RARS Bi-weekly Race Report & News About Upcoming Races August 30th, 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: 15 cars for 70 laps. The track was spa.trk. The drivers were: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCar, Eagle, Sarah, Lisa, and lisa. The initial RVG seed was 7854. results of race 1: starting positions: Lisa, Eagle, Bulle, Spider, Jas, Apex81, ralph2a, Apex8, Sarah, lisa, RW, Herbie, Blender, WappuCar, and Burns2. 1 Lisa avg spd 84.21 70 laps 13307 damage 2 fuel 10 pts 2 Spider avg spd 83.96 70 laps 731 damage 128 fuel 6 pts 3 WappuCar avg spd 82.88 70 laps 12000 damage 140 fuel 4 pts 4 lisa avg spd 82.62 70 laps 363 damage 148 fuel 3 pts 5 Bulle avg spd 82.93 69 laps 8049 damage 100 fuel 2 pts 6 ralph2a avg spd 82.79 69 laps 13401 damage 65 fuel 1 pts 7 Jas avg spd 82.09 69 laps 12104 damage 76 fuel 0 pts 8 Apex81 avg spd 81.21 68 laps 339 damage 71 fuel 0 pts 9 Apex8 avg spd 80.44 67 laps 311 damage 123 fuel 0 pts 10 Herbie avg spd 79.7 67 laps 12088 damage 54 fuel 0 pts 11 Burns2 avg spd 45.58 12 laps 30131 damage 145 fuel 0 pts 12 Sarah avg spd 44.2 2 laps 8 damage 140 fuel 0 pts 13 Blender avg spd 0 0 laps 30246 damage 147 fuel 0 pts 14 Eagle avg spd 0 0 laps 30546 damage 147 fuel 0 pts 15 RW avg spd 0 0 laps 30010 damage 147 fuel 0 pts 15 cars for 44 laps. The track was watglen.trk. The drivers were: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCar, Eagle, Sarah, Lisa, and lisa. The initial RVG seed was 30443. results of race 1: starting positions: Spider, Sarah, lisa, Lisa, Apex81, ralph2a, Herbie, Burns2, Eagle, Apex8, WappuCar, Blender, RW, Bulle, and Jas. 1 Bulle avg spd 88.9 44 laps 12963 damage 77 fuel 10 pts 2 WappuCar avg spd 87.98 44 laps 13416 damage 88 fuel 6 pts 3 Jas avg spd 85.88 43 laps 10040 damage 107 fuel 4 pts 4 ralph2a avg spd 83.87 42 laps 1226 damage 110 fuel 3 pts 5 Eagle avg spd 81.71 41 laps 8961 damage 111 fuel 2 pts 6 Apex81 avg spd 80.91 41 laps 485 damage 117 fuel 1 pts 7 Spider avg spd 78.01 39 laps 8395 damage 120 fuel 0 pts 8 Lisa avg spd 86.67 29 laps 30017 damage 0 fuel 0 pts 9 Burns2 avg spd 57.34 29 laps 12000 damage 149 fuel 0 pts 10 lisa avg spd 80.68 27 laps 45155 damage 53 fuel 0 pts 11 RW avg spd 40.77 19 laps 31023 damage 0 fuel 0 pts 12 Sarah avg spd 68.43 16 laps 30273 damage 136 fuel 0 pts 13 Blender avg spd 0 0 laps 30321 damage 144 fuel 0 pts 14 Apex8 avg spd 0 0 laps 30040 damage 148 fuel 0 pts 15 Herbie avg spd 0 0 laps 44062 damage 149 fuel 0 pts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Points for Day Driver Races Last 5 new->old Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph 2 3 5 1.5 1.0 0.0 3.5 8.0 14.0 Jas 1 4 5 1.5 0.0 1.0 10.0 3.0 15.5 Sarah 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Apex 1 1 0.0 0.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 6.0 Blender 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Burns 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 Wappucar 4 6 10 5.0 8.0 3.0 3.5 8.0 27.5 Bulle 3 10 13 10.0 3.0 6.6 1.0 4.0 24.6 Eagle 2 2 0.0 4.0 6.6 6.0 1.0 17.6 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 6 6 3.0 8.0 6.6 0.0 0.0 14.6 Lisa 10 10 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the point standings. Jussi Pajala 27.5 pts (Finland) Wappucar Marc Gueury 24.6 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jerry Donovan 17.6 pts (USA) Eagle, Hawk Jurgen Sang 15.5 pts (Germany) Jas Tom Pycke 14.6 pts (Belgium) Spider Ralph Scott 14.0 pts (USA) Ralph2a Maido Remm 6 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex81 Safai Ma 2 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 Henning Klaskala 5 pts (Germany) Lisa -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Henning Klaskala bm321465@muenchen.org Upcoming RARS Race Meets RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1, v.67) New season.... 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 There were many high damage races. One or more cars locked up on Spa. I wound up restarting 3-4 times. But each time there were huge damages. We have a new/old competitor in Henning. His car is public if everyone elses is. I am not sure if Maidos or Jeurgens is. Other than that, I believe all cars are public. I will upload the spider from last race to the website. Public cars are uploaded 1 race session later. Again I apologize for the lack of movie files. After this season, I will try to get things to change.