RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races April 29th, 2001 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 gcp@sjeng.org. Or visit the Rars website at http://rars.sourceforge.net Contents Todays Races Race Report Driver Point Standings Authors Point Standings News Comments Here is a repeat of the announcement: April 29th No. of races 2 Tracks: barcelon + alternate (nazareth) Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.81 + all patches Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.8 Track surface type 1. 10 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 4217. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: barcelon.trk. Race length was 301.74 miles, 485.58 kilometers. Track record was 92.03 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 5 K1999 101 75 91.00 93.06! 713 12 2 76 65 21 2 9 K2001 100 20 89.53 91.63 5600 8 2 59 64 16 3 8 Dodger5 100 0 89.45 90.74 2618 9 2 33 84 14 4 1 Bulle2 99 6 88.51 90.03 14125 12 2 11 79 12 5 7 Sparky 97 0 87.37 88.86 6943 16 2 39 84 10 6 4 Felix 96 0 85.74 87.71 3386 37 2 63 69 8 7 3 Jocosa 92 0 82.61 84.14 1698 35 2 52 66 6 8 10 Apex8 89 0 79.42 80.36 2841 59 2 39 68 5 9 6 Djoefe 86 0 76.71 78.77 5769 71 3 122 79 4 10 2 Apex1 1 0 39.94 40.10 30063 142 0 0 0 3 RARS version 0.8 Track surface type 1. 10 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 4429. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: nazareth.trk. Race length was 150.73 miles, 242.57 kilometers. Track record was 103.0 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 3 K1999 150 117 100.0 103.7! 11539 13 1 1 126 21 2 8 K2001 -0.873 0 100.0 103.3! 7915 13 1 2 121 16 3 2 Dodger5 -20.6 33 99.63 102.6 4521 0 1 12 136 14 4 4 Sparky 148 0 98.63 101.5 11311 2 1 12 138 12 5 6 Bulle2 146 0 96.87 99.62 6348 6 1 1 121 10 6 5 Felix 145 0 96.36 98.51 793 11 1 13 142 8 7 9 Jocosa 142 0 94.24 95.70 16009 2 0 0 0 6 8 1 Apex8 141 0 93.84 96.25 13857 13 1 3 128 5 9 7 Apex1 140 0 93.34 99.11 4172 108 1 132 109 4 10 10 Djoefe 139 0 92.08 97.12 8226 14 1 102 116 3 Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------ K1999 21 21 42 K2001 16 16 32 Jocosa 6 6 12 Sparky 12 10 22 Dodger 14 14 28 Bulle2 12 10 22 Felix 8 8 16 Apex8 5 5 10 Apex1 3 4 7 Djoefe 4 3 7 ------------------------------------ Driver's Standings Dodger 168 pts (UK) Tim Foden K1999 156 pts (France) Remi Coulom K2001 127 pts (France) Remi Coulom Sparky 123 pts (UK) Tim Foden Bulle2 106 pts (Belgium) Marc Gueury Felix 88 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld Jocosa 55 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes Djoefe 51 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto Apex8 49 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm Apex1 38 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm Constructor's Standings Remi Coulom 174 pts (France) K1999 Tim Foden 168 pts (UK) Sparky, Dodger Marc Gueury 116 pts (Belgium) Bulle2 Doug Eleveld 88 pts (Netherlands) Doug, Felix Maido Remm 55 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Jorge Cervantes 55 pts (Mexico) Jocosa Gian-Carlo Pascutto 51 pts (Belgium) Djoefe ------------------------------------------------------------------- Movies are at : ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/barcelon.zip ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/nazareth.zip Comments Got a hardware upgrade. I moved from a Cyrix120 (blech!) to an Athlon 1000 (yeeha!). You might want to take note that the 'be reasonable about its memory and cpu usage' in the race rules now applies to this new system, and hence I will consider robots that are 10 times more computationally intensive still acceptable. Greetings, Gian-Carlo