RARS Bi-weekly Race Report & News About Upcoming Races September 13th, 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: September 13th, No. of races 2 Tracks: Monza (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 84 laps. The track was monza-76.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 26610. results of race 1: starting positions: Lisa, Sarah, Herbie, Spider, Burns2, Apex81, RW, Apex8, Eagle, WappuCar, Bulle, Jas, ralph2a, Blender, and lisa. 1 lisa avg spd 90.98 84 laps 17760 damage 61 fuel 10 pts 2 Lisa avg spd 89.28 83 laps 1640 damage 92 fuel 6 pts 3 Apex81 avg spd 87.8 82 laps 7565 damage 54 fuel 4 pts 4 Jas avg spd 86.33 80 laps 12000 damage 142 fuel 3 pts 5 Burns2 avg spd 83.7 78 laps 12119 damage 123 fuel 2 pts 6 Spider avg spd 82.84 77 laps 0 damage 126 fuel 1 pts 7 Sarah avg spd 82.09 76 laps 0 damage 146 fuel 0 pts 8 RW avg spd 78.59 73 laps 8000 damage 147 fuel 0 pts 9 Bulle avg spd 91.29 69 laps 30188 damage 6 fuel 0 pts 10 ralph2a avg spd 97.34 69 laps 30345 damage 23 fuel 0 pts 11 WappuCar avg spd 96.31 38 laps 32522 damage 149 fuel 0 pts 12 Apex8 avg spd 91.35 23 laps 32385 damage 33 fuel 0 pts 13 Blender avg spd 51.76 13 laps 42563 damage 147 fuel 0 pts 14 Eagle avg spd 60.09 3 laps 30378 damage 145 fuel 0 pts 15 Herbie avg spd 0 0 laps 30362 damage 0 fuel 0 pts 15 cars for 70 laps. The track was speed2.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 5622. results of race 1: starting positions: Eagle, Apex81, lisa, Herbie, Blender, ralph2a, Burns2, RW, Lisa, Bulle, Sarah, Spider, Jas, WappuCar, and Apex8. 1 Bulle avg spd 99.41 70 laps 12130 damage 49 fuel 10 pts 2 Jas avg spd 96.37 68 laps 4164 damage 101 fuel 6 pts 3 Spider avg spd 93.12 66 laps 1876 damage 86 fuel 4 pts 4 lisa avg spd 91.64 65 laps 1186 damage 148 fuel 3 pts 5 Burns2 avg spd 90.81 64 laps 12000 damage 119 fuel 2 pts 6 Blender avg spd 89.62 64 laps 13931 damage 104 fuel 1 pts 7 RW avg spd 88.37 63 laps 9929 damage 101 fuel 0 pts 8 ralph2a avg spd 96.21 62 laps 31158 damage 78 fuel 0 pts 9 Apex8 avg spd 87.49 62 laps 1802 damage 140 fuel 0 pts 10 Sarah avg spd 75.91 54 laps 0 damage 139 fuel 0 pts 11 WappuCar avg spd 100.6 44 laps 33079 damage 105 fuel 0 pts 12 Lisa avg spd 95.98 42 laps 40795 damage 17 fuel 0 pts 13 Eagle avg spd 81.1 12 laps 58094 damage 145 fuel 0 pts 14 Herbie avg spd 75.76 12 laps 30039 damage 131 fuel 0 pts 15 Apex81 avg spd 47.66 7 laps 30069 damage 147 fuel 0 pts ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Points for Day Driver Races Last 5 new->old Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph 0.0 1.5 1.0 0.0 3.5 6.0 Jas 4 6 10 5.0 1.5 0.0 1.0 10.0 17.5 Sarah 1 1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Apex 6 6 2.5 0.0 0.0 2.0 2.0 6.5 Blender 1 1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Burns 3 2 5 1.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 Wappucar 0.0 5.0 8.0 3.0 3.5 19.5 Bulle 10 10 5.0 10.0 3.0 6.6 1.0 25.6 Eagle 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 2 4 6 2.5 3.0 8.0 6.6 0.0 21.1 Lisa 10 3 13 10.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the point standings. Marc Gueury 25.6 pts (Belgium) Bulle Tom Pycke 21.1 pts (Belgium) Spider Jussi Pajala 19.5 pts (Finland) Wappucar Jerry Donovan 17.6 pts (USA) Eagle, Hawk Jurgen Sang 17.5 pts (Germany) Jas Henning Klaskala 15 pts (Germany) Lisa Maido Remm 6.5 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex81 Ralph Scott 6.0 pts (USA) Ralph2a 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 Henning Klaskala bm321465@muenchen.org Upcoming RARS Race Meets RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1, v.67) New season.... 27 September Luxembourg Nurburgring nurburg.trk 1 November Japan Suzuka suzuka.trk -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments from Ralph Monza was not as one sided as it seemed. Lisa started with the lead and a scorching 109 mph average. But huge traffic slowed it down until wappucar passed it. Then wappucar crashed out and the lead changed many other times. I left the computer for a second and the race quickly changed its appearance. Speed2 had many changes in position as well. Again wappucar had the lead but lost it. Bulle took the lead and held on. Estoril will not be run so notice there is a month of rest. (whew!) Spider is finally on the website. I will put a new version of Ralph2 there too.