The rars-digest is a compilation of choice cuts from the RARS mailing list.
It's published once a week to comp.ai.games, rec.autos.simulators, and to
individual subscribers. Send mail to dgy...@gdcarc.co.uk with a subject of
'subscribe rars-digest' to subscribe, or 'unsubscribe rars-digest' to
unsubscribe.
Contents
Re: GP tracks
6/25 races
exe62.zip
ftp site contents
RE: (no subject)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- RARS Bi-weekly Race Report RARS is the Robot Auto Racing Simulation, a competition for Contents Authors Point Standings Expert Class Point standings Novice Class Points: The Next Six RARS Race Meets June 25, July 23, August 20: July 9, August 6, September 3: June 25 Race Report: Competitors, Novice Class: Grant Reeve New Zealand Piranha Competitors, Expert Class: Bill Benedict U.S.A. Rusty The June 25 races on the oval track were the first using version Ramdu avg spd 73.33 7 laps 0 damage 142 fuel An interesting side issue is the fuel used to complete seven laps. There were two first-timers competing today, Nicole Greiber and 7 cars for 10 laps. The track was oval2.trk. The drivers were: The initial RVG seed was 58926. results of race 1: 1 Marvin avg spd 71.09 10 laps 5889 damage 138 fuel 10 pts accum results of race 2: 1 Marvin avg spd 70.96 10 laps 10573 damage 138 fuel 20 pts accum results of race 3: 1 Marvin avg spd 71.11 10 laps 4943 damage 138 fuel 30 pts accum results of race 4: 1 Marvin avg spd 70.92 10 laps 6461 damage 138 fuel 40 pts accum results of race 5: 1 Marvin avg spd 70.57 10 laps 10198 damage 137 fuel 50 pts accum results of race 6: 1 Marvin avg spd 70.75 10 laps 5257 damage 138 fuel 60 pts accum 7 cars for 10 laps. The track was oval2.trk. The drivers were: The initial RVG seed was 44070. results of race 1: 1 Burns avg spd 72.55 10 laps 4043 damage 139 fuel 10 pts accum results of race 2: 1 Ramdu avg spd 73.58 10 laps 1601 damage 138 fuel 13 pts accum results of race 3: 1 Burns avg spd 71.24 10 laps 27582 damage 139 fuel 24 pts accum results of race 4: 1 Ramdu avg spd 73.57 10 laps 3232 damage 138 fuel 27 pts accum results of race 5: 1 Ramdu avg spd 73.44 10 laps 0 damage 138 fuel 37 pts accum results of race 6: 1 Burns avg spd 72.58 10 laps 390 damage 140 fuel 40 pts accum 1st place Ramdu 43 pts Hello All, I just uploaded an executable in .zip form, it is called exe62.zip. Also in uploads are two more fine road courses from Ferdinand. m Hello All, For a while we have been encouraging contributors to accompany their Now the time has come for us to make that mandatory. On July 5 I plan to send a message to Jivko asking him to delete In some cases a group of two or more files might share the same .txt file. So, If you want your file to stay on the site, and if you have not sent Thank You, m Larry, I have implemented a windows-based gi.cpp for RARS using Microsoft Visual I haven't improved upon the original version much since then due to a MLH The rars-digest is compiled and published by (Dave `Gizmo' Gymer) # Dave "Gizmo" Gymer dgy...@gdcarc.co.uk http://www.mal.com/~dgymer/
Date sent: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 16:01:48 -0400
From: ao...@freenet.carleton.ca (Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff)
To: rars-l...@netcom.com
Subject: Re: GP tracks
Send reply to: ao...@freenet.carleton.ca
>Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff of Montreal has made RARS versions of 4
>international GP tracks. They are Estoril, Portugal; Suzuka, Japan,
>and Mosport and Montreal, both near Montreal, Canada.
>They are now in the uploads directory of the ftp site.
Montreal Grand Prix track (the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve) is located
right in Montreal. Hope you like the tracks. I'm working on some more.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Mitchell E. Timin" <m...@cac.psu.edu>
Subject: 6/25 races
To: rars-l...@netcom.com (Rars- List)
Date sent: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
& News About Upcoming Races
June 26, 1995
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. For more information e-mail to m...@cac.psu.edu.
Upcoming Races
June 25 Competitors
June 25 Race Commentary
June 25 Race Report
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Jussi Pajala 23 pts (Finland) WappuCar
Randy Saint 23 pts (U.S.A.) Ramdu
Safai Ma 16 pts (Canada) Burns
Tim Battersby 10 pts (Canada) Emily
Bill Benedict 9 pts (U.S.A.) Rusty
Mike Inman 9 pts (U.S.A.) Indretti
Muir Lee Harding 6 pts (U.S.A.) racer_X
Nicole Greiber 4 pts (Germany) Marvin
George Doster 2 pts (U.S.A.) JayMan1
Oscar Gustafsson 18 pts (Sweden) OscCar2
Tristrom Cooke 10 pt (Australia) Bingo1
Grant Reeve 9 pts (New Zealand) Piranha
Carl Burke 8 pts (U.S.A.) Blender2
Patrick Tierney 5 pts (Canada) Heath2
Thomas Rooney 2 pts (U.S.A.) goCART
--------------------------------------------------------------------
For the next twelve weeks we will have the oval track races three
times and the road races on the June 11 tracks three times. This is
to give the authors time to master passing, collision avoidance and
the geometry of the two road race tracks, S1.TRK and S2.TRK.
There is live race commentary on IRC channel #RARS, 5:00 PM EDT.
No. of races: 6 novice and 6 expert
Track: oval2
Laps: 10 each race
Software version: 0.62 (or latest variant of 0.60)
Surface type: 0
no practice on race day, practice at home all you want!
The default starting order system will be used, i.e. alternating
random and reversed.
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert
Tracks: S1.TRK and S2.TRK, one race on each
Laps: 80 each race
Software version: 0.62 (or latest variant of 0.60)
Surface Type: 1
no practice, random/reversed starting order.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Oscar Gustavsson Sweden OscCar2
Tristrom Cooke Australia Bingo1
Carl Burke U.S.A. Blender2
Nicole Greiber Germany Marvin
George Doster U.S.A. JayMan1
Patrick Tierney Canada Heath2
Safai Ma Canada Burns
Jussi Pajala Finland WappuCar
Randy Saint U.S.A. Ramdu
Mike Inman U.S.A. Indretti
Nicole Greiber Germany Marvin
George Doster U.S.A. JayMan1
0.62, with the improved collision code. Several of the robots were
using collision avoidance and passing algorithms, and these made a
difference, even though raw speed was still of at least equal
importance. In order to compare the race results with the speed
potential of each robot, here is a chart of their speed when running
alone on the track:
Burns avg spd 72.6 7 laps 0 damage 143 fuel
Marvin avg spd 71.22 7 laps 0 damage 141 fuel
WappuCar avg spd 70.56 7 laps 0 damage 142 fuel
Indretti avg spd 70.30 7 laps 0 damage 140 fuel
JayMan1 avg spd 69.65 7 laps 0 damage 144 fuel
Heath2 avg spd 69.08 7 laps 0 damage 143 fuel
OscCar2 avg spd 68.93 7 laps 0 damage 141 fuel
Piranha avg spd 68.66 7 laps 0 damage 142 fuel
Rusty avg spd 67.97 7 laps 0 damage 144 fuel
Bingo1 avg spd 67.92 7 laps 0 damage 140 fuel
Blender2 avg spd 67.72 7 laps 0 damage 140 fuel
It ranged from about 6 pounds, in the case of Rusty and JayMan1, to
about 10 pounds, for Indretti, Bingo1 and Blender2. This will become
important in some future races. The race reports below show that
much more fuel is necessary when there is traffic congestion.
George Doster. Both did very well, taking first and second in the
novice division, thereby becoming experts on their first day of
competition!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Novice Races
OscCar2, Marvin, JayMan1, Heath2, Piranha, Bingo1, and Blender2.
starting positions:
Blender2, Piranha, Heath2, JayMan1, Marvin, Bingo1, and OscCar2.
2 JayMan1 avg spd 69.67 10 laps 1173 damage 141 fuel 6 pts accum
3 OscCar2 avg spd 68.69 9 laps 9506 damage 137 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Bingo1 avg spd 67.73 9 laps 5243 damage 137 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Heath2 avg spd 67.72 9 laps 3999 damage 139 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Blender2 avg spd 67.16 9 laps 10458 damage 137 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Piranha avg spd 67.19 9 laps 8546 damage 138 fuel 0 pts accum
starting positions:
OscCar2, Bingo1, Marvin, JayMan1, Heath2, Piranha, and Blender2.
2 JayMan1 avg spd 69.65 10 laps 0 damage 141 fuel 12 pts accum
3 OscCar2 avg spd 68.88 9 laps 17529 damage 137 fuel 8 pts accum
4 Piranha avg spd 68.04 9 laps 10089 damage 138 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Bingo1 avg spd 67.66 9 laps 13892 damage 137 fuel 5 pts accum
6 Blender2 avg spd 66.99 9 laps 11496 damage 137 fuel 2 pts accum
7 Heath2 avg spd 66.82 9 laps 5381 damage 140 fuel 2 pts accum
starting positions:
OscCar2, Piranha, Heath2, JayMan1, Blender2, Marvin, and Bingo1.
