RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races May 30th, 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://members.xoom.com/rars_races 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: May 30th No. of races 2 Tracks: Barcelon + extra (indy500) Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.72 Surface Type: 1 no practice, 2 qualification laps ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.72 9 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 4884. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on barcelon.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 86.876 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 44.443 mph. 1 Vector 88.886 mph 2 DougE1 88.725 mph 3 Bulle 85.698 mph 4 Felix12 84.260 mph 5 Spider2 81.797 mph 6 Apex8 80.355 mph 7 Viper2c 79.507 mph 8 Djoefe 77.802 mph damage 1630 9 Apex1 41.968 mph DNQ: 1 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: barcelon.trk. Race length was 301.74 miles, 485.58 kilometers. Track record was 88.89 mph by Vector F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 2 DougE1 101 70 86.37 88.68 2273 47 2 52 77 10 2 1 Vector -118. 31 85.56 87.65 4928 60 2 74 77 6 3 3 Bulle 99 0 84.45 85.70 3695 141 3 21 98 4 4 4 Felix12 98 0 83.36 84.33 940 7 2 24 66 3 5 5 Spider2 95 0 80.93 82.17 4275 37 3 47 90 2 6 6 Apex8 94 0 79.98 81.09 1880 10 2 19 64 1 7 7 Viper2c 93 0 78.68 79.60 3661 21 2 29 64 0 8 8 Djoefe 92 0 78.24 79.35 8326 32 2 23 66 0 RARS version 0.72 9 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 6800. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on indy500.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 133.97 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 67.648 mph. 1 DougE1 135.30 mph 2 Bulle 135.07 mph 3 Apex1 130.87 mph 4 Djoefe 129.02 mph 5 Felix12 127.61 mph 6 Apex8 127.61 mph 7 Vector 127.41 mph 8 Viper2c 125.94 mph 9 Spider2 106.76 mph damage 11270 _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: indy500.trk. Race length was 150.04 miles, 241.45 kilometers. Track record was 135.3 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 2 Bulle 60 52 128.6 134.7 5658 120 1 7 51 10 2 3 Apex1 -57.9 4 126.9 130.9 8967 4 1 0 56 6 3 7 Vector -64.3 0 126.7 127.4 191 20 0 0 0 4 4 5 Felix12 59 0 126.1 127.2 3066 2 0 0 0 3 5 4 Djoefe 59 0 126.1 128.9 5749 5 1 0 58 2 6 6 Apex8 58 0 123.1 126.4 7286 11 1 1 53 1 7 8 Viper2c 57 0 122.1 125.9 354 128 1 22 50 0 8 1 DougE1 4 4 131.6 135.2 36123 138 0 0 0 0 9 9 Spider2 3 0 101.1 105.9 37955 138 0 0 0 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viper2c 0 0 0 Spider2 2 0 2 Vector 6 2 8 DougE1 10 0 10 Felix 3 1.5 4.5 Apex8 1 0.5 1.5 Apex1 0 3 3 Djoefe 0 1 1 Bulle 4 5 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Standings Doug Eleveld 63.5 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix12 Jussi Palaja 29.5 pts (Finland) Vector Marc Gueury 24.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle Tom Pycke 20.5 pts (Belgium) Viper2H, Viper2c Maido Remm 14.5 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 13.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe ------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 13th June Canada (Montreal) montreal.trk + extra 27th June France (Magny-Cours) magnycrs.trk + extra 11th July Great Britain (Silverstone) silver97.trk + extra 25th July Austria (A1-Ring) austria.trk + extra 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) track layout unknown 31st October Japan (Suzuka) suzuka.trk + extra -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments Updated cars: http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/vecto071.dat http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/spider2.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/djoefe.zip Movies are at: http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/barcelon.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/indy500.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo