RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races May 16th, 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://members.xoom.com/rars_races 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: May 15th No. of races 2 Tracks: Monaco + extra (jerez) Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.72 Surface Type: 1 no practice, 2 qualification laps -------------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.72 9 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 3691. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on monaco.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 70.429 mph by Vector Time to qualify: 35.174 mph. 1 Vector 70.349 mph damage 1145 2 DougE1 68.672 mph damage 1910 3 Bulle 65.686 mph 4 Felix12 62.790 mph 5 Viper2c 60.196 mph 6 Viper2H 60.050 mph damage 2981 7 Djoefe 58.824 mph 8 Apex8 56.594 mph 9 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: monaco.trk. Race length was 300.39 miles, 483.40 kilometers. Track record was 70.43 mph by Vector F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 Vector 159 102 66.75 68.14 9372 11 2 86 107 10 2 2 DougE1 -91.1 57 66.38 68.52 7419 49 3 229 128 6 3 3 Bulle 153 0 64.22 65.69 13086 52 3 32 126 4 4 4 Felix12 148 0 61.81 63.60 1399 85 3 73 132 3 5 5 Viper2c 141 0 59.05 60.37 2100 60 3 134 117 2 6 7 Djoefe 137 0 57.51 59.19 1428 62 3 131 112 1 7 8 Apex8 134 0 56.12 57.84 221 117 3 100 126 0 8 6 Viper2H 46 0 55.59 60.73 31567 107 3 309 36 0 RARS version 0.72 9 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 15504. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on jerez.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 200% from fastest car speed. Track record was 83.697 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 41.849 mph. 1 DougE1 83.697 mph 2 Bulle 80.052 mph 3 Felix12 79.809 mph 4 Vector 78.346 mph 5 Apex8 75.112 mph 6 Viper2c 71.629 mph damage 3988 7 Viper2H 67.848 mph damage 9459 8 Djoefe 67.301 mph damage 10758 9 Apex1 42.448 mph damage 30004 _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: jerez.trk. Race length was 151.36 miles, 243.58 kilometers. Track record was 83.70 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 54 54 81.57 83.39 9308 32 1 24 39 10 2 3 Felix12 53 0 78.90 79.74 557 57 1 12 34 6 3 2 Bulle 53 0 78.59 79.95 6044 54 1 7 32 4 4 4 Vector 52 0 77.15 78.21 2162 101 1 13 39 3 5 5 Apex8 49 0 73.09 75.05 5072 47 1 85 33 2 6 6 Viper2c 44 0 65.47 72.25 2084 144 4 433 43 1 7 8 Djoefe 39 0 58.27 70.69 21532 58 8 840 34 0 8 7 Viper2H 38 0 57.33 69.07 0 146 8 880 38 0 9 9 Apex1 1 0 42.07 42.96 30072 139 0 0 0 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total -------------------------------------------------------------------- Viper2c 2 0.5 2.5 Viper2H 0 0 0 Vector 10 1.5 11.5 DougE1 6 5 11 Felix 3 3 6 Apex8 0 1 1 Apex1 0 0 0 Djoefe 1 0 1 Bulle 4 2 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Eleveld 52.0 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix12 Jussi Palaja 21.5 pts (Finland) Vector Tom Pycke 18.5 pts (Belgium) Viper2H, Viper2c Marc Gueury 15.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle Gian-Carlo Pascutto 12.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Maido Remm 10.5 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 30th May Spain (Catalunya) barcelon.trk + extra 13th June Canada (Montreal) montreal.trk + extra 27th June France (Magny-Cours) magnycrs.trk + extra 11th July Great Britain (Silverstone) silver97.trk + extra 25th July Austria (A1-Ring) austria.trk + extra 1st August Germany (Hockenheim) hock.trk + extra 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) track layout unknown 31st October Japan (Suzuka) suzuka.trk + extra -------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments Updated cars: http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/viper2.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/bulle2.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/vecto071.dat http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/felix12.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/douge21.zip Djoefe used an optimized parameter set for monaco. I don't have it handy right now so I can't include it, but if you need it just drop me a mail. Movies are at: http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/jerez.zip http://www.digibel.org/~pascutto/rars/monaco.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo