RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races August 29th, 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://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/index.html 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 29th No. of races 2 Tracks: spa + extra (pocono) 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 20951. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on spa.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 94.840 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 63.269 mph. 1 DougE1 94.903 mph damage 346 2 Vector 93.345 mph 3 JOCOSA79 92.645 mph 4 Felix13 92.615 mph 5 Viper2Hb 90.926 mph 6 Bulle 89.607 mph 7 Viper2Ha 86.604 mph 8 Djoefe 85.587 mph 9 Apex8 84.973 mph 10 Sarah 84.922 mph 11 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: spa.trk. Race length was 303.42 miles, 488.28 kilometers. Track record was 94.90 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 70 70 93.15 94.62 666 48 2 24 54 10 2 2 Vector -138. 0 92.07 93.22 5082 68 2 22 55 6 3 4 Felix13 69 0 91.51 92.52 656 57 2 14 53 4 4 3 JOCOSA79 68 0 90.25 92.40 1769 21 2 27 47 3 5 6 Bulle 66 0 87.57 89.30 6888 12 2 14 46 2 6 5 Viper2Hb 66 0 87.53 89.92 11533 24 2 89 46 1 7 7 Viper2Ha 65 0 85.50 86.58 5307 39 2 35 47 0 8 9 Apex8 64 0 84.14 85.20 5791 65 2 28 50 0 9 8 Djoefe 64 0 83.99 84.95 5055 44 2 19 51 0 10 10 Sarah 64 0 83.90 85.20 10172 54 3 17 63 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 22939. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on pocono.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 114.21 mph by DougE1Time to qualify: 76.620 mph. 1 DougE1 114.93 mph 2 Bulle 114.45 mph 3 Felix13 112.10 mph 4 JOCOSA79 110.66 mph 5 Viper2Hb 110.44 mph 6 Apex1 109.85 mph 7 Viper2Ha 109.26 mph 8 Djoefe 109.05 mph 9 Apex8 108.97 mph 10 Vector 108.47 mph 11 Sarah 105.74 mph _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: pocono.trk. Race length was 150.06 miles, 241.49 kilometers. Track record was 114.9 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 DougE1 60 59 109.8 114.5 7174 15 1 15 51 10 2 3 Felix13 -5.65 1 109.7 112.1 34 17 1 8 51 6 3 2 Bulle 59 0 108.0 114.1 10551 100 1 7 45 4 4 6 Apex1 59 0 106.8 109.9 8029 10 1 2 49 3 5 9 Apex8 59 0 106.2 109.3 8115 13 1 5 47 2 6 10 Vector 58 0 106.2 108.4 954 135 1 7 54 1 7 4 JOCOSA79 58 0 105.9 110.6 0 14 1 28 48 0 8 8 Djoefe 58 0 105.5 108.6 10751 11 1 1 50 0 9 7 Viper2Ha 58 0 105.5 108.7 0 115 1 31 47 0 10 5 Viper2Hb 58 0 104.6 109.6 5715 103 1 52 44 0 11 11 Sarah 57 0 102.8 106.8 68 76 2 21 46 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viper2Hb 1 0 1 Viper2Ha 0 0 0 Vector 6 0.5 6.5 DougE1 10 5 15 Felix 4 3 7 Apex8 0 1 1 Apex1 0 1.5 1.5 Djoefe 0 0 0 Bulle 2 2 4 JOCOSA79 3 0 3 Sarah 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Standings Doug Eleveld 164.5 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix13 Marc Gueury 65.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jussi Palaja 59.0 pts (Finland) Vector Tom Pycke 33.5 pts (Belgium) Viper2Ha, Viper2Hb Maido Remm 26.0 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Jorge Cervantes 25.5 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA79 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 20.0 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Daniel Ash 3.0 pts (USA) Sarah ------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming RARS Race Meets 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated/new cars: Sarah (no link) http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/jocosa79.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/felix13.zip Movies are at: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/spa.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/pocono.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo