RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races June 4th, 2000 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 website at http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm 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: June 4th No. of races 2 Tracks: monaco + alternate(fiorano) Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.74 Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 21535. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on monaco.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 72.873 mph by K1999 Time to qualify: 48.611 mph. 1 K1999 72.916 mph 2 Bulle2 72.659 mph 3 Sparky3 70.349 mph 4 DougE1 68.558 mph damage 1909 5 Felix15 67.845 mph 6 JOCOSA82 65.966 mph 7 Bulle 65.409 mph 8 Djoefe 57.944 mph 9 Apex8 56.620 mph 10 SAD01 55.158 mph damage 1133 11 DGN 52.649 mph damage 5199 _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: monaco.trk. Race length was 300.39 miles, 483.40 kilometers. Track record was 72.92 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 2 Bulle2 159 117 69.34 72.40 22900 1 3 238 129 10 2 1 K1999 -40.6 42 69.16 72.62 10777 9 3 263 151 6 3 3 Sparky3 158 0 68.71 70.59 18360 4 2 69 112 4 4 4 DougE1 152 0 65.88 68.52 8139 71 3 218 125 3 5 5 Felix15 151 0 65.51 67.81 2961 63 3 176 138 2 6 7 Bulle 146 0 63.56 65.51 15790 73 3 65 125 1 7 6 JOCOSA82 146 0 63.29 66.18 4812 131 5 230 141 0 8 8 Djoefe 128 0 55.77 58.16 18899 14 3 318 88 0 9 9 Apex8 128 0 55.58 57.51 6966 135 3 195 127 0 10 10 SAD01 116 0 50.53 55.93 2799 139 15 878 114 0 11 11 DGN 58 0 49.03 55.04 33302 115 6 499 50 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 25091. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: fiorano.trk. Race length was 150.99 miles, 242.99 kilometers. Track record was 74.95 mph by DougE1 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 8 K1999 81 39 73.87 77.27! 8208 25 1 115 34 10 2 6 Sparky3 -38.9 13 73.48 74.81 1706 4 1 24 55 6 3 10 DougE1 80 0 72.88 74.95! 4993 43 1 55 54 4 4 7 Bulle 79 0 71.59 73.37 17191 37 1 29 45 3 5 4 Bulle2 79 29 71.54 75.36! 7287 67 2 191 63 2 6 1 JOCOSA82 78 0 70.42 72.37 0 3 3 45 76 1 7 5 Felix15 77 0 69.42 72.50 13965 29 1 75 37 0 8 11 Apex8 76 0 68.86 69.81 7495 36 1 11 49 0 9 3 Djoefe 71 0 64.06 68.71 0 34 3 331 70 0 10 9 SAD01 55 0 50.07 62.56 11808 136 16 1072 52 0 11 2 DGN 51 0 52.49 65.30 32059 129 10 942 46 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ K1999 6 10 16 Felix15 2 0 2 JOCOSA82 0 1 1 Apex8 0 0 0 Djoefe 0 0 0 SAD01 0 0 0 DougE1 3 4 7 DGN 0 0 0 Sparky3 4 6 10 Bulle 1 3 4 Bulle2 10 2 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Driver's Standings K1999 126 pts (France) Remi Coulom Felix15 61 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld Sparky3 49 pts (UK) Tim Foden DougE1 40 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld JOCOSA82 31 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes Djoefe 16 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto Bulle 13 pts (Belgium) Marc Gueury Bulle2 12 pts (Belgium) Marc Gueury Apex8 12 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm SAD01 3 pts (Ireland) M.O'Neill & M.Nicolau DGN 1 pts (Italy) Nicola Della Gioia Constructor's Standings Remi Coulom 126 pts (France) K1999 Doug Eleveld 73 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix15 Tim Foden 49 pts (UK) Sparky2 Jorge Cervantes 31 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA82 Marc Gueury 22 pts (Belgium) Bulle Gian-Carlo Pascutto 16 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Maido Remm 12 pts (Estonia) Apex8 M.Nicolau / M.O'Neill 3 pts (Ireland) SAD01 Nicola Della Gioia 1 pts (Italy) DGN ------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments With a new Sparky and K1999 being submitted, I thought that the winner would certainly be one of those two. How wrong can one be. The evening before the race Marc submitted a new Bulle that was 'more competitive' but 'still needs some speed improvements'. Being only half a mph slower than K1999 in the qualifications, it blasted away and lead most of the race, nicely bringing in the victory and 10 pts for Marc. Very impressive. Although the bot is public, Marc has asked me not to distribute it until he gets a chance to clean it up a bit. The second race should have been trouble.trk, but the pits seem to be misplaced there, so I restarted the race on a new track. Fiorano was quite exciting, and it even looked like Bulle2 would bring in another victory, but K1999 demonstrated that it's 3 mph speed advantage still does the trick. Racing is about speed, after all. Drivers: k1999v03: see Remi's site. Sparky3, Bulle2: private Movies are at: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/moncao.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/fiorano.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo