RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races May 21st, 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: May 21st No. of races 2 Tracks: nurnburg + random Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.74 Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.74 Track surface type 1. 10 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 23355. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on nurnburg.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 92.000 mph by DougE1 Time to qualify: 62.489 mph. 1 K1999 93.734 mph 2 Sparky2 92.315 mph 3 DougE1 91.955 mph 4 Felix15 90.286 mph 5 JOCOSA82 87.770 mph 6 Bulle 86.683 mph 7 Apex8 81.347 mph 8 Djoefe 79.936 mph 9 SAD01 75.708 mph 10 DGN 74.573 mph damage 3530 _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: nurnburg.trk. Race length was 302.59 miles, 486.94 kilometers. Track record was 93.73 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 2 Sparky2 105 39 89.57 92.18 10468 1 3 57 105 10 2 1 K1999 -11.1 66 89.49 93.55 7460 21 2 151 79 6 3 4 Felix15 103 0 87.48 90.24 591 36 2 84 74 4 4 3 DougE1 102 0 86.35 91.51 3534 28 4 316 100 3 5 5 JOCOSA82 101 0 85.49 87.61 9904 37 3 74 74 2 6 6 Bulle 100 0 84.99 86.56 9324 8 2 14 68 1 7 7 Apex8 94 0 80.00 81.98 15369 21 2 90 66 0 8 8 Djoefe 92 0 78.09 80.00 12390 59 2 22 71 0 9 9 SAD01 85 0 72.46 76.47 0 143 4 341 84 0 10 10 DGN 51 0 69.41 74.40 30044 69 3 347 36 0 RARS version 0.74 Track surface type 1. 9 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 26741. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: random.trk. Race length was 150.1 miles, 241.54 kilometers. Track record was 0.000 mph by Nobody F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 7 K1999 41 38 113.2 116.8! 5833 8 1 0 40 10 2 6 Felix15 40 1 110.0 112.3! 2940 18 1 7 37 6 3 3 JOCOSA82 40 0 107.8 110.2! 2719 134 2 23 37 4 4 2 Sparky2 38 2 102.8 114.5! 10653 25 3 241 31 3 5 5 Bulle 38 0 102.7 104.6! 4669 121 1 7 32 2 6 4 Djoefe 37 0 101.1 102.3! 6651 25 1 1 35 1 7 9 Apex8 37 0 99.60 101.0! 555 74 1 7 35 0 8 8 DGN 28 0 77.03 87.07! 9462 111 2 275 22 0 9 1 SAD01 28 0 97.33 102.9! 30006 120 1 137 22 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ K1999 6 10 16 Felix15 4 6 10 JOCOSA82 2 4 6 Apex8 0 0 0 Djoefe 0 1 1 SAD01 0 0 0 DougE1 3 0 3 DGN 0 0 0 Sparky2 10 3 13 Bulle 1 2 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Driver's Standings K1999 110 pts (France) Remi Coulom Felix15 59 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld Sparky2 39 pts (UK) Tim Foden DougE1 33 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld JOCOSA82 30 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes Djoefe 16 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto Apex8 12 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm Bulle 9 pts (Belgium) Marc Gueury SAD01 3 pts (Ireland) M.O'Neill & M.Nicolau DGN 1 pts (Italy) Nicola Della Gioia Constructor's Standings Remi Coulom 110 pts (France) K1999 Doug Eleveld 66 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix15 Tim Foden 39 pts (UK) Sparky2 Jorge Cervantes 30 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA82 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 16 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Maido Remm 12 pts (Estonia) Apex8 Marc Gueury 9 pts (Belgium) Bulle M.Nicolau / M.O'Neill 3 pts (Ireland) SAD01 Nicola Della Gioia 1 pts (Italy) DGN ------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments The nurnburg race was rather heavy, with lots of damage and a lot of passing to be done. I believe that was the main reason why Sparky managed to finish first, very closely followed by K1999. The random track was long and high-speed, so the race was a bit less spectacular. K199 got a bad start, but once ahead, never looked back. Drivers: no updates Movies are at: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/nurnburg.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/random.zip Tracks: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/random.trk Greetings, Gian-Carlo