RARS Bi-weekly Race Report
& News About Upcoming Races
November 12, 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
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Contents
Todays Races
Preliminary lap times
November 12 Race Report
Authors Point Standings
Upcoming Races
Comments from Ralph
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Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races:
November 12: (Stocker Division Races)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert
Tracks: SUZUKA.TRK and MOSPORT.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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Preliminary lap times
MOSPORT
Car Laps Avg MPG Damage Fuel
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Nov Lisa 7 87.31 125
Nov StukCar2 7 86.54 125
Exp Sticky 7 85.43 124
Nov Stalker 7 85.25 123
Nov Tokkie 7 84.85 123
Nov Phred 7 82.45 119
SUZUKA
Car Laps Avg MPG Damage Fuel
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Nov Lisa 7 86.01 114
Nov StukCar2 7 83.49 114
Exp Sticky 7 83.29 112
Nov Stalker 7 83.22 110
Nov Tokkie 7 82.22 111
Nov Phred 7 81.45 107
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Race Report
Seeing as we only had 5 novices and one expert, I decided again to not
run an expert race, but instead to run the novice race with the one
expert racer as company. The races finished as might be expected when
looking at the solo lap times. The surprise happening here is that
Lisa, while having the fastest time all around crashed in both races.
Both times while passing on the inside during a curve. Tough luck! We
also had one competitor whos car only just made it to me before the
deadline. (Stalker)
Combined Races:
6 cars for 40 laps. The track was mosport.trk. The drivers were:
StukCar2, Tokkie, Phred, Lisa, Sticky, and Stalker.
The initial RVG seed was 26583.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Stalker, Sticky, Lisa, StukCar2, Tokkie, and Phred.
1 StukCar2 avg spd 86.58 40 laps 4109 damage 12 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Stalker avg spd 85.5 40 laps 2349 damage 2 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Sticky avg spd 85.47 39 laps 342 damage 8 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Tokkie avg spd 84.89 39 laps 2837 damage 4 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Phred avg spd 82.15 38 laps 1365 damage 137 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Lisa avg spd 84.08 1 laps 30284 damage 143 fuel 1 pts accum
6 cars for 40 laps. The track was suzuka.trk. The drivers were:
StukCar2, Tokkie, Phred, Lisa, Sticky, and Stalker.
The initial RVG seed was 10953.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
StukCar2, Sticky, Stalker, Tokkie, Lisa, and Phred.
1 StukCar2 avg spd 83.29 40 laps 1460 damage 102 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Sticky avg spd 83.04 40 laps 15233 damage 89 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Stalker avg spd 82.99 39 laps 14892 damage 79 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Tokkie avg spd 81.79 39 laps 2435 damage 85 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Phred avg spd 81.07 39 laps 2135 damage 64 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Lisa avg spd 85.71 34 laps 30118 damage 127 fuel 1 pts accum
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Points for Day - Stocker Division
Driver Race 1 Race 2 Total Seasons Seasons Total
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Expert
Marvin 10 10 20 10 10
Novice
StukCar2 10 10 20 10 10
Stalker 6 6 12 8 8
Tokkie 4 4 8 4 4
Phred 3 3 6 3 3
Lisa 2 2 4 2 2
(Apparently, the longer the name, the better the results! - RS)
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Expert Division History - Stocker Division
Finishes
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 11/12 Driver Country
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Sticky 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 Nicole Greiber Germany
Novice Division History - Stocker Division
Finishes
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 11/12 Driver Country
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StukCar2 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff
Canada
Stalker 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 6 Patrick Tierney Canada
Tokkie 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 Hannes Nell S. Africa
Phred 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 Mike Carty USA
Lisa 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 Henning Lkaskala Germany
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This is the initial point standings for the Stocker Division.
Expert Class Point standings
Expert Division
Nicole Greiber 10 pts (Germany) Sticky
Novice Division
Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff*
10 pts (Canada) StukCar2
Patrick Tierney* 6 pts (Canada) Stalker
Hannes Nell 4 pts (S. Africa) Tokkie
Mike Carty 3 pts (U.S.A.) Phred
Henning Klaskala 2 pts (Germany) Lisa
(* means has 1 win towards advancement to expert)
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Upcoming RARS Race Meets
November 26: (Unlimited Division Races)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert each division
Tracks: Chosen at random/unknown
Laps: 80 each race
Software version: 0.64 (or latest variant of 0.63)
Surface Type: 1
practice as requested, random starting order.
Hint:
I suggest all contestants for this race get all the tracks from the
ftp site and try out their cars on them. If they can run on all of
them, then you are doing good. I would especially test the cars
on Fiorano, because at least one of the surprise tracks has a tricky
segment much like Fiorano's. Another tricky track is fourmile. The
last left-right-left segment is begging for optimization.
December 10th, (Unlimited Division Races)
No. of races 2 novice and 2 expert each division
Tracks: Mosport and Suzuka
Laps: 80 each race
Software version: 0.64 (or latest variant of 0.63)
Surface Type: 1
practice as requested, random starting order.
TENTATIVE RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1)
December 24th, Fiorano and Adelaide Stocker Division Races, 40 laps
January 7th, Fiorano and Adelaide Unlimited Division Races, 80 laps
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Comments from Ralph
Another poor turn out. I was disappointed. But I still intend to run
the races as long as people submit cars. I may start running both races
together like I did today. If either race has less than 8 competitors I
will start mixing them together. Its the passing and interreacting with
other cars that makes Rars racing more than just an optimization
problem, IMHO. I'd still like to hear comments from those people that
didn't submit cars. Did your dog eat your code? Did you have engine
trouble? Do I have B.O.? :-) Also, I intend to be on irc (channel rars)
at 4:00 pm EST for all future races.
