RARS Bi-weekly Race Report & News About Upcoming Races September 27th, 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 27th, No. of races 2 Tracks: Nurburg (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 107 laps. The track was nurburg.trk. The drivers were: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCar, Hawk, Sarah, Lisa, and lisa. The initial RVG seed was 27172. results of race 1: starting positions: Apex8, Apex81, Sarah, Burns2, Spider, Blender, RW, ralph2a, Hawk, WappuCar, lisa, Bulle, Lisa, Herbie, and Jas. 1 Spider avg spd 77.6 107 laps 0 damage 144 fuel 10 pts accum 2 Jas avg spd 77.24 106 laps 30057 damage 109 fuel 6 pts accum 3 Apex81 avg spd 75.33 104 laps 15270 damage 41 fuel 4 pts accum 4 lisa avg spd 74.56 103 laps 17203 damage 50 fuel 3 pts accum 5 Blender avg spd 71.03 98 laps 12000 damage 113 fuel 2 pts accum 6 RW avg spd 68.81 96 laps 8000 damage 149 fuel 1 pts accum 7 Herbie avg spd 75.07 94 laps 30060 damage 146 fuel 0 pts accum 8 WappuCar avg spd 78.22 53 laps 30083 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 9 Apex8 avg spd 81.2 52 laps 30057 damage 77 fuel 0 pts accum 10 Sarah avg spd 62.13 42 laps 30058 damage 129 fuel 0 pts accum 11 Lisa avg spd 80.61 35 laps 30081 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 12 Burns2 avg spd 67.62 21 laps 30091 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 13 Bulle avg spd 81.53 17 laps 30132 damage 74 fuel 0 pts accum 14 ralph2a avg spd 83.15 12 laps 30369 damage 101 fuel 0 pts accum 15 Hawk avg spd 87.26 9 laps 30191 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 15 cars for 44 laps. The track was watglen.trk. The drivers were: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCar, Hawk, Sarah, Lisa, and lisa. The initial RVG seed was 46747. results of race 1: starting positions: Jas, RW, Sarah, ralph2a, Apex8, Lisa, Burns2, Spider, WappuCar, Blender, Bulle, Herbie, Hawk, Apex81, and lisa. 1 WappuCar avg spd 89.45 44 laps 11866 damage 98 fuel 10 pts accum 2 Jas avg spd 86.02 43 laps 5586 damage 110 fuel 6 pts accum 3 Bulle avg spd 86.04 43 laps 15151 damage 84 fuel 4 pts accum 4 Apex8 avg spd 85.96 43 laps 3447 damage 97 fuel 3 pts accum 5 Herbie avg spd 85.09 42 laps 7933 damage 5 fuel 2 pts accum 6 Apex81 avg spd 84.08 42 laps 425 damage 112 fuel 1 pts accum 7 Lisa avg spd 84.07 42 laps 9775 damage 124 fuel 0 pts accum 8 Hawk avg spd 83.97 42 laps 8955 damage 108 fuel 0 pts accum 9 lisa avg spd 83.97 42 laps 66 damage 85 fuel 0 pts accum 10 Spider avg spd 82.63 41 laps 8288 damage 37 fuel 0 pts accum 11 Burns2 avg spd 57.98 29 laps 12000 damage 149 fuel 0 pts accum 12 ralph2a avg spd 87.02 11 laps 30178 damage 101 fuel 0 pts accum 13 Sarah avg spd 57.64 4 laps 30007 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 14 Blender avg spd 0 0 laps 30485 damage 144 fuel 0 pts accum 15 RW avg spd 0 0 laps 33218 damage 144 fuel 0 pts accum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Points for Day Driver Races Last 5 new->old Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph 0.0 0.0 1.5 1.0 0.0 2.5 Jas 6 6 12 10.0 5.0 1.5 0.0 1.0 17.5 Sarah 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Apex 4 3 7 3.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 2.0 7.5 Blender 2 2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Burns 0.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 3.0 Wappucar 10 10 5.0 0.0 5.0 8.0 3.0 21.0 Bulle 4 4 1.5 5.0 10.0 3.0 6.6 26.1 Eagle 0.0 0.0 4.0 6.6 6.0 16.6 RW 1 1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Herbie 2 2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Spider 10 10 5.0 2.5 3.0 8.0 6.6 25.1 Lisa 3 1 4 1.5 10.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 16.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the point standings. Marc Gueury 26.1 pts (Belgium) Bulle Tom Pycke 25.1 pts (Belgium) Spider Jussi Pajala 21.0 pts (Finland) Wappucar Jurgen Sang 17.5 pts (Germany) Jas Jerry Donovan 16.6 pts (USA) Eagle, Hawk Henning Klaskala 16.5 pts (Germany) Lisa Maido Remm 7.5 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex81 Safai Ma 3 pts (Canada) Burns Ralph Scott 2.5 pts (USA) Ralph2a 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.... 1 November Japan Suzuka suzuka.trk -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments from Ralph I am not sure why there was so much damage accumulated in Nurburg. RW was slow on the long curve and that may have hurt the speed demons. The track has some tricky s-curves that always screwed up my car. But from what I could see, the cars were randomly strewn throughout the track.