Robot Auto Racing Simulation (RARS) Mailing List Digest 19951008
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Contents
Someone else want to run races?
Yesterday's races
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From: "Mitchell E. Timin" <[email hidden]>
Subject: Someone else want to run races?
To: [email hidden] (Rars- List)
Date sent: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:30:34 -0400 (EDT)
Hello Rartians,
Is there anyone who would like to run races for a while? I would like
to take a break from that activity.
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From: "Mitchell E. Timin" <[email hidden]>
Subject: Yesterday's races
To: [email hidden] (Rars- List)
Date sent: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 12:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
RARS Bi-weekly Race Report
& News About Upcoming Races
October 1, 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
Today's Races
Authors Point Standings
Upcoming Races
October 1 Competitors
October 1 Race Report
solo speeds
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Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races:
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.
The winners were:
Expert Class: (9 cars racing for four races of 25 laps on two tracks)
1st place - Randy Saint
2nd Rob Creager, 3rd Mike Carty, 4th Nicole Greiber
Novice Class: (6 cars racing for four races of 25 laps on two tracks)
1st place - Henning Klaskala
2nd Mike Carty, 3rd Ferd Trauttmansdorff
New files on the ftp site:
exe101.zip - a DOS executable with today's robots
(unzip it, then type "RARS -h")
bots101.zip - source code for most of them, .obj's for the rest
races10.1 - This file that you are now reading
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Expert Class Point standings
Randy Saint 69 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
Nicole Greiber 21 pts (Germany) Marvin & Sticky
Oscar Gustafsson 20 pts (Sweden) OscCar2
Jeremy Weatherford 17 pts (U.S.A.) JXBot
Tony Cabe 11 pts (U.S.A.) Bacon & Irvin
Bill Benedict 10 pts (U.S.A.) Rusty
Tim Battersby 10 pts (Canada) Emily
Rob Creager 10 pts (U.S.A.) Stalker
Kim Laurio 8 pts (Sweden) Yaburu
Muir Lee Harding 6 pts (U.S.A.) racer_X
Mike Carty 4 pts (U.S.A.) Phred
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:
Robert Skupinski 15 pts (U.S.A.) Carski
Dennis Lew 14 pts (Canada) Menace
Tristrom Cooke 13 pt (Australia) Bingo1
Larry Ludwick 12.5 (U.S.A.) MyHearse
Grant Reeve 11 pts (New Zealand) Piranha
Carl Burke 8 pts (U.S.A.) Blender2
Ferd Trauttmansdorff 5.5 pts (Canada) StuckCar
Patrick Tierney 5 pts (Canada) Heath2
Henning Klaskala 4 (Germany) Shocker
Thomas Rooney 2 pts (U.S.A.) goCART
Lawrence Lee 1 pt (Canada) Canada
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The Next RARS Race Meet
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, October 1, Novice Class:
Lawrence Lee Canada Canada
Larry Ludwick U.S.A. MyHearse
Robert Skupinski U.S.A. Carski
Henning Klaskala Germany Shocker
F. Trauttmansdorff Canada StuckCar
Mike Carty U.S.A. Phred
Competitors, October 1, Expert Class:
Tony Cabe U.S.A. Irvin
Nicole Greiber Germany Sticky
Randy Saint U.S.A. Ramdu
Jeremy Weatherford U.S.A. JXBot3
Rob Creager U.S.A. Stalker
Kim Laurio Sweden Yaburu
Muir Lee Harding U.S.A. Racer_Y
Henning Klaskala Germany Shocker (made expert today)
Mike Carty U.S.A. Phred (made expert today)
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6 cars for 25 laps. The track was v03.trk. The drivers were:
Canada, MyHearse, Carski, Shocker, StuckCar, and Phred.
The initial RVG seed was 54141.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Shocker, Carski, StuckCar, Canada, Phred, and MyHearse.
1 Shocker avg spd 63.14 25 laps 370 damage 103 fuel 10 pts accum
2 StuckCar avg spd 62.67 25 laps 466 damage 103 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Phred avg spd 61.72 24 laps 3413 damage 102 fuel 4 pts accum
4 MyHearse avg spd 60.94 24 laps 986 damage 111 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Carski avg spd 60.41 24 laps 2103 damage 111 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Canada avg spd 58.93 23 laps 1874 damage 112 fuel 1 pts accum
results of race 2:
starting positions:
MyHearse, Phred, Canada, StuckCar, Carski, and Shocker.
1 Shocker avg spd 63.17 25 laps 685 damage 103 fuel 20 pts accum
2 StuckCar avg spd 62.63 25 laps 775 damage 103 fuel 12 pts accum
3 Phred avg spd 61.96 24 laps 1023 damage 102 fuel 8 pts accum
4 MyHearse avg spd 60.93 24 laps 1115 damage 111 fuel 6 pts accum
5 Carski avg spd 59.96 23 laps 7488 damage 110 fuel 4 pts accum
6 Canada avg spd 58.92 23 laps 2006 damage 111 fuel 2 pts accum
6 cars for 25 laps. The track was timin.trk. The drivers were:
Canada, MyHearse, Carski, Shocker, StuckCar, and Phred.
The initial RVG seed was 67400.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Shocker, MyHearse, StuckCar, Carski, Phred, and Canada.
1 Shocker avg spd 77.43 25 laps 549 damage 32 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Phred avg spd 76.08 25 laps 1107 damage 32 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Carski avg spd 75.62 24 laps 942 damage 51 fuel 4 pts accum
4 MyHearse avg spd 75.38 24 laps 1065 damage 48 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Canada avg spd 74.01 24 laps 714 damage 58 fuel 2 pts accum
6 StuckCar avg spd 75.36 1 laps 30258 damage 143 fuel 1 pts accum
results of race 2:
starting positions:
Canada, Phred, Carski, StuckCar, MyHearse, and Shocker.
1 Shocker avg spd 77.35 25 laps 354 damage 31 fuel 20 pts accum
2 Phred avg spd 76.1 25 laps 310 damage 32 fuel 12 pts accum
3 StuckCar avg spd 75.83 24 laps 8365 damage 32 fuel 5 pts accum
4 Carski avg spd 75.58 24 laps 352 damage 51 fuel 7 pts accum
5 MyHearse avg spd 75.28 24 laps 28772 damage 48 fuel 5 pts accum
6 Canada avg spd 73.92 24 laps 2135 damage 58 fuel 3 pts accum
8 cars for 25 laps. The track was v03.trk. The drivers were:
Shocker, Phred, Irvin, Sticky, Ramdu, JXBot3, Stalker, and Racer_Y.
The initial RVG seed was 23402.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Ramdu, Stalker, Irvin, Sticky, Racer_Y, Phred, Shocker, and JXBot3.
1 Ramdu avg spd 64.3 25 laps 4439 damage 105 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Sticky avg spd 63.44 25 laps 12600 damage 103 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Shocker avg spd 63.12 24 laps 1844 damage 103 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Stalker avg spd 61.97 24 laps 13113 damage 108 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Phred avg spd 61.98 24 laps 13392 damage 105 fuel 2 pts accum
6 JXBot3 avg spd 61.38 24 laps 2746 damage 105 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Irvin avg spd 60.41 23 laps 10524 damage 112 fuel 0 pts accum
8 Racer_Y avg spd 59.72 1 laps 30340 damage 147 fuel 0 pts accum
results of race 2:
starting positions:
JXBot3, Shocker, Phred, Racer_Y, Sticky, Irvin, Stalker, and Ramdu.
1 Phred avg spd 62.09 25 laps 367 damage 101 fuel 12 pts accum
2 Stalker avg spd 61.94 25 laps 7306 damage 107 fuel 9 pts accum
3 JXBot3 avg spd 61.37 24 laps 4608 damage 104 fuel 5 pts accum
4 Irvin avg spd 60.8 24 laps 5068 damage 110 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Ramdu avg spd 63.39 24 laps 31503 damage 106 fuel 12 pts accum
6 Shocker avg spd 62.06 22 laps 30138 damage 108 fuel 5 pts accum
7 Racer_Y avg spd 64.95 21 laps 30386 damage 109 fuel 0 pts accum
8 Sticky avg spd 61.27 2 laps 30111 damage 145 fuel 6 pts accum
9 cars for 25 laps. The track was timin.trk. The drivers were:
Shocker, Phred, Irvin, Sticky, Ramdu, JXBot3, Stalker, Racer_Y,
and Yaburu.
The initial RVG seed was 34703.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Phred, Racer_Y, Sticky, Shocker, Yaburu, JXBot3, Stalker, Irvin,
and Ramdu.
1 Yaburu avg spd 79.86 25 laps 3393 damage 49 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Ramdu avg spd 78.16 25 laps 16416 damage 45 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Sticky avg spd 77.42 24 laps 2657 damage 40 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Stalker avg spd 76.29 24 laps 1801 damage 43 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Phred avg spd 76.09 24 laps 497 damage 35 fuel 2 pts accum
6 JXBot3 avg spd 76.09 24 laps 1264 damage 43 fuel 1 pts accum
7 Irvin avg spd 75.89 24 laps 4222 damage 53 fuel 0 pts accum
8 Racer_Y avg spd 0 0 laps 30005 damage 144 fuel 0 pts accum
9 Shocker avg spd 0 0 laps 30032 damage 147 fuel 0 pts accum
results of race 2:
starting positions:
Ramdu, Irvin, Stalker, JXBot3, Yaburu, Shocker, Sticky, Racer_Y,
and Phred.
1 Ramdu avg spd 78.49 25 laps 5362 damage 44 fuel 16 pts accum
2 Sticky avg spd 77.36 25 laps 21703 damage 39 fuel 10 pts accum
3 Stalker avg spd 76.23 24 laps 5634 damage 42 fuel 7 pts accum
4 Phred avg spd 76.03 24 laps 4831 damage 34 fuel 5 pts accum
5 Irvin avg spd 75.93 24 laps 2936 damage 52 fuel 2 pts accum
6 JXBot3 avg spd 75.92 24 laps 3407 damage 42 fuel 2 pts accum
7 Yaburu avg spd 79.76 20 laps 30323 damage 67 fuel 10 pts accum
8 Shocker avg spd 75.98 5 laps 30363 damage 126 fuel 0 pts accum
9 Racer_Y avg spd 70.41 1 laps 30273 damage 142 fuel 0 pts accum
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Novice Points:
today season pts
Shocker 40 pts 10
Phred 20 6
StuckCar 17 pts 4
MyHearse 11 pts 2.5
Carski 11 pts 2.5
Canada 5 1
Expert Points:
Ramdu 28 pts 10
Stalker 18 pts 6
Phred 17 4
Sticky 16 pts 3
Yaburu 10 pts 2
JXBot3 7 pts 1
Irvin 5 pts 0
Shocker 5 0
Racer_Y 0 0
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solo speeds on V03.TRK:
Racer_Y avg spd 65.61 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
Ramdu avg spd 64.47 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
Sticky avg spd 63.9 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
Shocker avg spd 63.12 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
StuckCar avg spd 62.76 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
Phred avg spd 62.02 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
Stalker avg spd 61.96 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
JXBot3 avg spd 61.38 6 laps 0 damage 138 fuel
MyHearse avg spd 60.98 6 laps 0 damage 140 fuel
Irvin avg spd 60.85 6 laps 0 damage 140 fuel
Stocker avg spd 60.53 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
Carski avg spd 60.45 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
Canada avg spd 58.95 6 laps 0 damage 139 fuel
solo speeds on TIMIN.TRK:
Yaburu avg spd 79.95 6 laps 0 damage 125 fuel
Ramdu avg spd 78.38 6 laps 0 damage 124 fuel
Sticky avg spd 77.35 6 laps 0 damage 122 fuel
Shocker avg spd 77.3 6 laps 0 damage 121 fuel
Stalker avg spd 76.32 6 laps 0 damage 123 fuel
JXBot3 avg spd 76.21 6 laps 0 damage 122 fuel
Phred avg spd 76.07 6 laps 0 damage 121 fuel
Irvin avg spd 75.94 6 laps 0 damage 125 fuel
StuckCar avg spd 75.88 6 laps 0 damage 121 fuel
Stocker avg spd 75.62 6 laps 0 damage 125 fuel
Carski avg spd 75.56 6 laps 0 damage 125 fuel
MyHearse avg spd 75.41 6 laps 0 damage 124 fuel
Canada avg spd 74.02 6 laps 0 damage 126 fuel
Racer_Y avg spd 0 0 laps 30335 damage 145 fuel
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