RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races May 2nd, 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 2nd, No. of races 2 Tracks: Imola + extra (brands) 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 4862. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on imola.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 92.491 mph by Vector Time to qualify: 46.203 mph. 1 Vector 92.407 mph 2 DougE1 86.152 mph 3 Felix11 81.667 mph 4 Bulle 80.084 mph 5 Djoefe 76.165 mph 6 Viper2 75.343 mph 7 Apex8 74.210 mph 8 Spider 73.403 mph damage 2509 9 Apex1 57.623 mph damage 22407 _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: imola.trk. Race length was 302.44 miles, 486.71 kilometers. Track record was 92.49 mph by Vector F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 Vector 98 98 85.81 92.07 2523 123 3 316 91 10 2 2 DougE1 92 0 80.26 85.68 9482 65 4 317 85 6 3 3 Felix11 92 0 79.98 81.87 1075 15 2 60 63 4 4 4 Bulle 90 0 78.12 79.86 9014 138 3 21 88 3 5 7 Apex8 85 0 73.59 75.31 2880 29 2 39 60 2 6 5 Djoefe 84 0 73.28 77.09 18457 23 2 127 59 1 7 6 Viper2 84 0 73.05 75.37 2929 111 3 188 77 0 8 8 Spider 82 0 71.49 73.89 14275 7 3 205 55 0 9 9 Apex1 6 0 44.56 58.49 30003 134 2 266 4 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.72 9 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 6532. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on brands.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 91.757 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 45.878 mph. 1 DougE1 91.757 mph 2 Felix11 84.484 mph 3 Viper2 82.406 mph 4 Spider 81.749 mph 5 Djoefe 81.425 mph 6 Apex8 81.344 mph 7 Bulle 80.903 mph damage 4865 8 Vector 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps 9 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ Results of race 1: Track: brands.trk. Race length was 150.20 miles, 241.71 kilometers. Track record was 91.76 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 60 60 88.38 91.55 12381 30 1 25 44 10 2 2 Felix11 57 0 83.43 84.48 654 56 1 16 40 6 3 6 Apex8 55 0 80.55 81.51 6022 34 1 6 41 4 4 4 Spider 55 0 80.50 81.91 18053 27 1 4 36 3 5 5 Djoefe 55 0 79.81 81.79 12577 23 1 3 44 2 6 3 Viper2 53 0 77.96 82.12 34 114 2 170 44 1 7 7 Bulle 41 0 75.48 86.03 34512 104 2 259 30 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total -------------------------------------------------------------------- Spider 0 1.5 1.5 Viper2 0 0.5 0.5 Vector 10 0 10 DougE1 6 5 11 Felix 4 3 7 Apex8 2 2 4 Apex1 0 0 0 Djoefe 1 1 2 Bulle 3 0 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Eleveld 41.0 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix11 Tom Pycke 16.0 pts (Belgium) Spider, Viper2 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 11.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Maido Remm 10.5 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Jussi Palaja 10.0 pts (Finland) Vector Marc Gueury 9.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle -------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 16th May Monaco monaco.trk + extra 30th May Spain (Catalunya) barcelon.trk + extra 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 Several cars were updated: http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/djoefe.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/vector.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/bulle1.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/felix11.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/viper2b.zip Movies are at: http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/brands.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/imola.zip Vector drove straight into the grass on brands. I tried removing the track data, but the car still didn't drive as it should, so I reverted back to what was sent to me. It didn't even qualify... Next race will probably use 0.73. Hope I didn't forget anything, Gian-Carlo