RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races March 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 website at http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm 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: March 26th No. of races 2 Tracks: brazil + random Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.74 Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.74 Track surface type 1. 7 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 10794. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on brazil.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 79.648 mph by DougE1Time to qualify: 54.970 mph. 1 K1999 82.456 mph 2 DougE1 79.577 mph 3 Felix15 79.328 mph damage 1373 4 JOCOSA80 76.462 mph 5 Djoefe 75.105 mph 6 Apex8 73.068 mph 7 SAD01 69.200 mph _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: brazil.trk. Race length was 300.93 miles, 484.27 kilometers. Track record was 82.46 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 K1999 111 111 80.38 82.15 7475 11 2 55 81 10 2 2 DougE1 109 0 78.46 79.54 379 53 2 24 82 6 3 3 Felix15 108 0 78.16 79.40 5057 28 2 40 77 4 4 5 Djoefe 101 0 73.01 74.76 0 43 3 125 101 3 5 6 Apex8 101 0 72.67 74.04 1629 25 2 38 71 2 6 4 JOCOSA80 100 0 71.95 76.23 1101 29 4 148 73 1 7 7 SAD01 94 0 68.04 69.52 1752 85 3 124 80 0 RARS version 0.74 Track surface type 1. 7 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 12690. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: random.trk. Race length was 151.06 miles, 243.1 kilometers. Track record was 0.000 mph by Nobody F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 6 K1999 139 136 72.48 77.71! 6189 70 2 161 85 10 2 2 Felix15 132 3 68.72 71.05! 4437 57 1 72 88 6 3 5 JOCOSA80 123 0 63.77 68.72! 13362 137 3 280 117 4 4 7 Djoefe 115 0 59.88 62.02! 0 41 2 108 114 3 5 4 Apex8 107 0 55.43 56.74! 3960 127 1 38 93 2 6 1 SAD01 94 0 48.64 51.83! 16371 90 4 230 61 1 7 3 DougE1 5 0 22.81 36.94! 30028 143 2 295 4 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ K1999 10 10 20 Felix15 4 6 10 JOCOSA80 1 4 5 Apex8 2 2 4 Djoefe 3 3 6 SAD01 0 1 1 DougE1 6 0 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Driver's Standings K1999 40 pts (France) Remi Coulom Felix15 20 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld JOCOSA80 12 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes DougE1 12 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld Apex8 9 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm Djoefe 9 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto SAD01 2 pts (Ireland) M.O'Neill & M.Nicolau Constructor's Standings Remi Coulom 40 pts (France) K1999 Doug Eleveld 24 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix15 Jorge Cervantes 12 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA80 Maido Remm 9 pts (Estonia) Apex8 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 9 pts (Belgium) Djoefe M.Nicolau / M.O'Neill 2 pts (Ireland) SAD01 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments No real surprises today. K1999, Felix15 and DougE1 even scored exactly the same points as last week. Tracks: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/random.trk Movies are at: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/brazil.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/random.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo