& News About Upcoming Races
September 17, 1995
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 m...@cac.psu.edu.
Contents
Authors Point Standings
Upcoming Races
September 17 Competitors
September 17 Race Commentary
September 17 Race Report
solo speeds
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Expert Class Point standings
Randy Saint 59 pts (U.S.A.) Ramdu
Jussi Pajala 33.5 (Finland) WappuCar & Bubble
Safai Ma 32 pts (Canada) Burns
Mike Inman 24.5 (U.S.A.) Indretti
Oscar Gustafsson 20 pts (Sweden) OscCar2
Nicole Greiber 18 pts (Germany) Marvin & Sticky
Jeremy Weatherford 16 pts (U.S.A.) JXBot
Tony Cabe 11 pts (U.S.A.) Bacon
Bill Benedict 10 pts (U.S.A.) Rusty
Tim Battersby 10 pts (Canada) Emily
Muir Lee Harding 6 pts (U.S.A.) racer_X
Kim Laurio 6 pts (Sweden) Yaburu
Rob Creager 4 pts (U.S.A.) Stalker
Daniel Ash 3 pts (U.S.A.) Sarah
George Doster 2 pts (U.S.A.) JayMan1
Nathaniel Thurston 2 pts (U.S.A.) Phase
Novice Class Points:
Dennis Lew 14 pts (Canada) Menace
Tristrom Cooke 13 pt (Australia) Bingo1
Robert Skupinski 12.5 pts (U.S.A.) Carski
Grant Reeve 11 pts (New Zealand) Piranha
Larry Ludwick 10 pts (U.S.A.) MyHearse
Carl Burke 8 pts (U.S.A.) Blender2
Patrick Tierney 5 pts (Canada) Heath2
Henning Klaskala 4 (Germany) Shocker
Thomas Rooney 2 pts (U.S.A.) goCART
Ferd Trauttmansdorff 1.5 pts (Canada) StuckCar
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The Next Three RARS Race Meets
October 1: Stock Car Races!
All entries will be variations of the file STOCKER.CPP which
is on the ftp site. The only permissible variations are
changes to the value of any numbers appearing in the source
file, both integers and floating point. The driver is
essentially the Arelys robot with the passing code from
JackBot. The present set of experts will continue as the
expert class.
No. of races: 4 novice and 4 expert
Track: V03.TRK and TIMIN.TRK, 2 races each (for each class)
Laps: 25 each race
Software version: 0.63b (or latest variant of 0.60)
Surface type: 0
default starting order system.
October 15: (Unlimited Races, like before Stock Cars)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert
Tracks: S1.TRK and S2.TRK, one race on each
Laps: 80 each race
Software version: 0.63b (or latest variant of 0.60)
Surface Type: 1
no practice, random starting order.
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Competitors, September 17, Novice Class:
Lawrence Lee ? Canada
Larry Ludwick U.S.A. MyHearse
Robert Skupinski U.S.A. Carski
Kim Laurio Sweden Yaburu
Henning Klaskala Germany Shocker
Rob Creager U.S.A. Stalker
F. Trauttmansdorff Canada StuckCar
Competitors, September 17, Expert Class:
Tony Cabe U.S.A. Bacon
Nicole Greiber Germany Marvin
Randy Saint U.S.A. Ramdu
Jeremy Weatherford U.S.A. JXBot3
Rob Creager U.S.A. Stalker (made expert today)
Kim Laurio Sweden Yaburu (made expert today)
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Race Commentary by M. Timin
There was good competition among the stock cars racers today. Also,
they did not all follow the same line, as some had predicted. On the
contrary there was plenty of passing, and when several cars were in a
bunch they were as likely to be side by side as following in a line.
Kim Laurio chose the strategy of optimizing his driver, Yaburu, only
for the TIMIN track, and not competing on the V03 track. Yaburu was far and
away the fastest driver on the TIMIN track, and won every race on
that track. Of course he got no points for the races on V03.
Rob Creager's Stalker turned out to have just the right balance of
speed, passing skill, and reliability to pick up good points in every
race. His total led him to 1st place overall in the novice class,
and then third in expert.
Randy Saint's stock car version, named Ramdu as usual, was also
outstanding as usual. He was clearly the fastest on V03, and second
only to Yaburu on TIMIN. This gave him a 1st place overall in
expert.
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Novice Races:
6 cars for 25 laps. The track was v03.trk. The drivers were:
Canada, Carski, MyH, Shocker, StuckCar, and Stalker.
The initial RVG seed was 4004.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Shocker, StuckCar, MyH, Stalker, Carski, and Canada.
1 Shocker avg spd 62.87 25 laps 19135 damage 103 fuel 10 pts accum
2 StuckCar avg spd 62.69 25 laps 555 damage 103 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Stalker avg spd 61.9 24 laps 1817 damage 107 fuel 4 pts accum
4 MyH avg spd 60.91 24 laps 1023 damage 111 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Carski avg spd 60.41 24 laps 2309 damage 110 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Canada avg spd 58.88 23 laps 1410 damage 112 fuel 1 pts accum
results of race 2:
starting positions:
Canada, Carski, Stalker, MyH, StuckCar, and Shocker.
1 Stalker avg spd 61.91 25 laps 2517 damage 106 fuel 14 pts accum
2 MyH avg spd 60.98 25 laps 926 damage 110 fuel 9 pts accum
3 Carski avg spd 60.47 24 laps 2160 damage 110 fuel 6 pts accum
4 Canada avg spd 58.93 24 laps 2119 damage 111 fuel 4 pts accum
5 Shocker avg spd 60.99 9 laps 30254 damage 132 fuel 12 pts accum
6 StuckCar avg spd 58.66 2 laps 30321 damage 145 fuel 7 pts accum
7 cars for 25 laps. The track was timin.trk. The drivers were:
Yaburu, Canada, Carski, MyH, Shocker, StuckCar, and Stalker.
The initial RVG seed was 61188.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Yaburu, StuckCar, Stalker, Carski, MyH, Shocker, and Canada.
1 Yaburu avg spd 79.97 25 laps 1304 damage 48 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Shocker avg spd 77.32 25 laps 1132 damage 33 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Stalker avg spd 76.18 24 laps 1933 damage 42 fuel 4 pts accum
4 StuckCar avg spd 75.76 24 laps 21266 damage 34 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Carski avg spd 75.61 24 laps 275 damage 53 fuel 2 pts accum
6 MyH avg spd 75.4 24 laps 778 damage 50 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Canada avg spd 73.98 23 laps 482 damage 60 fuel 0 pts accum
results of race 2:
starting positions:
Canada, Shocker, MyH, Carski, Stalker, StuckCar, and Yaburu.
1 Yaburu avg spd 79.98 26 laps 816 damage 46 fuel 20 pts accum
2 Stalker avg spd 76.27 25 laps 6592 damage 40 fuel 10 pts accum
3 MyH avg spd 75.4 24 laps 10020 damage 49 fuel 5 pts accum
4 Carski avg spd 75.39 24 laps 16140 damage 52 fuel 5 pts accum
5 Canada avg spd 73.98 24 laps 853 damage 59 fuel 2 pts accum
6 StuckCar avg spd 0 0 laps 30281 damage 147 fuel 4 pts accum
7 Shocker avg spd 0 0 laps 30010 damage 147 fuel 6 pts accum
expert races:
5 cars for 25 laps. The track was v03.trk. The drivers were:
JXBot3, Irvin, Sticky, Ramdu, and Stalker.
The initial RVG seed was 64068.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Sticky, Irvin, Stalker, Ramdu, and JXBot3.
1 Ramdu avg spd 64.49 25 laps 862 damage 105 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Sticky avg spd 63.43 25 laps 1967 damage 103 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Stalker avg spd 61.97 24 laps 235 damage 108 fuel 4 pts accum
4 JXBot3 avg spd 61.36 24 laps 1357 damage 104 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Irvin avg spd 60.6 23 laps 5497 damage 112 fuel 2 pts accum
results of race 2:
starting positions:
JXBot3, Ramdu, Stalker, Irvin, and Sticky.
