Hi,
This is another remainder for people who would like to compete in
programming drivers Artificial Intelligence.
This week a new series of RARS, dedicated to absolute beginners will
start. RARS is a programming contest where everyone can participate - no
previous education in programming or physics is required. Just read our
tutorials and start the race! Briefly, your task is to make a C++
program that gets data about its situation every 1/20 seconds and in
response tells the main program your desired values of steering wheel
angle and speed. You can also ask for pit_stop and adjust the
fuel_amount and the amount of repair that is done on your car while
pitting.
We have plenty of tutorial robots, so you do not have to start from
scratch. Rather correct model of real physics is used to move your
robot-car around the track. Up to 24 robots will compete in one race.
You can make your own teams - unlimited number of entries per person!
The new series -BORS- (for Beginners Oval Racing Series) is about to
start and 8 races will be run (2 each week, starting from 14th of May).
This series runs on the following tracks:
Michigan, Indy, Mlwaukee, Phoenix, Nazareth, Loudon, Pocono.
You can join it any time. Designing of robot for the oval tracks is
easy. All turns are left turns and you don't have to think about
chicanes. Even more - the program code of robots is open e.g. you can
get ideas from your competitors code to get the pace quicker.
For more information read
http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~maido/rars/rars.htm or
another RARS
racing series currently run by Ralph Scott (see
[link lost in import: /~maido/rars/races.htm] The latter series
uses F1 and other non-oval racing tracks.
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Maido Remm
