RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races April 15th, 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: April 15th No. of races 2 Tracks: imola + random Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.81 + all patches Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.8 Track surface type 1. 10 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 7991. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: imola.trk. Race length was 302.44 miles, 486.71 kilometers. Track record was 99.08 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 8 K1999 98 96 95.59 100.3! 15951 8 2 56 74 21 2 5 K2001 96 0 93.23 96.68 8830 23 2 59 71 16 3 10 Dodger5 96 0 92.82 98.21 7111 19 2 152 61 14 4 3 Sparky 96 0 92.69 96.43 14227 14 2 91 73 12 5 2 Bulle2 91 2 88.54 92.96 7990 22 2 188 60 10 6 1 Felix 85 0 82.46 86.71 1932 104 3 239 79 8 7 4 Jocosa 85 0 82.10 85.21 10034 96 2 118 72 6 8 6 Apex8 74 0 72.04 76.50 5221 79 2 208 60 5 9 7 Djoefe 71 0 69.21 73.37 1284 117 4 171 65 4 10 9 Apex1 2 0 55.23 56.86 30012 134 0 0 0 3 RARS version 0.8 Track surface type 1. 10 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 1491. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: random.trk. Race length was 150.12 miles, 241.58 kilometers. Track record was 0.000 mph by Nobody F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 6 K1999 124 112 75.78 79.26! 15913 26 1 63 52 21 2 2 K2001 -1.54 0 75.76 79.00! 9131 5 1 63 41 16 3 1 Dodger5 123 12 74.80 78.55! 22743 3 1 76 63 14 4 7 Sparky 120 0 72.98 77.27! 17712 11 2 153 60 12 5 10 Bulle2 117 0 71.16 74.70! 14555 41 1 126 71 10 6 9 Felix 115 0 69.69 72.14! 11687 70 1 76 72 8 7 8 Jocosa 105 0 64.13 68.41! 1869 129 2 175 94 6 8 4 Djoefe 97 0 59.25 61.63! 13551 32 2 106 37 5 9 3 Apex8 85 0 51.83 54.97! 5385 109 1 126 63 4 10 5 Apex1 3 0 36.38 38.21! 30012 139 0 0 0 3 Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------ K1999 21 21 42 K2001 16 16 32 Jocosa 6 6 12 Sparky 12 12 24 Dodger 14 14 28 Bulle2 10 10 20 Felix 8 8 16 Apex8 5 4 9 Apex1 3 3 6 Djoefe 4 5 9 ------------------------------------ Driver's Standings Dodger 140 pts (UK) Tim Foden K1999 114 pts (France) Remi Coulom Sparky 101 pts (UK) Tim Foden K2001 95 pts (France) Remi Coulom Bulle2 84 pts (Belgium) Marc Gueury Felix 72 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld Djoefe 44 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto Jocosa 43 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes Apex8 39 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm Apex1 31 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm Constructor's Standings Tim Foden 140 pts (UK) Sparky, Dodger Remi Coulom 132 pts (France) K1999 Marc Gueury 94 pts (Belgium) Bulle2 Doug Eleveld 72 pts (Netherlands) Doug, Felix Maido Remm 45 pts (Estonia) Apex8, Apex1 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 44 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Jorge Cervantes 43 pts (Mexico) Jocosa ------------------------------------------------------------------- Drivers: New K1999 and K2001. Movies are at : ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/imola.zip ftp://rars.sourceforge.net/pub/rars/random.zip Comments Amazingly similar results in both races. Only Apex and Djoefe switched places. Both the high and low end of the standings are close too...Remi is making up for the lost points fast and there is only 1 point of difference between the last 3 contenders. Time to optimize Djoefe :) Greetings, Gian-Carlo