1 Ramdu avg spd 64.32 25 laps 2506 damage 104 fuel 20 pts accum
2 Sticky avg spd 63.36 25 laps 14824 damage 103 fuel 12 pts accum
3 Stalker avg spd 61.91 24 laps 863 damage 107 fuel 8 pts accum
4 JXBot3 avg spd 61.3 24 laps 4424 damage 105 fuel 6 pts accum
5 Irvin avg spd 60.87 24 laps 3320 damage 111 fuel 4 pts accum
6 cars for 25 laps. The track was timin.trk. The drivers were:
Yaburu, JXBot3, Irvin, Sticky, Ramdu, and Stalker.
The initial RVG seed was 42673.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Ramdu, Sticky, JXBot3, Yaburu, Irvin, and Stalker.
1 Yaburu avg spd 79.9 25 laps 5964 damage 49 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Ramdu avg spd 78.34 25 laps 3237 damage 45 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Stalker avg spd 76.3 24 laps 2154 damage 43 fuel 4 pts accum
4 JXBot3 avg spd 76.23 24 laps 2774 damage 41 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Irvin avg spd 75.85 24 laps 5363 damage 53 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Sticky avg spd 76.08 3 laps 30176 damage 134 fuel 1 pts accum
results of race 2:
starting positions:
Stalker, Irvin, Yaburu, JXBot3, Sticky, and Ramdu.
1 Yaburu avg spd 80 25 laps 1955 damage 49 fuel 20 pts accum
2 Ramdu avg spd 78.33 25 laps 11889 damage 45 fuel 12 pts accum
3 Stalker avg spd 76.29 24 laps 14019 damage 43 fuel 8 pts accum
4 JXBot3 avg spd 76.18 24 laps 2431 damage 40 fuel 6 pts accum
5 Irvin avg spd 75.94 24 laps 1387 damage 53 fuel 4 pts accum
6 Sticky avg spd 75.95 2 laps 30014 damage 140 fuel 2 pts accum
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Novice Points:
today season pts
Stalker 24 pts 10
Yaburu 20 pts 6
Shocker 18 pts 4
MyHearse 14 pts 3
Carski 11 pts 1.5
StuckCar 11 pts 1.5
Canada 6 0
Expert Points:
Ramdu 32 pts 10
Yaburu 20 pts 6
Stalker 16 pts 4
Sticky 14 pts 3
JXBot3 12 pts 2
Irvin 8 pts 1
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solo speeds on V03.TRK:
Ramdu avg spd 64.45 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
Sticky avg spd 63.41 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
Shocker avg spd 63.14 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
StuckCar avg spd 62.75 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
Stalker avg spd 61.98 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
JXBot3 avg spd 61.36 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
MyH avg spd 61 6 laps 0 damage 140 fuel
Irvin avg spd 60.87 6 laps 0 damage 140 fuel
Stocker avg spd 60.52 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
Carski avg spd 60.47 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
Canada avg spd 58.96 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
solo speeds on TIMIN.TRK:
Yaburu avg spd 79.97 6 laps 0 damage 125 fuel
Ramdu avg spd 78.38 6 laps 0 damage 124 fuel
Sticky avg spd 77.41 6 laps 0 damage 122 fuel
Shocker avg spd 77.31 6 laps 0 damage 121 fuel
Stalker avg spd 76.28 6 laps 0 damage 123 fuel
JXBot3 avg spd 76.18 6 laps 0 damage 122 fuel
Irvin avg spd 75.97 6 laps 0 damage 125 fuel
StuckCar avg spd 75.91 6 laps 0 damage 121 fuel
Stocker avg spd 75.6 6 laps 0 damage 125 fuel
Carski avg spd 75.56 6 laps 0 damage 125 fuel
MyH avg spd 75.43 6 laps 0 damage 124 fuel
Canada avg spd 73.99 6 laps 0 damage 126 fuel
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