RARS Bi-weekly Race Report & News About Upcoming Races August 16th, 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 16th, No. of races 2 Tracks: Hungary (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 122 laps. The track was hungary.trk. The drivers were: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCar, Eagle, and Sarah. The initial RVG seed was 61628. results of race 1: starting positions: Blender, RW, Spider, Herbie, Burns2, Apex8, Eagle, Sarah, ralph2a, WappuCar, Bulle, Apex81, and Jas. 1 WappuCar avg spd 70.31 122 laps 12717 damage 93 fuel 10 pts accum 2 Bulle avg spd 70 122 laps 16978 damage 57 fuel 6 pts accum 3 Burns2 avg spd 67.98 118 laps 12000 damage 138 fuel 4 pts accum 4 Spider avg spd 68.26 118 laps 376 damage 72 fuel 3 pts accum 5 Apex8 avg spd 65.97 114 laps 16967 damage 59 fuel 2 pts accum 6 Apex81 avg spd 63.83 111 laps 5413 damage 64 fuel 1 pts accum 7 Eagle avg spd 61.95 71 laps 30036 damage 69 fuel 0 pts accum 8 ralph2a avg spd 71.74 48 laps 30313 damage 126 fuel 0 pts accum 9 Herbie avg spd 65.01 24 laps 30071 damage 111 fuel 0 pts accum 10 RW avg spd 59.99 21 laps 41247 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 11 Blender avg spd 29.95 14 laps 30086 damage 145 fuel 0 pts accum 12 Sarah avg spd 0 0 laps 0 damage 146 fuel 0 pts accum 13 Jas avg spd 0 0 laps 30378 damage 146 fuel 0 pts accum 13 cars for 70 laps. The track was speed2.trk. The drivers were: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCar, Eagle, and Sarah. The initial RVG seed was 9889. results of race 1: starting positions: ralph2a, Bulle, Eagle, Apex8, Blender, Burns2, Spider, RW, Sarah, Jas, Herbie, WappuCar, and Apex81. 1 Spider avg spd 96.7 70 laps 13538 damage 18 fuel 10 pts accum 2 Eagle avg spd 100.8 69 laps 33494 damage 104 fuel 6 pts accum 3 WappuCar avg spd 94.93 69 laps 13389 damage 118 fuel 4 pts accum 4 ralph2a avg spd 90.62 66 laps 20857 damage 146 fuel 3 pts accum 5 Jas avg spd 87.57 64 laps 12301 damage 137 fuel 2 pts accum 6 Blender avg spd 86.89 63 laps 12389 damage 105 fuel 1 pts accum 7 RW avg spd 81.84 60 laps 8074 damage 143 fuel 0 pts accum 8 Bulle avg spd 105.6 43 laps 99117 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 9 Sarah avg spd 76.71 31 laps 38209 damage 149 fuel 0 pts accum 10 Burns2 avg spd 96.16 22 laps 30218 damage 86 fuel 0 pts accum 11 Herbie avg spd 100.8 21 laps 33983 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 12 Apex8 avg spd 95.81 16 laps 31858 damage 98 fuel 0 pts accum 13 Apex81 avg spd 48.19 11 laps 30928 damage 137 fuel 0 pts accum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Points for Day Driver Races Last 5 new->old Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph 3 3 1.0 0.0 3.5 8.0 4.0 16.5 Jas 2 2 0.0 1.0 10.0 3.0 0.0 14.0 Sarah 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Apex 2 2 0.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 8.0 Blender 1 1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Burns 4 4 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.0 Wappucar 10 4 14 8.0 3.0 3.5 8.0 3.0 25.5 Bulle 6 6 3.0 6.6 1.0 4.0 10.0 24.6 Eagle 1 6 7 4.0 6.6 6.0 1.0 6.0 23.6 RW 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Herbie 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Spider 3 10 14 8.0 6.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the point standings. Jussi Pajala 25.5 pts (Finland) Wappucar Marc Gueury 24.6 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jerry Donovan 23.6 pts (USA) Eagle, Hawk Ralph Scott 16.5 pts (USA) Ralph2a Tom Pycke 14.6 pts (Belgium) Spider Jurgen Sang 14 pts (Germany) Jas Maido Remm 8 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex81 Safai Ma 3 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.... 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 Hungary is a long race that slowly wore away at the competition. Wappucar was devastating on this track. Since wappucar is really on old version with pitting tacked on, he drives really well while in front but tends to do poorly once he's behind. Don't ask me why. He started out in front for Hungary and never looked back. Anyhow, I had gotten an update from Jussi at an old account which I couldn't decode. Imagine how good it would be then! Speed2 was an interesting race with fast cars and a amazing ending. Eagle was in front by 2-3 laps when he crashed at lap 69! I recently updated my computer to a PII 300. Rars on fast mode is too fast to follow with my eyes. With few cars (less than 6), I just watch the laps click by.