Robot Sumo: The Official Guide [Paperback]

Pete Miles (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Official Guide | Publication Date: October 10, 2002

A complete guide to Robot Sumo, the hot new game that is gaining momentum among robot fanatics across the world. Read about the rules and regulations of this sport, and learn how to build your own Sumo Bot!

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From the Back Cover

Plan, design, and build your own Sumo bot!

Create powerful and innovative Sumo or Mini-Sumo robots using this one-of-a-kind resource. Featuring complete coverage of the rules and regulations of this increasingly popular competitive sport, this authoritative guide will show you what it takes to build a Sumo robot from beginning to end. Packed with helpful diagrams, schematics, sample programs, and action photos of robots from around the world, this book explains where to get the best parts and components for your bot, building specifications for the Dohyo (the Sumo ring), gearing and traction methods, motors, speed controllers, high quality sensors, programming strategies for robotic combat, and much more. Now you can experience the excitement of the fastest-growing robot sport in the world!

• Learn the definitive rules to Robot Sumo, the fastest-growing amateur robotics competition in the world
• Find out where to get good quality robot parts
• Understand how motors work, select the right motor for your robot, and learn to control it
• Turn your robot into a remote-control bot using radio control components
• Build and use a wide variety of sensors, well-suited for Robot Sumo
• Optimize offensive and defensive skills in your robot through different programming strategies
• Learn valuable tricks to give your Sumo robot the competitive edge

About the Author

Pete Miles (Graham, WA) has been experimenting with robots since the mid 1970s. Miles holds a Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of Washington. He is currently working as a senior research engineer for Ormond LLC in Kent, Washington. Miles is an active member of the Seattle Robotics Society, the world's largest robotics club, and was recently appointed to the SRS Board of Directors. Miles has been competing in Robot Sumo since the late 1990s, and his robots have placed in the top three positions at the Northwest Robot Sumo Tournament, the Seattle Robothon, and tournaments in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. Miles is the only roboticist to date who's built and competed with walking Sumo robots.

Product Details

• Paperback: 376 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill (October 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007222617X
• ISBN-13: 978-0072226171
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,165,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is the book to start with for competition sumo robots, October 30, 2002

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DJ Sandberg (Beaverton, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Robot Sumo: The Official Guide (Paperback)

This is an excellent book on sumo robots. It takes you all the way from building your first sumo robot to construction of the battle rings.

Lots of pictures and lots of solid technical information. This book is a must have you want to build a sumo robot or want to improve a robot you've already built.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Hands-on How-to Robot Book!, October 19, 2002

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Tom Dickens (Issaquah, Washington United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Robot Sumo: The Official Guide (Paperback)

This is a must-have text for every robot builder; generously full of inspiring ideas, pictures, circuits, diagrams, techniques, and strategies.

With one or more pictures or diagrams on almost every page, Pete's "Robot Sumo" guide details and explains in a clear and easy-to-understand way the various technologies, techniques, and tricks involved in building sumo robots (which can also be applied to other types of robots). The abundance of pictures and diagrams expose the mystery of these fighting robots through 16 well-organized chapters, allowing the reader to easily grasp the ideas with enough detail to be able to easily incorporate them into their own robotic projects. This text is appropriate to all ranges, from the beginner to robotics looking for a place to start through the seasoned robot builder looking for advanced techniques. There are details for radio-controlled robots as well as a wealth of information on autonomous robots. The text also has a very comprehensive index to allow you to quickly locate specific material, plus two appendices full of references. I just got my copy of the book today and I have already discovered many useful construction techniques that I plan to incorporate in my own robots.

This is the best single-source of robot-building information on the market today!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb! - Good for Robot Sumo and other types of robots too, October 28, 2002

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Dave Hylands (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Robot Sumo: The Official Guide (Paperback)

I read this book from cover to cover, and I have to say that it's an excellent book (and I'm not just saying that because my robot Marauder has a picture in the book).

This is the book I wish that I had when I got started.

I highly recommend it.