[NXT] 2012 IEEE Tournement Sumo Winner

[NXT45]

The Robot:

Model of a Lego Mindstorms NXT Sumo bot. The object of the sumo game: Push the other robot out of the ring. The objectives of our creation was to be low to the ground and still have all of the required functions.

Completion date: 29/04/2012

Power: electric (NXT brick)

Language: NXT-G

Bricks: 1

Motors: 2 x NXT motor

Sensors: Ultrasonic, Color

Parts: Approx: 297

More reading. https://nxt45.wordpr...ent-sumo-winner

Edited June 6, 2016 by NXT45

[Moz]

It looks interesting, seems you traded speed for traction? And a lot of the effort is getting the code to work, based on the number of fails I saw :)

I can't find it on YouTube, but there's this

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[NXT45]

It looks interesting, seems you traded speed for traction? And a lot of the effort is getting the code to work, based on the number of fails I saw :)

I can't find it on YouTube, but there's this

and a

Yes, my team wanted our robot to have traction to push the opponent out of the ring. So that was the trade off: speed or traction.

I don't understand what you mean by "And a lot of the effort is getting the code to work, based on the number of fails I saw :)".