RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races March 17th, 2002 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: March 17th No. of races 2 Tracks: sepang1 + random Miles: not less than 300 Software version: 0.90b Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.90 Track surface type 1 10 cars for 94 laps over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 29113 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Race 1 : Track sepang1.trk Race length was 303.12 miles, 487.80 kilometers. Track record was 81.36 mph by K1999 F S Driver Laps Lead Speed Best Damage Fuel Pits Time Last Pnts 1 4 K1999 94 91 80.59 82.59! 6080 5 2 58 63 21 2 9 K2001 93 0 79.23 81.07 11751 17 3 24 90 16 3 6 SmoothB 86 0 73.69 76.95 2540 30 2 131 61 14 4 5 J++ 86 0 73.19 75.04 10853 16 2 88 57 12 5 8 BigRed 85 0 72.04 74.85 3433 50 3 148 65 10 6 3 Djoefe 83 0 70.78 73.10 1063 59 3 139 74 8 7 1 Bulle2 83 3 77.53 79.76 54272 118 3 99 83 6 8 7 O1 80 0 68.24 70.96 3855 68 3 289 66 5 9 10 OscCar2 80 0 67.80 72.48 10179 55 3 370 63 4 10 2 Mafanja 77 0 71.82 73.29 78490 65 2 83 60 3 RARS version 0.90 Track surface type 1 10 cars for 222 laps over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 31526 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Race 1 : Track random1.trk Race length was 300.64 miles, 483.80 kilometers. Track record was 0.00 mph by Nobody F S Driver Laps Lead Speed Best Damage Fuel Pits Time Last Pnts 1 10 K1999 222 221 71.89 75.55! 12522 15 3 211 221 21 2 5 K2001 219 0 70.71 73.36! 10444 30 3 163 193 16 3 9 J++ 204 0 65.94 68.64! 18125 5 3 241 131 14 4 1 SmoothB 201 1 64.95 67.63! 16167 26 2 182 143 12 5 3 Mafanja 187 0 60.26 61.54! 15182 23 2 151 148 10 6 6 Bulle2 182 0 58.93 71.94! 3567 143 15 1944 180 8 7 8 Djoefe 178 0 57.49 60.24! 15863 93 4 342 161 6 8 7 OscCar2 176 0 56.95 58.27! 1445 118 3 129 165 5 9 2 O1 160 0 54.37 55.94! 30678 63 3 172 161 4 10 4 BigRed 160 0 51.81 53.63! 2128 134 2 202 152 3 Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------ K1999 21 21 42 K2001 16 16 32 Bulle2 6 8 14 Djoefe 8 6 14 O1 5 4 9 OscCar2 4 5 9 Mafanja 3 10 13 SmoothB 14 12 26 BigRed 10 3 13 ------------------------------------ Driver's Standings K1999 42 pts (France) Remi Coulom K2001 32 pts (France) Remi Coulom SmoothB 26 pts (USA) Dennis Lew Djoefe 14 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto Bulle2 14 pts (Belgium) Marc Gueury Mafanja 13 pts (Germany) Eugen Treise BigRed 13 pts (USA) Daniel R. Collins O1 9 pts (Sweden) Oscar Gustafsson OscCar2 9 pts (Sweden) Oscar Gustafsson Constructor's Standings Remi Coulom 42 pts (France) K2001, K1999 Dennis Lew 26 pts (France) SmoothB Gian-Carlo Pascutto 14 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Marc Gueury 14 pts (Belgium) Bulle2 Eugen Treise 13 pts (Germany) Mafanja Daniel R Collins 13 pts (USA) BigRed Oscar Gustafsson 9 pts (Sweden) O1, OscCar2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Movies are at: http://rars.sourceforge.net/ftp/sepang1.zip http://rars.sourceforge.net/ftp/random1.zip Comments I worked around the random track problem by generating the track with an older version. SmoothB was updated. Greetings, Gian-Carlo