RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races September 26th, 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 26th No. of races 2 Tracks: nurnburg + extra (estoril) 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 3661. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on nurnburg.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 92.000 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 61.304 mph. 1 DougE1 91.955 mph 2 Felix14 88.385 mph 3 JOCOSA79 88.015 mph 4 Bulle 86.643 mph 5 Vector 85.545 mph 6 Viper2Hb 83.911 mph 7 Djoefe 82.881 mph 8 Viper2Ha 82.017 mph damage 2775 9 Apex8 81.452 mph 10 Sarah 79.465 mph damage 2006 11 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: nurnburg.trk. Race length was 302.59 miles, 486.94 kilometers. Track record was 92.00 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 105 105 88.68 91.60 7699 28 2 84 75 10 2 2 Felix14 103 0 86.62 88.18 1984 49 2 52 77 6 3 4 Bulle 98 0 82.67 85.70 12144 146 3 81 98 4 4 3 JOCOSA79 98 0 82.60 87.85 5293 27 3 92 74 3 5 5 Vector 98 0 82.56 85.27 4195 80 2 112 79 2 6 6 Viper2Hb 98 0 82.20 83.73 1264 125 3 57 93 1 7 9 Apex8 95 0 80.07 82.16 5089 19 2 86 66 0 8 7 Djoefe 95 0 79.87 82.48 9675 8 2 207 61 0 9 10 Sarah 92 0 77.22 80.38 18197 78 5 170 91 0 10 8 Viper2Ha 90 0 75.89 82.20 1406 143 6 619 89 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 6085. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on estoril.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 87.093 mph by DougE1Time to qualify: 58.006 mph. 1 DougE1 87.009 mph 2 Bulle 84.922 mph 3 Felix14 83.975 mph 4 JOCOSA79 82.254 mph 5 Viper2Hb 81.659 mph 6 Vector 81.036 mph 7 Apex8 79.608 mph 8 Djoefe 79.468 mph 9 Viper2Ha 79.050 mph damage 2412 10 Sarah 76.733 mph damage 2838 11 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: estoril.trk. Race length was 151.50 miles, 243.81 kilometers. Track record was 87.09 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 55 55 85.06 86.92 1564 27 1 15 42 10 2 2 Bulle 54 0 83.12 84.76 5618 78 1 7 37 6 3 3 Felix14 54 0 82.64 84.56 0 38 1 8 40 4 4 4 JOCOSA79 52 0 79.61 82.33 0 22 1 26 37 3 5 7 Apex8 51 0 78.82 80.03 2505 30 1 7 39 2 6 6 Vector 51 0 78.80 80.64 755 128 1 28 45 1 7 8 Djoefe 51 0 78.45 79.36 3352 19 1 2 42 0 8 5 Viper2Hb 51 0 78.19 80.78 16315 63 1 46 32 0 9 9 Viper2Ha 48 0 74.12 78.67 16642 86 2 203 34 0 10 10 Sarah 46 0 70.06 77.16 9121 125 4 312 41 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viper2Hb 1 0 1 Viper2Ha 0 0 0 Vector 2 0.5 2.5 DougE1 10 5 15 Felix 6 2 8 Apex8 0 1 1 Apex1 0 0 0 Djoefe 0 0 0 Bulle 4 3 7 JOCOSA79 3 1.5 4.5 Sarah 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Standings Doug Eleveld 194.5 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix14 Marc Gueury 77.5 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jussi Palaja 63.5 pts (Finland) Vector Tom Pycke 37.5 pts (Belgium) Viper2Ha, Viper2Hb Jorge Cervantes 36.0 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA79 Maido Remm 27.0 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 21.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Daniel Ash 3.0 pts (USA) Sarah ------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 17th October Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) sepang1.trk + extra 31st October Japan (Suzuka) suzuka.trk + extra -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments Felix was updated to Felix14. A new Djoefe was used which uses Doug's optimization library as well as an improved traction control. Both improvements were done by Doug. Updated/new cars: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/djoefeo.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/felix14.zip Movies are at: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/nurnburg.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/estoril.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo