RARS Bi-weekly Race Report & News About Upcoming Races August 2nd, 1998 RARS is the Robot Auto Racing Simulation, a competition for programmers and an on-going challenge for practicioners of Artificial Intelligence and real-time adaptive optimal control. It consists of a simulation of the physics of cars racing on a track, a graphic display of the race, and a separate control program (robot "driver") for each car. All RARS software and activities are free and open to the public. It runs on DOS, Windows, OS/2, UNIX, Linux, and several other platforms. For more information e-mail to mindwarp@cftnet.com or rscott@netusa.net. Or visit the Rars website at http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm Contents Submissions Todays Races Preliminary lap times Race Report Authors Point Standings Upcoming Races Comments -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions Please! Any people who want to submit for the first time please give yourselves more than a day or two (I made that mistake when I started). Submissions are to be SOURCE CODE only. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races: August 2nd, No. of races 2 Tracks: Hock (alternate Speed2 and Watkins) Miles: not less than 300 (alternates 150) Software version: 0.67 Surface Type: 1 no practice, random starting order. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Race Notes: 13 cars for 74 laps. The track was hock.trk. The drivers were: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCar, Eagle, and Sarah. The initial RVG seed was 22107. results of race 1: starting positions: WappuCar, Apex8, Burns2, Sarah, Herbie, Bulle, Blender, Eagle, Spider, ralph2a, RW, Apex81, and Jas. 1 Spider avg spd 91.9 74 laps 3906 damage 9 fuel 10 pts accum 2 Bulle avg spd 90.37 74 laps 244 damage 149 fuel 6 pts accum 3 Apex8 avg spd 89.12 72 laps 16653 damage 21 fuel 4 pts accum 4 Burns2 avg spd 88.28 72 laps 12055 damage 119 fuel 3 pts accum 5 Jas avg spd 87.45 71 laps 12000 damage 146 fuel 2 pts accum 6 Herbie avg spd 85.36 69 laps 12000 damage 140 fuel 1 pts accum 7 ralph2a avg spd 90.26 68 laps 30186 damage 106 fuel 0 pts accum 8 Sarah avg spd 83.71 68 laps 0 damage 148 fuel 0 pts accum 9 Blender avg spd 78.36 64 laps 12015 damage 119 fuel 0 pts accum 10 WappuCar avg spd 69.83 57 laps 12000 damage 148 fuel 0 pts accum 11 RW avg spd 80.46 27 laps 347915 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 12 Apex81 avg spd 77.56 25 laps 32099 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 13 Eagle avg spd 37.57 12 laps 173627 damage 149 fuel 0 pts accum 13 cars for 44 laps. The track was watglen.trk. The drivers were: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCar, Eagle, and Sarah. The initial RVG seed was 41917. results of race 1: starting positions: Apex81, RW, Jas, Eagle, ralph2a, Blender, Burns2, WappuCar, Sarah, Apex8, Spider, Bulle, and Herbie. 1 Eagle avg spd 90.22 44 laps 1429 damage 116 fuel 10 pts accum 2 WappuCar avg spd 88.83 44 laps 780 damage 99 fuel 6 pts accum 3 Bulle avg spd 88.52 44 laps 9420 damage 80 fuel 4 pts accum 4 ralph2a avg spd 87.5 43 laps 18554 damage 103 fuel 3 pts accum 5 Jas avg spd 87.01 43 laps 7995 damage 107 fuel 2 pts accum 6 Apex8 avg spd 86.39 43 laps 15307 damage 96 fuel 1 pts accum 7 Apex81 avg spd 85.13 42 laps 11258 damage 109 fuel 0 pts accum 8 Spider avg spd 82.14 41 laps 252 damage 44 fuel 0 pts accum 9 Burns2 avg spd 57.8 29 laps 12000 damage 149 fuel 0 pts accum 10 RW avg spd 43.74 14 laps 30951 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 11 Sarah avg spd 77.92 3 laps 30204 damage 131 fuel 0 pts accum 12 Blender avg spd 78.45 1 laps 30212 damage 140 fuel 0 pts accum 13 Herbie avg spd 0 0 laps 30251 damage 146 fuel 0 pts accum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Points for Day Driver Races Last 5 new->old Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph 3 3 0.0 3.5 8.0 4.0 4.0 19.5 Jas 2 2 4 1.0 10.0 3.0 0.0 1.0 15.0 Sarah 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Apex 4 1 5 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 11.0 Blender 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Burns 3 3 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 Wappucar 6 6 3.0 3.5 8.0 3.0 10.0 27.5 Bulle 6 4 10 6.6 1.0 4.0 10.0 6.0 27.6 Eagle 10 10 6.6 6.0 1.0 6.0 1.0 20.6 RW 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Herbie 1 1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Spider 10 10 6.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the point standings. Marc Gueury 27.6 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jussi Pajala 27.5 pts (Finland) Wappucar Jerry Donovan 20.6 pts (USA) Eagle, Hawk Ralph Scott 19.5 pts (USA) Ralph2a Jurgen Sang 15 pts (Germany) Jas Maido Remm 11 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex81 Tom Pycke 6.6 pts (Belgium) Spider Safai Ma 1 pts (Canada) Burns Daniel Ash 0 pts (USA) Sarah Robert Wildespin 0 pts (UK) RW Carl Burke 0 pts (USA) Blender Mario Aleksic 0 pts Herbie -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the RARS address book. Juergen Sang jusa@darkstar.bb.bawue.de Daniel Ash deash@primenet.com Maido Remm mremm@ebc.ee Marc Gueury marc.gueury@skynet.be Jerry Donovan Donovan@webaccess.net Tom Pycke Tom.Pycke@advalvas.be Upcoming RARS Race Meets RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1, v.67) New season.... 16 August Hungary Budapest hungary.trk 30 August Belgium Spa-Francorchamps spa.trk 13 September Italy Monza monza.trk 27 September Luxembourg Nurburgring nurburg.trk 11 October Portugal Estoril ?estoril.trk? 1 November Japan Suzuka suzuka.trk -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments from Ralph We have a new contestant this week. Spider is a short driver submitted by Tom Pycke from Belgium. Spider is moderately fast and apparently in beta. I do not know if it is public or not. Like most new drivers, Spider did real well, at least on Hockenheim. My car is different this week in the sense that I removed most other car avoidance. Bad move on my part. I accidently ran hockenheim twice. The results of both races were real similar but I didn't keep the results for the first race. How many times have we run Watkins Glen in a row??