RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races July 25th, 1999 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 GianCarlo.Pascutto@advalvas.be. Or visit the Rars websites at http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm and http://www.crosswinds.net/~rars (still not updated) 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. Submissions are to be SOURCE CODE only. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races: July 25th No. of races 2 Tracks: austria + extra (loudon) Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.74 Surface Type: 1 no practice, 2 qualification laps ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.74 Track surface type 1. 11 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 1168. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on austria.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 88.805 mph by Vector Time to qualify: 59.326 mph. 1 Vector 88.989 mph damage 373 2 JOCOSA78 87.060 mph 3 DougE1 86.320 mph 4 Bulle 85.678 mph 5 Felix12 84.011 mph 6 Djoefe 82.882 mph 7 Sarah 81.939 mph 8 Viper2H 81.245 mph 9 Viper2c 81.245 mph 10 Apex8 80.713 mph 11 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: austria.trk. Race length was 300.29 miles, 483.24 kilometers. Track record was 88.99 mph by Vector F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 3 DougE1 114 74 84.94 86.28 9880 9 2 23 78 10 2 2 JOCOSA78-77.2 0 84.43 87.06 1399 15 2 32 78 6 3 4 Bulle -106. 0 84.24 85.64 11087 132 3 21 110 4 4 5 Felix12 112 0 82.74 83.97 3227 4 2 32 75 3 5 6 Djoefe 110 0 81.77 82.84 6802 12 2 20 76 2 6 1 Vector 109 40 84.37 88.44 30016 50 2 177 82 1 7 7 Sarah 109 0 80.64 82.17 44 46 3 75 100 0 8 9 Viper2c 108 0 79.81 81.67 0 136 3 76 105 0 9 8 Viper2H 107 0 79.67 81.55 1175 137 3 78 105 0 10 10 Apex8 36 0 80.26 81.36 0 0 1 31 36 0 RARS version 0.74 Track surface type 1. 11 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 2523. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on loudon.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 93.813 mph by H2Time to qualify: 62.364 mph. 1 DougE1 93.546 mph 2 Bulle 92.103 mph 3 Apex1 91.717 mph 4 Sarah 89.590 mph 5 Apex8 88.742 mph 6 Felix12 88.742 mph 7 JOCOSA78 88.029 mph 8 Viper2H 87.911 mph 9 Viper2c 86.864 mph 10 Djoefe 86.750 mph 11 Vector 73.620 mph damage 3889 _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: loudon.trk. Race length was 150.22 miles, 241.74 kilometers. Track record was 93.81 mph by H2 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 3 Apex1 150 27 87.30 92.36 253 14 1 46 107 10 2 6 Felix12 149 20 86.16 88.86 597 17 1 27 127 6 3 7 JOCOSA78 148 0 85.86 87.91 6768 116 1 9 122 4 4 5 Apex8 148 0 85.65 88.86 2709 16 1 42 107 3 5 2 Bulle 146 0 84.71 91.46 13605 45 1 61 85 2 6 8 Viper2H 145 0 84.05 87.68 8766 16 1 101 61 1 7 4 Sarah 142 0 82.30 90.45 2348 111 3 204 119 0 8 10 Djoefe 139 0 80.67 86.98 2318 16 2 203 111 0 9 1 DougE1 103 103 89.14 93.41 35465 1 1 0 104 0 10 9 Viper2c 96 0 83.05 86.75 46976 141 1 64 92 0 11 11 Vector 87 0 50.63 76.81 21883 149 10 1098 87 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viper2c 0 0 0 Viper2H 0 0.5 0.5 Vector 1 0 1 DougE1 10 0 10 Felix 3 3 6 Apex8 0 1.5 1.5 Apex1 0 5 5 Djoefe 2 0 2 Bulle 4 1 5 JOCOSA78 6 2 8 Sarah 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Standings Doug Eleveld 119.5 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix12 Marc Gueury 51.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jussi Palaja 50.5 pts (Finland) Vector Tom Pycke 25.5 pts (Belgium) Viper2H, Viper2c Maido Remm 21.5 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 18.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Jorge Cervantes 12.0 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA78 Daniel Ash 1.0 pts (USA) Sarah ------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 1st August Germany (Hockenheim) hock.trk + extra 15th August Hungary (Hungaroring) hungary.trk + extra 29th August Belgium (Spa) spa.trk + extra 12th Septmber Italy (Monza) monza-76.trk + extra 26th September Europe (Nurburgring) nurnburg.trk + extra 17th October Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) sepang1.trk + extra 31st October Japan (Suzuka) suzuka.trk + extra -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments Updated/new cars: none - well, Djoefe had an optimized parameter set - send me a mail if you really need it Movies are at: http://www.crosswinds.net/~rars/austria.zip http://www.crosswinds.net/~rars/loudon.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo