RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races June 13th, 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: Montreal + extra (zandvort) Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.72 Surface Type: 1 no practice, 2 qualification laps ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.72 8 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 24582. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on montreal.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 103.84 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 52.596 mph. 1 DougE1 105.19 mph 2 Vector 103.90 mph 3 Bulle 91.088 mph 4 Felix12 90.599 mph 5 Viper2H 81.915 mph 6 Viper2c 80.949 mph 7 Apex8 78.917 mph 8 Apex1 54.211 mph damage 30005 _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: montreal.trk. Race length was 302.62 miles, 486.99 kilometers. Track record was 105.2 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 107 107 97.86 104.6 7559 67 3 198 86 10 2 2 Vector -69.2 0 97.26 103.1 12180 41 2 163 77 6 3 3 Bulle 97 0 88.17 90.78 16030 26 2 24 69 4 4 4 Felix12 96 0 87.21 90.55 4016 131 3 116 92 3 5 5 Viper2H 87 0 79.20 81.27 10346 63 2 137 67 2 6 6 Viper2c 87 0 79.01 81.06 4613 64 2 126 67 1 7 7 Apex8 86 0 77.90 79.63 4666 64 2 56 67 0 8 8 Apex1 1 0 50.78 51.95 30018 139 0 0 0 0 RARS version 0.72 9 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 25984. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on zandvort.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 0.0000 mph by Nobody Time to qualify: 49.421 mph. 1 DougE1 98.841 mph 2 Bulle 94.664 mph 3 Felix12 92.531 mph 4 Vector 90.540 mph damage 1877 5 Viper2H 88.815 mph 6 Viper2c 88.678 mph 7 Apex8 86.542 mph 8 Djoefe 84.507 mph 9 Apex1 58.586 mph damage 24772 _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: zandvort.trk. Race length was 152.56 miles, 245.50 kilometers. Track record was 98.84 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 58 58 95.89 98.90! 342 26 1 13 45 10 2 2 Bulle 56 0 92.53 94.35 2675 71 1 7 37 6 3 3 Felix12 56 0 91.19 92.48 74 49 1 6 40 4 4 5 Viper2H 53 0 87.61 88.72 900 104 1 8 41 3 5 6 Viper2c 53 0 87.14 88.45 2959 101 1 20 40 2 6 7 Apex8 52 0 85.75 86.85 5113 39 1 9 39 1 7 4 Vector 51 0 83.94 90.02 1739 141 2 202 49 0 8 8 Djoefe 42 0 83.31 83.73 7846 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 Apex1 5 0 38.27 53.50 30015 139 2 285 4 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viper2c 1 1 2 Viper2H 2 1.5 3.5 Vector 6 0 6 DougE1 10 5 15 Felix 3 2 5 Apex8 0 0.5 0.5 Apex1 0 0 0 Djoefe 0 0 0 Bulle 4 3 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Standings Doug Eleveld 78.5 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix12 Jussi Palaja 35.5 pts (Finland) Vector Marc Gueury 31.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle Tom Pycke 24.0 pts (Belgium) Viper2H, Viper2c Maido Remm 15.0 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 13.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe ------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 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) sepang1.trk + extra 31st October Japan (Suzuka) suzuka.trk + extra -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments I didn't let Djoefe race at montreal because it can't make the sharp corner at the far left end of the track. Not that it did a lot better on zandvort, though. Maido sent me a new Apex8. Link is below. Updated cars: http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/apex82.zip Movies are at: http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/montreal.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/zandvort.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo