RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races May 12th, 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: May 12th No. of races 2 Tracks: austria + random Miles: not less than 300 Software version: 0.90b Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.90 Track surface type 1 10 cars for 114 laps over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 5183 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Race 1 : Track austria.trk Race length was 300.29 miles, 483.24 kilometers. Track record was 93.78 mph by K1999 F S Driver Laps Lead Speed Best Damage Fuel Pits Time Last Pnts 1 7 K1999 114 102 90.21 94.04! 6304 13 2 142 75 21 2 9 K2001 113 7 89.29 91.20 4787 18 2 21 78 16 3 5 Bulle2 111 5 87.20 91.57 20280 7 2 183 72 14 4 2 SmoothB 108 0 85.31 88.37 11691 21 2 89 81 12 5 4 BigRed 100 0 79.10 86.45 13899 73 5 491 81 10 6 10 Djoefe 100 0 78.77 81.40 13906 59 3 125 93 8 7 6 O1 97 0 76.03 78.80 0 145 3 242 96 6 8 8 OscCar2 92 0 72.27 78.93 13490 79 3 385 76 5 9 3 Mafanja 28 0 72.10 78.85 30589 88 2 223 13 4 10 1 J++ 0 0 0.00 0.00 3365 0 1 0 1 3 RARS version 0.90 Track surface type 1 10 cars for 507 laps over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 5388 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Race 1 : Track random.trk Race length was 300.14 miles, 483.00 kilometers. Track record was 0.00 mph by Nobody F S Driver Laps Lead Speed Best Damage Fuel Pits Time Last Pnts 1 9 K1999 180 43 83.98 88.08! 9666 5 2 140 111 20 2 1 K2001 -14.98 137 83.88 86.28! 6124 12 2 41 126 17 3 4 Bulle2 173 0 80.33 84.79! 11699 53 3 325 170 14 4 5 SmoothB 165 0 76.75 78.94! 5345 34 2 50 126 12 5 7 J++ 164 0 76.42 78.29! 20260 1 2 97 98 10 6 8 Mafanja 153 0 71.00 72.80! 3124 13 2 112 139 8 7 10 Djoefe 150 0 69.66 71.89! 7656 65 2 115 114 6 8 3 O1 145 0 67.31 68.83! 7399 44 2 103 106 5 9 2 BigRed 137 0 63.73 66.30! 2880 105 2 177 118 4 10 6 OscCar2 81 0 70.83 72.87! 34087 82 1 45 55 3 Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------ K1999 20 21 41 K2001 16 17 33 Bulle2 14 14 28 Djoefe 8 6 14 O1 6 5 11 OscCar2 5 3 8 Mafanja 4 8 12 SmoothB 12 12 24 BigRed 10 4 14 J++ 3 10 13 ------------------------------------ Driver's Standings K1999 189 pts (France) Remi Coulom K2001 161 pts (France) Remi Coulom Bulle2 126 pts (Belgium) Marc Gueury SmoothB 110 pts (USA) Dennis Lew J++ 77 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes BigRed 64 pts (USA) Daniel R. Collins Mafanja 61 pts (Germany) Eugen Treise Djoefe 55 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto OscCar2 50 pts (Sweden) Oscar Gustafsson O1 47 pts (Sweden) Oscar Gustafsson Constructor's Standings Remi Coulom 189 pts (France) K2001, K1999 Marc Gueury 126 pts (Belgium) Bulle2 Dennis Lew 110 pts (France) SmoothB Jorge Cervantes 77 pts (Mexico) J++ Daniel R Collins 64 pts (USA) BigRed Eugen Treise 61 pts (Germany) Mafanja Oscar Gustafsson 56 pts (Sweden) O1, OscCar2 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 55 pts (Belgium) Djoefe ------------------------------------------------------------------- Movies are at: http://rars.sourceforge.net/ftp/austria.zip http://rars.sourceforge.net/ftp/random.zip Comments: I changed to mailing list to allow posting by members only a while ago to stop spam, but it seems that many people are posting with a different address than the one they subscribed with, causing me having to approve nearly all posts. I changed the setting back, but it seems that SourceForge has a few bugs and kept restricting the list. I've mailed support and they're on to it. Bottom line: the 'message being held for moderator approval' stuff should be fixed soon. -- GCP