RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races March 3rd, 2002 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: March 3rd No. of races 2 Tracks: albrtprk + alternate (doningtn) Miles: not less than 300 Software version: 0.90b Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.90b Track surface type 0 9 cars for 92 laps over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 21822 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Race 1 : Track albrtprk.trk Race length was 301.28 miles, 484.83 kilometers. Track record was 0.00 mph by Nobody F S Driver Laps Lead Speed Best Damage Fuel Pits Time Last Pnts 1 8 K1999 92 90 97.80 101.56! 6573 12 2 72 69 21 2 5 K2001 88 0 93.28 95.87! 8708 31 2 59 64 16 3 1 BigRed 79 2 83.96 88.31! 4083 89 3 230 66 14 4 7 Bulle2 78 0 82.17 92.42! 18815 127 6 791 74 12 5 6 O1 74 0 78.41 80.40! 2214 27 2 130 52 10 6 4 Djoefe 74 0 77.63 79.18! 11702 86 2 17 69 8 7 2 SmoothB2 9 0 78.97 88.67! 30006 125 1 100 5 6 8 3 OscCar2 0 0 0.00 0.00 44489 147 0 0 0 5 9 9 Mafanja 0 0 0.00 0.00 85847 146 0 0 0 4 RARS version 0.90 Track surface type 0 9 cars for 118 laps over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 22105 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Race 1 : Track doningtn.trk Race length was 300.78 miles, 484.04 kilometers. Track record was 0.00 mph by Nobody F S Driver Laps Lead Speed Best Damage Fuel Pits Time Last Pnts 1 2 K1999 118 118 82.34 86.01! 11639 59 3 148 103 21 2 8 K2001 116 0 80.38 83.13! 6450 24 3 87 112 16 3 5 Mafanja 104 0 71.88 73.40! 8476 24 2 83 73 14 4 9 Djoefe 98 0 68.12 69.19! 11187 70 2 23 78 12 5 7 O1 97 0 67.65 70.17! 11296 112 3 307 90 10 6 1 OscCar2 89 0 62.47 69.66! 2171 146 7 905 89 8 7 6 Bulle2 86 0 59.41 73.58! 14701 135 13 1696 83 6 8 4 BigRed 75 0 52.13 62.53! 11965 133 14 1552 72 5 9 3 SmoothB2 8 0 64.38 72.03! 30001 132 1 100 5 4 Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------ K1999 21 21 42 K2001 16 16 32 Bulle2 12 6 18 Djoefe 8 12 20 O1 10 10 20 OscCar2 5 8 13 Mafanja 4 14 18 SmoothB2 6 4 10 BigRed 14 5 19 ------------------------------------ Driver's Standings - not counting yet Constructor's Standings - not counting yet ------------------------------------------------------------------- Movies are at: http://rars.sourceforge.net/ftp/doningtn.zip http://rars.sourceforge.net/ftp/albrtprk.zip Comments I had a few issues with the software. For a change, most drivers compiled fairly well or with minimal changes. However, running in -nd mode simply crashed the simulation. Also, in the race result report the name of SmoothB was garbled, and the software crashed halfway through writing out the second report. I'm not sure if the driver or RARS itself is to blame. The surface was supposed to be 1 (hard), but it seems RARS defaulted to 0 (soft) instead. Ideally, I'd like to make it 2 (hard+skidding) for the next races. If that is problematic for someone, please speak up. If your driver did much worse than expected and you can't reproduce the problem, please also speak up. Results from this race will not count towards the season totals. The next race will. Greetings, Gian-Carlo