RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races August 1st, 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 Or visit the Rars websites at http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm and http://www.crosswinds.net/~rars (outdated) Contents Submissions Todays Races Preliminary lap times Race Report Authors Point Standings Upcoming Races Comments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: August 1st No. of races 2 Tracks: hock + extra (mlwaukee) 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 23795. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on hock.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 106.98 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 71.320 mph. 1 DougE1 106.98 mph 2 JOCOSA78 104.23 mph 3 Vector 103.44 mph 4 Bulle 103.24 mph 5 Felix12 98.626 mph 6 Viper2H 94.244 mph 7 Djoefe 93.853 mph 8 Sarah 93.401 mph 9 Apex8 93.177 mph 10 Viper2c 93.177 mph 11 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: hock.trk. Race length was 302.27 miles, 486.43 kilometers. Track record was 107.0 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 73 73 102.2 106.6 9798 56 2 120 56 10 2 4 Bulle 72 0 100.0 103.1 8612 52 2 14 55 6 3 2 JOCOSA78 71 0 99.25 103.8 1777 130 3 102 68 4 4 5 Felix12 70 0 97.25 98.45 32 46 2 21 52 3 5 6 Viper2H 67 0 92.94 94.64 964 50 2 31 50 2 6 8 Sarah 66 0 92.12 93.50 8988 28 2 14 47 1 7 9 Apex8 66 0 91.41 93.53 6150 54 2 46 50 0 8 10 Viper2c 66 0 91.09 93.08 7127 55 2 85 50 0 9 3 Vector 29 0 100.1 103.2 34330 146 1 41 29 0 10 7 Djoefe 27 0 92.90 93.76 55607 148 1 13 27 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 25756. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on mlwaukee.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 96.778 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 64.519 mph. 1 DougE1 96.778 mph 2 Apex1 94.553 mph 3 Felix12 92.558 mph 4 Apex8 92.299 mph 5 Bulle 92.299 mph 6 Sarah 91.656 mph 7 Djoefe 91.528 mph 8 JOCOSA78 89.780 mph 9 Vector 89.051 mph 10 Viper2c 88.216 mph 11 Viper2H 80.846 mph damage 7941 _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: mlwaukee.trk. Race length was 150.54 miles, 242.26 kilometers. Track record was 96.78 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 150 137 90.73 96.49 11604 24 1 71 115 10 2 2 Apex1 149 0 89.94 94.69 2849 15 1 74 108 6 3 4 Apex8 149 2 89.53 92.30 14384 5 1 12 126 4 4 3 Felix12 148 11 89.18 92.30 13564 15 1 45 128 3 5 6 Sarah 146 0 88.26 91.66 4060 111 2 25 123 2 6 7 Djoefe 145 0 87.23 92.17 10 7 1 133 128 1 7 8 JOCOSA78 144 0 86.58 89.66 29 120 1 19 121 0 8 9 Vector 144 0 87.36 88.69 21 148 1 43 144 0 9 5 Bulle 142 0 85.59 92.30 4513 122 2 153 126 0 10 10 Viper2c 60 0 78.93 87.75 56988 108 1 102 27 0 11 11 Viper2H 56 0 73.68 90.27 39676 132 2 207 46 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viper2c 0 0 0 Viper2H 2 0 2 Vector 0 0 0 DougE1 10 5 15 Felix 3 1.5 4.5 Apex8 0 2 2 Apex1 0 3 3 Djoefe 0 0.5 0.5 Bulle 6 0 6 JOCOSA78 4 0 4 Sarah 1 1 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Standings Doug Eleveld 134.5 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix12 Marc Gueury 57.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jussi Palaja 50.5 pts (Finland) Vector Tom Pycke 27.5 pts (Belgium) Viper2H, Viper2c Maido Remm 24.5 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 18.5 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Jorge Cervantes 16.0 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA78 Daniel Ash 3.0 pts (USA) Sarah ------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 15th August Hungary (Hungaroring) hungary.trk + extra 29th August Belgium (Spa) spa.trk + extra 12th Septmber Italy (Monza) monza-76.trk + extra 26th September Europe (Nurburgring) nurnburg.trk + extra 17th October Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) sepang1.trk + extra 31st October Japan (Suzuka) suzuka.trk + extra -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments Updated/new cars: none Movies are at: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/hock.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/mlwaukee.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo