RARS Bi-weekly Race Report
& News About Upcoming Races
April 27, 1997
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 mindw...@cftnet.com or
rsc...@netusa.net. Or visit the Rars website at
http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm
Contents
Submissions
Todays Races
Preliminary lap times
Race Report
Authors Point Standings
Upcoming Races
Comments
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Submissions
Please! Any people who want to submit for the first time please
give yourselves more than a day or two (I made that mistake when
I started). Submissions are to be SOURCE CODE only.
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Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races:
April 27th, (Unlimited Division Races)
No. of races 2
Tracks: Castle Combe, Brands Hatch (alternate Imola)
Laps: not less than 100/200 miles
Software version: 0.64
Surface Type: 1
no practice, random starting order.
This is a modified .64 where all cars must cross the finish line
once before the race is over.
The drivers will be uploaded to ftp.ijs.com to a file called
driv0427.zip after the 4-27 session. These will only be expert drivers
updated this session Lisa14, and Jammer.
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Preliminary lap times
Brands Hatch (Brands.trk)
Car Laps Avg MPH Damage Notes
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Lisa14 88.80 Updated
Bulle 82.98 New
Ralph2 81.48
Jas 81.30
Magic 78.79
Apex 78.58
Jammer 75.36 Update
RW 74.03 +30000
Lilbamb 73.32
Buenos Aries (Imola.trk)
Car Laps Avg MPH Damage Notes
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Lisa14 81.88 Updated
Bulle 81.74 New
Ralph2 79.66
Magic 73.33
Jas 69.80
RW 68.23 +30000
Apex 67.81
Jammer 67.49 Updated
Lilbamb 65.82
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Race Reports
With only one competing expert, I only ran the novices with the experts
as traffic.
Combined Race 1: mv0427c1.zip
9 cars for 33 laps. The track was imola.trk. The drivers were:
Ralph2, Lisa, LilBam, Jas, Jammer, RW, Magic, Apex8,
and Bulle.
The initial RVG seed was 6125.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Magic, RW, Lisa, LilBam, Apex8, Jammer, Jas, Ralph2,
and Bulle.
1 Magic avg spd 72.62 33 laps 28477 damage 139 fuel 10 pts
accum
2 Jas avg spd 68.51 32 laps 27271 damage 143 fuel 6 pts
accum
3 Jammer avg spd 67.3 31 laps 19872 damage 144 fuel 4 pts
accum
4 Apex8 avg spd 67.05 31 laps 12118 damage 1 fuel 3 pts
accum
5 Lisa avg spd 64.99 24 laps 30378 damage 24 fuel 2 pts
accum
6 Bulle avg spd 63.39 16 laps 30169 damage 58 fuel 1 pts
accum
7 Ralph2 avg spd 76.48 8 laps 30457 damage 111 fuel 0 pts
accum
8 LilBam avg spd 63.58 6 laps 30341 damage 111 fuel 0 pts
accum
9 RW avg spd 68.04 2 laps 30174 damage 136 fuel 0 pts
accum
Combined Race 2: mv0427c2.zip
9 cars for 41 laps. The track was brands.trk. The drivers were:
Ralph2, Lisa, LilBam, Jas, Jammer, RW, Magic, Apex8,
and Bulle.
The initial RVG seed was 51690.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Jammer, Apex8, Bulle, Magic, Lisa, Jas, Ralph2, RW,
and LilBam.
1 Bulle avg spd 79.31 41 laps 16922 damage 148 fuel 10 pts
accum
2 Jas avg spd 78.87 41 laps 25467 damage 13 fuel 6 pts
accum
3 Magic avg spd 78.58 41 laps 18287 damage 15 fuel 4 pts
accum
4 Lisa avg spd 78.58 41 laps 18223 damage 139 fuel 3 pts
accum
5 Apex8 avg spd 77.33 40 laps 26190 damage 9 fuel 2 pts
accum
6 Jammer avg spd 75.46 40 laps 16863 damage 25 fuel 1 pts
accum
7 Ralph2 avg spd 79.5 24 laps 30136 damage 69 fuel 0 pts
accum
8 RW avg spd 74.31 1 laps 30317 damage 143 fuel 0 pts
accum
9 LilBam avg spd 62.51 1 laps 30243 damage 144 fuel 0 pts
accum
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Points for Day
Driver Race 1 Race 2 Total Finish Seasons Seasons Total
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Lisa 2 3 5 4 3 2 3 10 nr 18
Jas 6 6 12 3 6 10 4 6 nr 26
Lilbamb 0 0.5 0.5 4 nr 5
RW 0 0.5 10 nr nr 10.5
Jammer 4 1 5 4 3 3.5 6 nr nr 12.5
Magic 10 4 14 1 8 6 nr nr nr 14
Apex 3 2 5 4 3 3.5 nr nr nr 6.5
Bulle 1 10 14 1 8 nr nr nr nr 6
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Finishes This is the point standings for the Unlimited Division. Henning Klaskala 18.0 pts (Germany) Lisa Juergen Sang j...@darkstar.bb.bawue.de Upcoming RARS Race Meets RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1) TENTATIVE RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1, v.64) Bulle makes a fine first showing. *I* crashed out early. Harumph!
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6
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Lisa 18 1 0 0 2 0 0
Jas 26 1 1 2 0 0 0
Lilbamb 5 0 0 1 0 2 0
RW 10.5 1 0 0 0 1 0
Jammer 12 0 1 1 1 0 0
Magic 14 1 1 0 0 0 0
Apex 6.5 0 0 1 1 0 0
Bulle 6 1 0 0 0 0 0
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Jurgen Sang 26.0 pts (Germany) Jas
Al Davis 5.0 pts (US) LilBambi
Robert Wilderspin 10.5 pts (Britain) RW
Kim Laurio 12.0 pts (Sweden) Jammer
Sebastien Tixier 14.0 pts (France) Magic
Maido Remm 6.5 pts (Estonia) Apex
Marc Gueury 6.0 pts (Belgium) Bulle
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This is the RARS address book.
Henning Klaskala bm321...@muenchen.org
Al Davis adavis5...@aol.com
Kim Laurio k...@ida.his.se
Robert Wilderspin r...@feverish.demon.co.uk
Sebastien Tixier s-tix...@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr
Maido Remm mr...@ebc.ee
Marc Gueury marc.gue...@skynet.be
May 11th, Castle Combe and Brands Hatch, Unlimited 100 Miles
Alternate: Monaco (Monaco.trk)
May 25th, Castle Combe and Brands Hatch, Unlimited 100 Miles
Alternate: Barcelona Catalunya (barcelon.trk)
Tentative Alternates:
May 11 -- Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo.
May 25 -- Spanish Grand Prix, Barcelona.
June 15 -- Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal.
June 29 -- French Grand Prix, Magny Cours.
July 13 -- British Grand Prix, Silverstone.
July 27 -- German Grand Prix, Hockenheim.
Aug. 10 -- Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest.
Aug. 24 -- Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps.
Sept. 7 -- Italian Grand Prix, Monza.
Sept. 21 -- Austrian Grand Prix, Osterreichring
Sept. 28 -- Luxembourg Grand Prix, Nurburgring.
Oct. 12 -- Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka.
Oct. 26 -- Portuguese Grand Prix, Estoril.
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Comments from Ralph
All of the points have been recomputed from the start. All the races
will be run at 100 miles length.