RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races July 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: July 29th No. of races 2 Tracks: hock + random Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.83 Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.83 Track surface type 1. 14 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 28390. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: hock.trk. Race length was 302.27 miles, 486.43 kilometers. Track record was 113.2 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 4 K1999 73 73 109.1 112.9 7293 11 2 13 61 21 2 12 Dodger8 72 0 107.1 112.2 3613 10 2 146 64 16 3 3 K2001 71 0 105.2 109.9 4360 28 2 73 47 14 4 11 Sparky 69 0 102.9 109.1 12292 22 3 179 62 12 5 6 Jocosa 67 0 99.06 102.4 2463 108 2 57 59 10 6 2 J++ 67 0 99.03 102.5 13556 101 2 14 58 8 7 13 Bulle2 66 0 98.38 106.3 22420 53 2 258 53 6 8 8 Felix 66 0 98.28 103.9 6501 61 2 167 50 5 9 1 Mafanja 62 0 91.68 93.72 1691 22 2 60 52 4 10 9 Djoefe 61 0 90.72 92.62 5295 113 3 62 55 3 11 7 Apex8 61 0 89.74 93.05 7832 78 2 128 49 2 12 14 OscCar2 59 0 88.09 90.99 1540 72 2 84 47 1 13 5 O1 23 0 83.62 87.61 30893 62 1 135 9 0 14 10 SmoothB2 8 0 85.28 103.3 36045 134 2 96 6 0 RARS version 0.83 Track surface type 1. 14 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 28627. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: random.trk. Race length was 150.2 miles, 241.7 kilometers. Track record was 0.000 mph by Nobody F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 K1999 88 55 78.47 83.22! 13604 44 1 68 41 21 2 13 Dodger8 -22.3 33 78.22 83.05! 7791 2 1 80 73 16 3 3 Sparky 86 0 75.82 79.82! 15657 7 2 165 57 14 4 14 Bulle2 83 0 73.30 79.99! 21111 69 2 255 68 12 5 8 J++ 78 0 69.33 74.53! 13367 100 3 242 54 10 6 7 Jocosa 76 0 67.44 74.21! 11465 86 3 248 46 8 7 5 SmoothB2 65 0 57.85 62.96! 15738 134 7 309 60 6 8 6 OscCar2 62 0 55.32 57.23! 24687 13 1 133 25 5 9 4 Djoefe 62 0 55.18 58.15! 15540 100 2 138 45 4 10 2 O1 58 0 51.46 53.31! 22468 49 1 135 25 3 11 10 Apex8 54 0 47.54 49.85! 20069 44 1 128 11 2 12 11 Mafanja 22 0 35.23 53.62! 30016 140 8 1029 20 1 13 12 K2001 1 0 59.98 63.96! 60470 144 0 0 0 0 14 9 Felix 1 0 63.55 67.08! 32071 144 0 0 0 0 Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------ K1999 21 21 42 K2001 14 0 14 Jocosa 10 8 18 Sparky 12 14 26 Dodger 16 16 32 Bulle2 6 12 18 Felix 5 0 5 Apex8 2 2 4 Djoefe 3 4 7 O1 0 3 3 OscCar2 1 5 6 Mafanja 4 1 5 Jpp 8 10 18 SmoothB2 0 6 6 ------------------------------------ Driver's Standings K1999 435 pts (France) Remi Coulom Dodger 392 pts (UK) Tim Foden K2001 317 pts (France) Remi Coulom Sparky 283 pts (UK) Tim Foden Bulle2 258 pts (Belgium) Marc Gueury Felix 197 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld Jocosa 139 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes Apex8 110 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm Djoefe 107 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto OscCar2 20 pts (Sweden) Oscar Gustafsson Jpp 29 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes O1 13 pts (Sweden) Oscar Gustafsson Mafanja 8 pts (Germany) Eugen Treise SmoothB 6 pts (?) Dennis Lew Constructor's Standings Remi Coulom 458 pts (France) K1999, K2001 Tim Foden 392 pts (UK) Sparky, Dodger Marc Gueury 253 pts (Belgium) Bulle2 Doug Eleveld 181 pts (Netherlands) Felix Jorge Cervantes 142 pts (Mexico) Jocosa, Jpp Maido Remm 115 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 107 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Oscar Gustafsson 22 pts (Sweden) O1, OscCar2 Eugen Treise 8 pts (Germany) Mafanja Dennis Lew 6 pts (?) SmoothB ------------------------------------------------------------------- Movies are at (I hope): ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/hock.zip ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/random.zip Updated drivers: ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/mafanja2.cpp ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/SmoothB.zip Comments We have a new competitor in Dennis Lew and his driver SmoothB. However, I was unable to contact him as all email to his address bounced :( Greetings, Gian-Carlo