RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races October 31st, 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: October 31st No. of races 2 Tracks: suzuka + extra (speed2) 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. 12 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 19379. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on suzuka.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 91.617 mph by Felix13 Time to qualify: 61.101 mph. 1 Felix14 91.652 mph 2 DougE1 91.582 mph 3 JOCOSA79 89.036 mph 4 Viper2Hb 87.607 mph 5 Djoefe 86.255 mph 6 Viper2Ha 85.915 mph 7 Bulle 85.609 mph 8 Apex8 84.704 mph 9 Sarah 82.380 mph damage 1470 10 Bug 50.733 mph DNQ: 180.66% 11 Vector 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps 12 Apex1 0.0000 mph DNQ: 0 laps _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: suzuka.trk. Race length was 300.39 miles, 483.41 kilometers. Track record was 91.65 mph by Felix14 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 Felix14 82 81 90.07 91.51 1211 51 2 19 62 10 2 2 DougE1 -51.7 1 89.69 91.44 653 51 2 23 63 6 3 3 JOCOSA79 80 0 87.16 89.70 5951 15 2 31 55 4 4 4 Viper2Hb 78 0 84.75 87.26 3541 131 3 108 75 3 5 6 Viper2Ha 77 0 84.52 85.76 3307 23 2 22 54 2 6 5 Djoefe 77 0 83.99 86.29 8993 28 2 127 59 1 7 8 Apex8 76 0 83.43 85.09 1305 43 2 45 56 0 8 7 Bulle 75 0 81.64 85.06 13473 130 3 100 72 0 9 9 Sarah 72 0 78.75 83.67 2790 141 4 283 71 0 RARS version 0.74 Track surface type 1. 12 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 5497. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on speed2.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 119.92 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 79.945 mph. 1 DougE1 119.92 mph 2 Felix14 117.08 mph 3 JOCOSA79 115.53 mph 4 Bulle 114.73 mph 5 Viper2Ha 110.87 mph 6 Viper2Hb 110.30 mph 7 Sarah 104.18 mph 8 Apex8 100.31 mph 9 Djoefe 99.105 mph 10 Vector 87.690 mph damage 9885 11 Apex1 87.535 mph damage 8934 12 Bug 57.969 mph DNQ: 206.87% _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: speed2.trk. Race length was 151.69 miles, 244.11 kilometers. Track record was 119.9 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 2 Felix14 67 21 112.1 116.5 888 17 1 18 56 10 2 3 JOCOSA79 66 0 109.2 115.5 1113 8 2 47 56 6 3 5 Viper2Ha 64 0 106.6 109.9 1729 104 1 41 49 4 4 6 Viper2Hb 64 0 106.4 109.2 3997 91 1 31 46 3 5 7 Sarah 60 0 99.56 104.8 14825 82 3 24 51 2 6 9 Djoefe 59 0 97.02 98.64 6391 27 1 2 54 1 7 8 Apex8 57 0 95.12 100.1 15464 47 1 103 26 0 8 1 DougE1 46 46 114.0 119.3 32234 108 1 79 47 0 9 4 Bulle 44 0 106.3 112.9 81278 11 0 0 0 0 10 11 Apex1 43 0 70.61 91.53 21439 131 6 813 38 0 11 10 Vector 2 0 39.98 73.10 30037 148 1 100 2 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ Viper2Hb 3 1.5 4.5 Viper2Ha 2 2 4 Vector 0 0 0 DougE1 6 0 6 Felix 10 5 15 Apex8 0 0 0 Apex1 0 0 0 Djoefe 1 0.5 1.5 Bulle 0 0 0 JOCOSA79 4 3 7 Sarah 0 1 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Standings Doug Eleveld 224.5 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix14 Marc Gueury 78.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle Jussi Palaja 65.5 pts (Finland) Vector Tom Pycke 49.5 pts (Belgium) Viper2Ha, Viper2Hb Jorge Cervantes 47.5 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA79 Maido Remm 28.0 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 24.5 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Daniel Ash 4.0 pts (USA) Sarah ------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments Congratulations to Doug Eleveld for winning the 1999 season, with an amazing 224.5 points. Also congratulations to Marc Gueury and Jussi Palaja, who ended up in respectively second and third place. While spitting through my old RARS mail, I found this. It's an extract from one of Doug's first mails. >I know that there is more of a bit of that motivates me and challenges me to try and >write a better driver than the rest. So far, the driving-line optimization code works >great, and I just got a brilliant (I hope) idea of how to code some completely new >collision avoidance stuff. I just can't wait till it's done and then I can >enter the races and totally destroy all the other competitors and have you all wonder >and my amazing genius! Hmmm..."joke" eh ? I added the Bug driver, and it seemed to work ok. Just had to remove the usual non-ANSI C stuff. Updated/new cars: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/djoefe.zip Movies are at: (at about 19.00 GMT) http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/suzuka.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/speed2.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo