ROBO-ONE Light 10th Biped Robot Fight Tournament (Mar 14, 2015)

ROBO-ONE 26th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at Amyu-Atsugi in Atsugi City, Kanagawa Pref. on Mar 14th and 15th, 2015.    ROBO-ONE Light 10th took place on Feb 14th, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament on Sep 14th and the main event ROBO-ONE 26th Final Tournament took place on Sep 15th.

ROBO-ONE Light 10th

ROBO-ONE Light is a robot fight tournament for robots on the market, which are officially recognized by ROBO-ONE Committee. Beginner, who gets robot from the market and want to attend the ROBO-ONE Tournament, also can attend the competition with his robot which is made from just robot kit. Custom-built robot, just the weight 1 kg or under (UK1) also can attend the tournament.

The regulations are as follows;
1) Officially recognized robot regulation
Robots on the market, officially recognized by ROBO-ONE Committee, can attend the competition whether the robot adapt ROBO-ONE Light 10th regulation nor not. Remodeling is prohibited. Head parts can be remodeled and also covering robot body with plastic or paper is permitted.
2) Robot weight except for the officially recognized robot is 1 kg or under (UK1) and the robot has to adapt ROBO-ONE 26th regulation.

In the tournament, custom-built robots handicapped by about 500 g compared with officially recognized kits such as KHR-3HV.  It was interesting that how builder of custom robot UK1 overcame the weight handicap and which robot kit was able to win the tournament. However, it is necessary for getting championship of robot fight tournament to carry 3 important factors such as good body, good motion and good control.

Seventy-two robots joined the 10th tournament. The half of the robots joined were officially recognized robots such as KHR-3HV, DARwIn-mini and the half were custom-built robots UK1 (1kg or under).

Custom-built UK1 robots could overcome the weight handicap 500g.   The Champion was Simplefighter Light by Zeno, the 2nd place was Worst Juraru Queen by Daido University Robot Research Club and the 3rd place was Rhapsody by Kobe Science Technological High School.  The results are here.

All videos of ROBO-ONE Light 10th were uploaded to YouTube Channel by Ritsumeikan University Robot Technology Research Club.  Biped Robot Association also uploaded videos of the 10th to YouTube ROBO-ONE Channel. Sanzai-san reported the details of  the 10th in his blog (in Japanese).

Semifinal 1st Match; Rhapsody vs Worst Juraru Queen

The 23rd Robot Survival Game at Mokei-juku in Tokyo (Mar 29, 2015)

The 23rd Robot Survival Game took place at Mokei-juku in Tokyo on Mar 29, 2015.   Five robots as BLACK TIGER L46 (IKETOMU), Denryu (Gons) , Sakura-2gou (Yoshisda),  SR1 (SR-COM) and Tiger-kai2 joined the 23rd Survival Game.   All robots were controlled by camera system in all battles.



 

Eighteen Games such as 5 Combat Shooting, 2 Handicap Duel Fight, 4 Duel Fight, 5 Extermination Battle and 2 Battle Royal (Rumble Battle) were carried out in the 23rd.  All games of videos were uploaded to IKETOMU Channel .

Combat Shooting :
Combat shooting is a practice game for training of shoot skill.  Robot moves to the shooting place from the starting point and shoots the target. Robot has to go to the shooting place for easy shooting.  The target was a small can covered with aluminum foil.  Shooting of the center place of the target got bonus points.

Five robots joined the 23rd were as follows;

Combat Shooting 1: BLACK TIGER L46 (IKETOMU),  1 minute 54 seconds,  1 point.


Combat Shooting 2: Denryu (Gons), 18 seconds, 3 points


Combat Shooting 3: Sakura-2gou (Yoshida), 1 minute 21 seconds,  3 points

ROBO-ONE 26th Biped Robot Fight Tournamnt (Mar 14-15 , 2015)

ROBO-ONE 26th sponsored by Biped Robot Association, took place at Amyu-Atsugi in Atsugi City, Kanagawa Pref. on Mar 14th and 15th, 2015.    ROBO-ONE Light 10th took place on Feb 14th, 4.5m Footrace took place as the preliminary ROBO-ONE Tournament on Sep 14th and the main event ROBO-ONE 26th Final Tournament took place on Sep 15th.

Regulations of ROBO-ONE 26th
The major regulation was the weight of robot, which was 3 kg or under 3 kg.  Details of the body regulation were almost the same as those of the 25th.  Side punch has been prohibited since ROBO-ONE 23rd Tournament in the robot fight.

ROBO-ONE 26th was held as the tournament with 48 robots upper place robots in the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace including winners of the local robot competitions.

4.5 m Footrace
Four meters and 50 cm Footrace was carried out as the preliminary competition to select 48 robots and to decide the tournament order.  One hundred and twenty-two robots joined the preliminary 4.5 m Footrace.

Robots had to walk 4.5 m course with 90 cm width within 1 minute.  Since the 24rd,  thin rubbers under 2 mm was pasted on the board in the course.   Each robot time record taken 4.5 m walk, or the distance from start point if robot could not walk within 1 minute, or robot fell down from the course was recorded.

Each robot tried just one time Footrace. The 4.5 m course pasted with thin rubbers in the course, seemed to be not flat.  Therefore, it was not easy to walk through 4.5 m course for most of robots.    All robots walked the course within 1 minute, passed the preliminary competition.   The result of the preliminary 4.5 m Foot race is here.

The 1st place was Raptor by 11.26 seconds, the 2nd place was Blue thunder by 11.89 seconds and the 3rd place was Garoo by 12.40 seconds.

The 2nd place; Blue thunder


The 1st place;Raptor


Just 63 robots could reach the goal within 1 minute. Upper 16 robots were under 20 seconds, the 17th to 38th place robots were under 30 seconds and the 45th could join final fight by 33.46 seconds.

Videos of 4.5 m Foot Race were uploaded to Youtube Channel by Ritsumeikan University Robot Technology Research Club.  Sanzai-san also reported results (in Japanese).

ROBO-ONE 26th Tournament (3 kg or Under)

The tournament winner was HAUSER by Craftman.  The 2nd place was Garoo by Kumama.  The 3rd place was Neutrino-Giallo by Hida-Kamioka High School.   Result of the tournament is here.

All videos of ROBO-ONE 26th tournament were uploaded to Youtube ROBO-ONE Channel by  Biped Robot Association.  Sanzai-san also reported the details of  results.

Interesting videos of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd stage, quarterfinal, semifinal, for 3rd place and final matches were as follows;

The 1st Stage, 3rd Match: Simplefighter vs Ryuketsu-kamen
The winner was Simplefighter.