RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races September 12th, 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: September 12th No. of races 2 Tracks: monza-76 + extra (buenos) 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 13898. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on monza-76.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 121.98 mph by Vector Time to qualify: 81.237 mph. 1 Vector 121.86 mph 2 DougE1 113.49 mph 3 JOCOSA79 113.17 mph 4 Felix13 110.56 mph 5 Viper2Hb 105.88 mph 6 Bulle 103.15 mph 7 Viper2Ha 97.763 mph damage 410 8 Djoefe 97.564 mph damage 277 9 Sarah 95.925 mph 10 Apex8 93.640 mph 11 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: monza-76.trk. Race length was 303.54 miles, 488.48 kilometers. Track record was 122.0 mph by Vector F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 4 Felix13 83 35 106.2 110.5 335 47 2 92 66 10 2 3 JOCOSA79-82.7 33 105.4 113.1 874 16 4 250 69 6 3 6 Bulle 76 0 96.35 102.6 11036 123 3 144 71 4 4 2 DougE1 74 0 100.8 113.1 38446 125 6 574 74 3 5 7 Viper2Ha 73 0 93.12 97.64 13014 35 2 247 51 2 6 8 Djoefe 72 0 91.92 97.01 3289 63 2 121 57 1 7 9 Sarah 72 0 91.44 96.39 2427 133 5 209 69 0 8 10 Apex8 70 0 89.51 93.97 8953 30 2 209 47 0 9 5 Viper2Hb 45 0 101.6 105.5 35562 55 1 112 25 0 10 1 Vector 15 15 113.2 121.5 49142 82 0 0 0 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 15850. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on buenos.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 79.009 mph by DougE1Time to qualify: 52.605 mph. 1 DougE1 78.907 mph 2 Felix13 77.633 mph 3 Vector 77.567 mph damage 243 4 Bulle 75.516 mph 5 Viper2Hb 75.113 mph 6 JOCOSA79 74.561 mph 7 Viper2Ha 73.868 mph 8 Apex8 72.750 mph 9 Djoefe 72.692 mph 10 Sarah 71.892 mph 11 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: buenos.trk. Race length was 150.49 miles, 242.18 kilometers. Track record was 79.01 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 54 52 77.21 78.84 3405 26 1 13 41 10 2 2 Felix13 -41.3 2 76.76 77.70 228 30 1 4 40 6 3 3 Vector -127. 0 75.84 77.30 3783 94 1 41 39 4 4 4 Bulle 52 0 74.14 75.52 3357 54 1 7 32 3 5 7 Viper2Ha 52 0 73.12 73.81 112 66 1 10 33 2 6 5 Viper2Hb 51 0 72.73 74.96 430 106 2 119 42 1 7 8 Apex8 51 0 72.22 73.10 4825 37 1 10 35 0 8 9 Djoefe 51 0 71.73 72.87 17629 18 1 2 40 0 9 10 Sarah 50 0 71.48 72.18 6427 26 1 6 29 0 10 6 JOCOSA79 50 0 71.47 74.47 3396 16 1 46 34 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viper2Hb 0 0.5 0.5 Viper2Ha 2 1 3 Vector 0 2 2 DougE1 3 5 8 Felix 10 3 13 Apex8 0 0 0 Apex1 0 0 0 Djoefe 1 0 1 Bulle 4 1.5 5.5 JOCOSA79 6 0 6 Sarah 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Standings Doug Eleveld 179.5 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix13 Marc Gueury 70.5 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jussi Palaja 61.0 pts (Finland) Vector Tom Pycke 36.5 pts (Belgium) Viper2Ha, Viper2Hb Jorge Cervantes 31.5 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA79 Maido Remm 26.0 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 21.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Daniel Ash 3.0 pts (USA) Sarah ------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 26th September Europe (Nurburgring) nurnburg.trk + extra 17th October Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) sepang1.trk + extra 31st October Japan (Suzuka) suzuka.trk + extra -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments Monza is still wat it has always been: an extremely dangerous track. Both Vector, who was favorite for this track, and Viper2Hb got involved in an accident in the well-known chicane and the road to victory was cleared for JOCOSA and DougE1...who managed to crash shortly before the end of the race. Luckily for DougE, "little brother" Felix took home the victory... and another 15 points could be added to Doug's totals. Updated/new cars: none Movies are at: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/monza.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/buenos.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo