RARS Bi-weekly Race Report
& News About Upcoming Races
September 3, 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 [email hidden].
Contents
Authors Point Standings
Upcoming Races
September 3 Competitors
September 3 Race Commentary
September 3 Race Report
solo speeds
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Expert Class Point standings
Randy Saint 49 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 15 pts (Germany) Marvin
Jeremy Weatherford 14 pts (U.S.A.) JXBot
Bill Benedict 10 pts (U.S.A.) Rusty
Tim Battersby 10 pts (Canada) Emily
Tony Cabe 10 pts (U.S.A.) Bacon
Muir Lee Harding 6 pts (U.S.A.) racer_X
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
Grant Reeve 11 pts (New Zealand) Piranha
Robert Skupinski 11 pts (U.S.A.) Carski
Carl Burke 8 pts (U.S.A.) Blender2
Larry Ludwick 7 pts (U.S.A.) MyHearse
Patrick Tierney 5 pts (Canada) Heath2
Thomas Rooney 2 pts (U.S.A.) goCART
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The Next Three RARS Race Meets
September 17 and 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:
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 3, Novice Class:
Dennis Lew Canada Menace
Larry Ludwick U.S.A. MyHearse
Robert Skupinski U.S.A. Carski
Competitors, September 3, Expert Class:
Daniel Ash U.S.A. Sarah
Bill Benedict U.S.A. Rusty
Tony Cabe U.S.A. Bacon
Nicole Greiber Germany Marvin
Oscar Gustafsson Sweden OscCar2
Mike Inman U.S.A. Indretti
Safai Ma Canada Burns
Jussi Pajala Finland WappuCar
Randy Saint U.S.A. Ramdu
Jeremy Weatherford U.S.A. JXBot3
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Race Commentary by M. Timin
OscCar2, by Oscar Gustafsson of Sweden, was the overall winner in the
expert class, taking first place on the S1 track, and second place on
the S2 track. A new version of Bacon, by Tony Cabe took 1st on S2.
Four weeks ago OscCar2 took first place on both of these tracks. We
wonder, will he continue to dominate S1 and S2 when we again race on
these tracks, on October 15?
Success went to the steady in today's long road races, but ability to
quickly pass a slower car was also very important. There was a lot
of passing and re-passing during all of the expert races, and many
duels for a spot near the front. Sometimes a fast driver will get
confused by the traffic and go into the dirt briefly, losing a
position or two, and accumulating damage. Damage defeated most
of the competitors. Of the ten experts competing, only three
finished the race on S1, and only two on S2!
WappuCar held the lead for many laps in both expert races. His
problems began when he began to lap the slower cars. He seemed
unable to pass two slower cars that were staying close together. In
the second race Bacon was able to pass Wappucar while the latter was
held back by slower cars. WappuCar spent so many laps behind two
slow cars that he couldn't catch up to Bacon, even with his substantial
solo speed advantage.
For the most part the solo speed capabilities did not predict the final
outcome. (see solo speeds below)
It appears that for very long races on complex tracks like S1 and S2,
High speed is not the most important attribute. The ability to avoid
damage and to quickly pass slower cars are the most important. We
note that Marvin, the slowest of the expert drivers when alone on the
track, managed a third place overall among the ten experts. OscCar2,
the overall winner, was right in the middle in solo speed ability.
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Novice Races:
3 cars for 80 laps. The track was s1.trk. The drivers were:
Carski, MyHearse, and Menace.
The initial RVG seed was 47875.
1 Menace avg spd 67.93 80 laps 4641 damage 34 fuel 10 pts
2 Carski avg spd 67.24 80 laps 6262 damage 65 fuel 6 pts
3 MyHearse avg spd 58.75 19 laps 30497 damage 63 fuel 4 pts
3 cars for 80 laps. The track was s2.trk. The drivers were:
Carski, MyHearse, and Menace.
The initial RVG seed was 59940.
1 Menace avg spd 57.74 14 laps 8611 damage 94 fuel 10 pts
2 Carski avg spd 57.33 3 laps 30297 damage 136 fuel 6 pts
3 MyHearse avg spd 48.69 1 laps 30266 damage 142 fuel 4 pts
Expert Races:
10 cars for 80 laps. The track was s1.trk. The drivers were:
Indretti, Rusty, Bacon, Marvin, JXBot3, Ramdu, OscCar2, Burns,
Sarah, and WappuCar.
The initial RVG seed was 10603.
starting positions: JXBot3, Burns, WappuCar, Rusty, Indretti, Marvin,
OscCar2, Ramdu, Bacon, and Sarah.
1 OscCar2 avg spd 68.83 82 laps 23067 damage 44 fuel 10 pts
2 Indretti avg spd 66.93 80 laps 24176 damage 63 fuel 6 pts
3 Marvin avg spd 66.87 79 laps 28018 damage 79 fuel 4 pts
4 Burns avg spd 71.51 47 laps 30121 damage 3 fuel 3 pts
5 WappuCar avg spd 70.98 35 laps 30170 damage 44 fuel 2 pts
6 Rusty avg spd 69.14 32 laps 30044 damage 68 fuel 1 pts
7 JXBot3 avg spd 72.9 22 laps 30090 damage 81 fuel 0 pts
8 Sarah avg spd 68.73 16 laps 30432 damage 85 fuel 0 pts
9 Bacon avg spd 69.59 3 laps 30327 damage 139 fuel 0 pts
10 Ramdu avg spd 67.35 1 laps 30052 damage 143 fuel 0 pts
10 cars for 80 laps. The track was s2.trk. The drivers were:
Indretti, Rusty, Bacon, Marvin, JXBot3, Ramdu, OscCar2, Burns,
Sarah, and WappuCar.
The initial RVG seed was 62962.
starting positions: Ramdu, Marvin, Indretti, Burns, Bacon,
JXBot3, OscCar2, WappuCar, Sarah, and Rusty.
1 Bacon avg spd 64.31 83 laps 29354 damage 11 fuel 10 pts
2 OscCar2 avg spd 61.7 80 laps 23201 damage 12 fuel 6 pts
3 WappuCar avg spd 61.62 49 laps 30273 damage 126 fuel 4 pts
4 Marvin avg spd 59.09 48 laps 30399 damage 0 fuel 3 pts
5 Rusty avg spd 59.04 37 laps 30091 damage 33 fuel 2 pts
6 Ramdu avg spd 67.07 24 laps 30121 damage 61 fuel 1 pts
7 Burns avg spd 65.17 21 laps 30128 damage 79 fuel 0 pts
8 Sarah avg spd 61.38 14 laps 30316 damage 94 fuel 0 pts
9 JXBot3 avg spd 64.76 11 laps 32150 damage 113 fuel 0 pts
10 Indretti avg spd 59.53 5 laps 30096 damage 128 fuel 0 pts
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Novice Points:
today season pts
1 Menace 20 pts 10
2 Carski 12 pts 6
3 MyHearse 8 pts 4
Expert Points:
1 OscCar2 16 pts 10
2 Bacon 10 pts 6
3 Marvin 7 pts 4
4&5 WappuCar 6 pts 2.5
4&5 Indretti 6 pts 2.5
6 Burns 3 pts 1
7 Rusty 3 pts 0
8 Ramdu 1 pts 0
9 Sarah 0 pts 0
10 JXBot3 0 pts 0
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solo speeds on S1.TRK:
Ramdu avg spd 77.08 7 laps 1474 damage 128 fuel
WappuCar avg spd 76.14 7 laps 0 damage 131 fuel
Bacon avg spd 75 7 laps 0 damage 129 fuel
JXBot3 avg spd 73.28 7 laps 0 damage 128 fuel
Burns avg spd 71.55 7 laps 0 damage 127 fuel
Rusty avg spd 69.81 7 laps 0 damage 132 fuel
OscCar2 avg spd 69.07 7 laps 0 damage 127 fuel
Sarah avg spd 68.91 7 laps 0 damage 123 fuel
Menace avg spd 68.04 7 laps 0 damage 126 fuel
Carski avg spd 67.39 7 laps 0 damage 129 fuel
Marvin avg spd 67.1 7 laps 0 damage 130 fuel
Indretti avg spd 67.02 7 laps 0 damage 128 fuel
MyHearse avg spd 58.76 7 laps 0 damage 118 fuel
solo speeds on S2.TRK:
WappuCar avg spd 71.86 7 laps 0 damage 128 fuel
Ramdu avg spd 67.37 7 laps 0 damage 124 fuel
Burns avg spd 65.62 7 laps 0 damage 126 fuel
JXBot3 avg spd 65.24 7 laps 5460 damage 127 fuel
Bacon avg spd 64.61 7 laps 0 damage 125 fuel
OscCar2 avg spd 61.7 7 laps 0 damage 124 fuel
Sarah avg spd 61.65 7 laps 0 damage 122 fuel
Rusty avg spd 60.62 7 laps 0 damage 127 fuel
Indretti avg spd 59.64 7 laps 28033 damage 124 fuel
Marvin avg spd 59.03 7 laps 0 damage 127 fuel
Menace avg spd 57.9 7 laps 0 damage 122 fuel
Carski avg spd 57.81 4 laps 30360 damage 132 fuel
MyHearse avg spd 50.13 1 laps 30338 damage 141 fuel
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