RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races August 15th, 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://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/index.html 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: August 15th No. of races 2 Tracks: hungary + extra (watglen) 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 22197. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on hungary.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 82.880 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 55.253 mph. 1 DougE1 82.880 mph 2 Viper2Hb 79.409 mph 3 JOCOSA78 79.180 mph 4 Bulle 78.167 mph 5 Vector 76.784 mph 6 Felix12 76.712 mph 7 Viper2Ha 75.105 mph 8 Djoefe 74.765 mph 9 Sarah 72.785 mph 10 Apex8 72.148 mph 11 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: hungary.trk. Race length was 301.82 miles, 485.72 kilometers. Track record was 82.88 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 120 118 79.31 82.71 10547 17 3 168 112 10 2 3 JOCOSA78 116 0 76.21 79.14 2023 33 3 50 83 6 3 6 Felix12 115 0 75.95 76.89 2008 8 2 17 78 4 4 2 Viper2Hb 115 2 75.78 79.18 16182 72 3 258 97 3 5 5 Vector 115 0 75.56 76.57 0 118 2 61 104 2 6 4 Bulle 114 0 75.14 78.13 12922 126 3 113 109 1 7 7 Viper2Ha 112 0 73.38 75.14 0 133 3 135 108 0 8 8 Djoefe 110 0 72.13 74.70 57 41 3 224 102 0 9 10 Apex8 108 0 70.90 72.53 5096 47 2 128 80 0 10 9 Sarah 108 0 70.89 73.40 11176 7 5 154 77 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 25966. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on watglen.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 96.107 mph by DougE1Time to qualify: 64.045 mph. 1 DougE1 96.067 mph 2 Bulle 92.746 mph 3 Viper2Hb 92.154 mph 4 JOCOSA78 92.044 mph 5 Djoefe 89.163 mph 6 Viper2Ha 89.094 mph 7 Vector 88.991 mph 8 Felix12 88.820 mph 9 Apex8 88.141 mph 10 Sarah 87.539 mph 11 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: watglen.trk. Race length was 151.32 miles, 243.51 kilometers. Track record was 96.11 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 43 43 93.45 95.87 8725 25 1 16 33 10 2 2 Bulle -133. 0 91.36 92.67 3546 84 1 7 30 6 3 3 Viper2Hb 42 0 90.61 91.97 3109 75 1 14 28 4 4 5 Djoefe 41 0 88.50 89.44 1328 16 1 2 33 3 5 6 Viper2Ha 41 0 88.11 88.99 1352 100 1 10 31 2 6 4 JOCOSA78 41 0 88.11 91.79 126 96 1 13 30 1 7 9 Apex8 41 0 87.78 88.58 1960 25 1 6 32 0 8 7 Vector 41 0 87.73 88.89 0 140 1 17 39 0 9 8 Felix12 41 0 87.71 88.85 820 46 1 10 31 0 10 10 Sarah 40 0 86.75 87.84 411 85 2 11 29 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viper2Hb 3 2 5 Viper2Ha 0 1 1 Vector 2 0 2 DougE1 10 5 15 Felix 4 0 4 Apex8 0 0 0 Apex1 0 0 0 Djoefe 0 1.5 1.5 Bulle 1 3 4 JOCOSA78 6 0.5 6.5 Sarah 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Standings Doug Eleveld 149.5 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix12 Marc Gueury 61.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jussi Palaja 52.5 pts (Finland) Vector Tom Pycke 32.5 pts (Belgium) Viper2H, Viper2c Maido Remm 24.5 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Jorge Cervantes 22.5 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA78 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 20.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Daniel Ash 3.0 pts (USA) Sarah ------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 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 I've updated the old 'season-99' site by Tom Pycke and moved it over to a new and hopefully reliable address. An announcement was posted into relevant usenet groups. The race rules were updated and there is an archive of all results of the current season. I'm planning to add a "download" section with the latest cars too. Updated/new cars: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/viper2h.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/djoefe.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/apex8.zip Movies are at: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/hungary.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/watglen.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo