RARS Bi-weekly Race Report
& News About Upcoming Races
August 11, 1996
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] or
[email hidden].
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 (unless in
the unlikely event you use Borland C++ for OS/2).
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Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races:
Aug 11th, S2 and Stef2 Midget Division Races, 30 laps
Alternate: Hungary
One of the top two races will be 'rained out' and will be
replaced by Hungary (which is being run that day). I will
flip a coin that day to figure out which race is to be
'rained out'.
No. of races Depends on number drivers (minimum 6)
2 preliminary (half lap count)
2 novice(bottom half of preliminarys)
2 expert(top half of preliminarys)
Laps: 30 each race(15 for preliminary)
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
driv0811.zip in 1-3 days. All drivers will be there.
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Preliminary lap times
Hungary
Car Laps Avg MPH Damage Fuel Notes
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RS 70.41
HK 69.91 updated
OG 68.59 new
Stef2
Car Laps Avg MPH Damage Fuel Notes
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HK 53.48 new
RS 7 51.23
OG 48.41 updated
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Race Reports
Because of the small field size, I ran them all together for the
preliminaries.
mv0811r1.zip
3 cars for 30 laps. The track was hungary.trk. The drivers were:
OG, RS, and HK.
The initial RVG seed was 18753.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
RS, HK, and OG.
1 HK avg spd 69.48 30 laps 21690 damage 28 fuel 10 pts accum
2 OG avg spd 68.27 30 laps 11787 damage 17 fuel 6 pts accum
3 RS avg spd 66 4 laps 30042 damage 128 fuel 4 pts accum
mv0811r2.zip
3 cars for 30 laps. The track was stef2.trk. The drivers were:
OG, RS, and HK.
The initial RVG seed was 28493.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
HK, OG, and RS.
1 OG avg spd 48.43 30 laps 2482 damage 110 fuel 10 pts accum
2 HK avg spd 51.03 16 laps 30265 damage 126 fuel 6 pts accum
3 RS avg spd 51.02 16 laps 30032 damage 127 fuel 4 pts accum
I broke up the expert/novice races based on point totals.
mv0811r3.zip (Expert)
2 cars for 30 laps. The track was stef2.trk. The drivers were:
OG, and HK.
The initial RVG seed was 51732.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
HK, and OG.
1 HK avg spd 53.34 30 laps 6677 damage 110 fuel 10 pts accum
2 OG avg spd 48.41 28 laps 4349 damage 112 fuel 6 pts accum
mv0811r4.zip (Expert)
2 cars for 30 laps. The track was hungary.trk. The drivers were:
OG, and HK.
The initial RVG seed was 53918.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
OG, and HK.
1 OG avg spd 68.71 30 laps 16969 damage 19 fuel 10 pts accum
2 HK avg spd 68.47 5 laps 30032 damage 126 fuel 6 pts accum
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Points for Day
Pr eli mi na ry Todays 5 Outing
Driver Race 1, 2 Total Novice Expert Total Total(Nov, Exp)
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OG 6,10 16 na na 6 10 8E 10, 8
RS 4, 4 8 na na 10N 10,10
HK 10, 6 16 na na 10 6 8E 0, 8
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This is the point standings for the Midget Division. (last 5 outings)
Randy Saint 10, 0 0,10 0, 0 0, 0 0, 0 (U.S.A)
Oscar Gustafsson 0, 8 10, 0 0, 0 0, 0 0, 0 (U.S.A)
Henning Klaskala 0, 8 0, 0 0, 0 0, 0 0, 0 (Germany)
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This is the RARS address book.
Randy & Marianne Saint <[email hidden]>
Oscar Gustafsson <[email hidden]>
Henning Klaskala <[email hidden]>
Upcoming RARS Race Meets
RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1)
Aug 25th, R.A. and Adelaid2 Unlimited Division Races, 80 laps
Alternate: Spa-Frachochamps
Sep 8th, S2 and Stef2 Midget Division Races, 30 laps
Alternate: Monza-76
TENTATIVE RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1)
Aug 25th, R.A. and Adelaid2 Unlimited Division Races, not less than 200 miles
Alternate: Estoril
Alternates:
Oct 13 Suzuka
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Comments from Ralph
Another small turnout. I will continue with this division for
at least a little more or until I can come up with another idea.
In two weeks we start the expert division again. No one (other than
Marc Guerny) has either notified me or submitted a driver. I
have decided to take up Torbens idea of only running the races 200
miles as opposed to 80 laps. This has been changed on the upcoming
meets schedule. This should make it easier for cars to survive
the race. Not much, but just a little.
Good luck and see you in two weeks.
