RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races August 19th, 2001 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 gcp@sjeng.org. Or visit the Rars website at http://rars.sourceforge.net Contents Todays Races Race Report Driver Point Standings Authors Point Standings News Comments Here is a repeat of the announcement: August 19th No. of races 2 Tracks: hungary + alternate(adelaide) Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.83 Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.83 Track surface type 1. 14 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 19765. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: hungary.trk. Race length was 301.82 miles, 485.72 kilometers. Track record was 86.26 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 11 Dodger8 120 96 83.91 86.69! 6978 3 2 48 95 21 2 6 K1999 -13.4 14 83.82 87.39! 14412 12 2 73 86 16 3 9 Sparky 117 10 81.56 83.81 18952 10 2 118 95 14 4 8 Bulle2 117 0 81.23 83.31 15224 17 2 65 86 12 5 13 K2001 116 0 80.70 83.68 10829 32 3 128 115 10 6 12 Felix 113 0 78.61 80.96 8873 55 2 100 86 8 7 4 SmoothB2 110 0 76.44 79.45 9808 45 2 65 88 6 8 10 Jocosa 108 0 75.31 78.58 552 125 3 217 100 5 9 5 J++ 107 0 74.44 78.63 11957 114 5 368 96 4 10 14 OscCar2 101 0 70.62 71.92 9451 8 2 99 68 3 11 2 Apex8 101 0 70.50 72.49 7722 70 2 163 80 2 12 7 Mafanja 100 0 70.99 73.29 33655 18 4 187 96 1 13 1 O1 98 0 68.31 70.53 4148 143 3 180 97 0 14 3 Djoefe 82 0 58.21 70.80 30058 139 15 1627 80 0 RARS version 0.83 Track surface type 1. 14 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 20111. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: adelaide.trk. Race length was 150.78 miles, 242.64 kilometers. Track record was 88.30 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 7 Dodger8 63 62 85.50 88.43! 8447 1 1 4 48 21 2 8 K1999 -43.0 0 84.93 88.89! 15418 11 1 5 45 16 3 13 Sparky 62 0 83.64 85.89 17180 6 1 19 46 14 4 10 K2001 61 0 81.49 85.89 11587 18 1 87 23 12 5 12 Bulle2 59 0 79.54 87.11 25997 87 2 257 44 10 6 9 Felix 58 0 78.40 81.83 8061 61 1 77 42 8 7 6 J++ 58 0 77.84 82.06 19637 26 1 96 23 6 8 4 Jocosa 56 0 75.53 82.24 14660 24 2 284 20 5 9 1 Apex8 55 1 74.29 75.26 12630 50 1 11 39 4 10 11 Djoefe 53 0 71.35 73.29 9741 110 2 60 43 3 11 3 Mafanja 53 0 71.07 72.86 2160 28 1 66 37 2 12 5 SmoothB2 52 0 70.14 73.91 25676 131 4 140 48 1 13 2 OscCar2 51 0 68.81 71.50 10220 4 1 144 18 0 14 14 O1 51 0 68.73 71.17 14928 14 1 139 19 0 Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------ K1999 16 16 32 K2001 10 12 22 Jocosa 5 5 10 Sparky 14 14 28 Dodger 21 21 42 Bulle2 12 10 22 Felix 8 8 16 Apex8 2 4 6 Djoefe 0 3 3 O1 0 0 0 OscCar2 3 0 3 Mafanja 1 2 3 Jpp 4 6 10 SmoothB2 6 1 7 ------------------------------------ Driver's Standings K1999 467 pts (France) Remi Coulom Dodger 434 pts (UK) Tim Foden K2001 339 pts (France) Remi Coulom Sparky 311 pts (UK) Tim Foden Bulle2 280 pts (Belgium) Marc Gueury Felix 213 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld Jocosa 149 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes Apex8 116 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm Djoefe 110 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto Jpp 29 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes OscCar2 23 pts (Sweden) Oscar Gustafsson O1 23 pts (Sweden) Oscar Gustafsson SmoothB 13 pts (?) Dennis Lew Mafanja 11 pts (Germany) Eugen Treise Constructor's Standings Remi Coulom 490 pts (France) K1999, K2001 Tim Foden 434 pts (UK) Sparky, Dodger Marc Gueury 275 pts (Belgium) Bulle2 Doug Eleveld 197 pts (Netherlands) Felix Jorge Cervantes 153 pts (Mexico) Jocosa, Jpp Maido Remm 121 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 110 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Oscar Gustafsson 25 pts (Sweden) O1, OscCar2 Dennis Lew 13 pts (?) SmoothB Eugen Treise 11 pts (Germany) Mafanja ------------------------------------------------------------------- Movies are at (I hope): ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/hungary.zip ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/adelaide.zip Updated drivers: ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/mafanja3.cpp ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/SmoothB.zip ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/k1999v13.cpp.gz ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/dodger11.zip Comments A lot of driver updates for this race. Tim Foden mailed me several new drivers, but when I wanted to use them for the race they crashed :( I had to revert to the last working version. Given the results, that wasn't too bad after all. I'll be very busy till half - september, so it may be hard to reach me. Greetings, Gian-Carlo