RARS Bi-weekly Race Report & News About Upcoming Races November 1st, 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: November 1st, No. of races 2 Tracks: Suzuka (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: Due to technical difficulties, the results file to suzuka was not obtainable. But I remember the order of the top 6. 1 Apex 2 Wappuca3 3 Spider 4 Burns 5 Jas 6 Lisa 15 cars for 70 laps. The track was speed2.trk. The drivers were: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCa3, Eagle, Sarah, Lisa, and lisa. The initial RVG seed was 70913. results of race 1: starting positions: ralph2a, Jas, Apex8, Apex81, Spider, Blender, Burns2, Bulle, RW, Herbie, WappuCa3, Eagle, Sarah, Lisa, and lisa. 1 Burns2 avg spd 89.96 70 laps 12679 damage 100 fuel 10 pts accum 2 Jas avg spd 89.25 70 laps 12000 damage 132 fuel 6 pts accum 3 Blender avg spd 88.58 69 laps 13756 damage 60 fuel 4 pts accum 4 Lisa avg spd 87.07 68 laps 352 damage 119 fuel 3 pts accum 5 ralph2a avg spd 93.02 66 laps 124492 damage 0 fuel 2 pts accum 6 Apex8 avg spd 84.43 65 laps 12037 damage 83 fuel 1 pts accum 7 RW avg spd 90.28 64 laps 179147 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 8 lisa avg spd 93.15 60 laps 31598 damage 22 fuel 0 pts accum 9 Sarah avg spd 63.68 41 laps 39774 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 10 Apex81 avg spd 46.61 33 laps 35044 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 11 Bulle avg spd 104.3 13 laps 54336 damage 0 fuel 0 pts accum 12 Spider avg spd 0 0 laps 131087 damage 146 fuel 0 pts accum 13 Eagle avg spd 0 0 laps 91445 damage 147 fuel 0 pts accum 14 Herbie avg spd 0 0 laps 44135 damage 148 fuel 0 pts accum 15 WappuCa3 avg spd 0 0 laps 30088 damage 146 fuel 0 pts accum ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Points for Day Driver Races Last 5 new->old Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph 2 2 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 1.0 2.5 Jas 2 6 8 4.0 10.0 5.0 1.5 0.0 20.5 Sarah 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Apex 10 1 11 6.0 3.0 2.5 0.0 0.0 11.5 Blender 4 4 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 Burns 3 10 13 10.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 13.0 Wappucar 6 6 3.0 5.0 0.0 5.0 8.0 21.0 Bulle 0.0 1.5 5.0 10.0 3.0 19.5 Eagle 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 6.6 10.6 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 4 4 1.0 5.0 2.5 3.0 8.0 19.5 Lisa 1 3 4 1.0 1.5 10.0 5.0 0.0 17.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the point standings. Jussi Pajala 21.0 pts (Finland) Wappucar Jurgen Sang 20.5 pts (Germany) Jas Marc Gueury 19.5 pts (Belgium) Bulle Tom Pycke 19.1 pts (Belgium) Spider Henning Klaskala 17.5 pts (Germany) Lisa Safai Ma 13 pts (Canada) Burns Maido Remm 11.5 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex81 Jerry Donovan 10.6 pts (USA) Eagle, Hawk Ralph Scott 2.5 pts (USA) Ralph2a Carl Burke 1 pts (USA) Blender Daniel Ash 0 pts (USA) Sarah Robert Wildespin 0 pts (UK) RW 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments from Ralph One of the cars seemed to crash my program at the last lap of Suzuka. Rather than figure out which one it was I just wrote the results down as they changed. A new version of wappucar was submitted this session. Actually, Jussi had submitted it almost a year ago, but to an old account of mine. I just recently found it and submitted it. It is described as private but I coaxed Jussi to make it public. Have fun.