2 JayMan1 avg spd 69.67 10 laps 131 damage 141 fuel 18 pts accum
3 OscCar2 avg spd 68.39 9 laps 10871 damage 137 fuel 12 pts accum
4 Blender2 avg spd 67.64 9 laps 0 damage 137 fuel 5 pts accum
5 Bingo1 avg spd 67.11 9 laps 19066 damage 137 fuel 7 pts accum
6 Piranha avg spd 67.12 9 laps 23258 damage 138 fuel 4 pts accum
7 Heath2 avg spd 66.88 9 laps 7366 damage 140 fuel 2 pts accum
starting positions:
Bingo1, Marvin, Blender2, JayMan1, Heath2, Piranha, and OscCar2.
2 JayMan1 avg spd 69.53 10 laps 5968 damage 141 fuel 24 pts accum
3 OscCar2 avg spd 68.67 9 laps 11358 damage 137 fuel 16 pts accum
4 Piranha avg spd 68.08 9 laps 3119 damage 138 fuel 7 pts accum
5 Bingo1 avg spd 67.93 9 laps 6689 damage 136 fuel 9 pts accum
6 Blender2 avg spd 67.49 9 laps 6146 damage 137 fuel 6 pts accum
7 Heath2 avg spd 67.08 9 laps 5774 damage 140 fuel 2 pts accum
starting positions:
Heath2, JayMan1, OscCar2, Piranha, Bingo1, Marvin, and Blender2.
2 OscCar2 avg spd 68.46 10 laps 12064 damage 137 fuel 22 pts accum
3 JayMan1 avg spd 68.25 9 laps 16071 damage 141 fuel 28 pts accum
4 Blender2 avg spd 67.62 9 laps 1258 damage 137 fuel 9 pts accum
5 Bingo1 avg spd 67.33 9 laps 15755 damage 136 fuel 11 pts accum
6 Piranha avg spd 67.25 9 laps 13415 damage 138 fuel 8 pts accum
7 Heath2 avg spd 66.76 9 laps 6884 damage 140 fuel 2 pts accum
starting positions:
Blender2, Marvin, Bingo1, Piranha, OscCar2, JayMan1, and Heath2.
2 JayMan1 avg spd 69.63 10 laps 16003 damage 141 fuel 34 pts accum
3 OscCar2 avg spd 68.67 9 laps 11429 damage 137 fuel 26 pts accum
4 Blender2 avg spd 67.73 9 laps 297 damage 137 fuel 12 pts accum
5 Bingo1 avg spd 67.85 9 laps 3757 damage 136 fuel 13 pts accum
6 Heath2 avg spd 67.41 9 laps 11617 damage 140 fuel 3 pts accum
7 Piranha avg spd 67.49 9 laps 6309 damage 138 fuel 8 pts accum
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Overall Results of Novice Races:
1st place Marvin 60 pts
2nd place JayMan1 34
3rd place OscCar2 26
4th placd Bingo1 13
5th placd Blender2 12
6th place Piranha 8
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Expert Races
Marvin, JayMan1, Indretti, Rusty, WappuCar, Ramdu, and Burns.
starting positions:
Ramdu, Marvin, JayMan1, Rusty, WappuCar, Burns, and Indretti.
2 Indretti avg spd 70.16 10 laps 2683 damage 137 fuel 6 pts accum
3 WappuCar avg spd 68.13 9 laps 6585 damage 139 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Ramdu avg spd 67.85 9 laps 21502 damage 138 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Marvin avg spd 67.51 9 laps 14758 damage 138 fuel 2 pts accum
6 JayMan1 avg spd 67.48 9 laps 12234 damage 141 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Rusty avg spd 65.27 9 laps 14094 damage 143 fuel 0 pts accum
starting positions:
Indretti, Burns, WappuCar, Rusty, JayMan1, Marvin, and Ramdu.
2 Marvin avg spd 71.07 10 laps 3423 damage 138 fuel 8 pts accum
3 Burns avg spd 70.92 9 laps 21435 damage 139 fuel 14 pts accum
4 JayMan1 avg spd 69.53 9 laps 13643 damage 141 fuel 4 pts accum
5 WappuCar avg spd 70.31 9 laps 3452 damage 139 fuel 6 pts accum
6 Rusty avg spd 67.47 9 laps 23049 damage 142 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Indretti avg spd 67.14 3 laps 30074 damage 145 fuel 6 pts accum
starting positions:
Ramdu, JayMan1, Marvin, Burns, Rusty, WappuCar, and Indretti.
2 Indretti avg spd 70.3 10 laps 6197 damage 137 fuel 12 pts accum
3 Ramdu avg spd 69.99 9 laps 8059 damage 138 fuel 17 pts accum
4 JayMan1 avg spd 69.34 9 laps 10890 damage 141 fuel 7 pts accum
5 Marvin avg spd 68.66 9 laps 22979 damage 138 fuel 10 pts accum
6 WappuCar avg spd 68.23 9 laps 25794 damage 138 fuel 7 pts accum
7 Rusty avg spd 67.78 9 laps 13108 damage 142 fuel 1 pts accum
starting positions:
Indretti, WappuCar, Rusty, Burns, Marvin, JayMan1, and Ramdu.
2 Marvin avg spd 71.07 10 laps 1486 damage 138 fuel 16 pts accum
3 JayMan1 avg spd 69.65 9 laps 12283 damage 141 fuel 11 pts accum
4 Indretti avg spd 69.35 9 laps 21728 damage 137 fuel 15 pts accum
5 Rusty avg spd 67.85 9 laps 14679 damage 142 fuel 3 pts accum
6 WappuCar avg spd 67.89 9 laps 23692 damage 138 fuel 8 pts accum
7 Burns avg spd 69.58 5 laps 31699 damage 143 fuel 24 pts accum
starting positions:
Rusty, Indretti, Burns, WappuCar, Ramdu, JayMan1, and Marvin.
2 Burns avg spd 72.34 10 laps 12601 damage 140 fuel 30 pts accum
3 Marvin avg spd 70.72 9 laps 15660 damage 138 fuel 20 pts accum
4 JayMan1 avg spd 69.58 9 laps 7951 damage 141 fuel 14 pts accum
5 Indretti avg spd 69.87 9 laps 9332 damage 137 fuel 17 pts accum
6 Rusty avg spd 67.85 9 laps 13373 damage 143 fuel 4 pts accum
7 WappuCar avg spd 68.04 9 laps 16833 damage 138 fuel 8 pts accum
starting positions:
Marvin, JayMan1, Ramdu, WappuCar, Burns, Indretti, and Rusty.
2 Ramdu avg spd 71.44 10 laps 23957 damage 138 fuel 43 pts accum
3 Marvin avg spd 70.82 9 laps 7580 damage 138 fuel 24 pts accum
4 Indretti avg spd 69.48 9 laps 20464 damage 137 fuel 20 pts accum
5 JayMan1 avg spd 68.31 9 laps 17639 damage 141 fuel 16 pts accum
6 Rusty avg spd 67.37 9 laps 21646 damage 142 fuel 5 pts accum
7 WappuCar avg spd 67.33 9 laps 27217 damage 138 fuel 8 pts accum
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Overall Results of Expert Races:
2nd place Burns 40
3rd place Marvin 24
4th placc Indretti 20
5th place JayMan1 16
6th place WappuCar 8
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Mitchell E. Timin" <m...@cac.psu.edu>
Subject: exe62.zip
To: rars-l...@netcom.com (Rars- List)
Date sent: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 21:35:36 -0400 (EDT)
This contains all the competitors of the June 25 oval track races, plus
some of my robots. Most of the robots are specialized for the oval track
and are mediocre on road courses.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Mitchell E. Timin" <m...@cac.psu.edu>
Subject: ftp site contents
To: rars-l...@netcom.com (Rars- List)
Date sent: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 10:37:36 -0400 (EDT)
contribution with a short .txt file describing what it is.
all files in the rars directory that do not have an accompanying .txt file.
This does not apply to short files containing readable text. It does not
apply to the various sub-directories.
a .txt file describing what is in it, then please do so now.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date sent: Wed, 28 Jun 95 15:32:03 PDT
From: Muir Lee Harding <l...@autodesk.com>
Subject: RE: (no subject)
To: rars-l...@netcom.com, Larry Ludwick
<Larry.Ludw...@gte.sprint.com>
C++ that works pretty well. In doing so I encountered many of the same
problems that you ran into (I had never programed a Windows app before).
apparent lack of intrest in the RARS community. I'd be glad to help if you
decide to build a Borland version, or would like to have me renew work on my
version (I was planning on adding support for driver functions that are
supplied in the form of a windows dlls. This could dramatically simplify the
process of creating and using drivers -- no need to recompile the main
program every time you want to add new drivers!!!).
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
dgy...@gdcarc.co.uk http://www.mal.com/~dgymer
/* Team Shark online racing; http://www.mal.com/~dgymer/shark/
LF3000 '95 Pro division triple champions */