RARS Bi-weekly Race Report
& News About Upcoming Races
April 13, 1997
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]. Or visit the Rars website at
http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm
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.
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Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races:
April 13th, (Unlimited Division Races)
No. of races 2
Tracks: Castle Combe, Brands Hatch (alternate Buenos)
Laps: not less than 100/200 miles
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
driv0413.zip after the 4-27 session. These will only be expert drivers
updated this session Lisa12, and Jas.
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Preliminary lap times
Castle Combe (CstlComb.trk)
Car Laps Avg MPH Damage Notes
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Exp Lisa12 96.33 Updated
Exp Ralph2 87.79
Nov Jas 85.96 Updated
Nov Magic 85.46
Nov RW 82.65
Nov Apex 82.29
Nov Jammer 77.82
Nov Lilbamb 77.53
Buenos Aries (Buenos.trk)
Car Laps Avg MPH Damage Notes
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Exp Lisa12 77.34 Updated
Exp Ralph2 72.37
Nov Jas 71.81 Updated
Nov Apex 70.23 New
Nov Magic 69.77 New
Nov RW 67.27 30000+
Nov Lilbamb 66.31
Nov Jammer 63.58
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Race Reports
With only one competing expert, I only ran the novices with the experts
as traffic.
Combined Race 1: mv0413c1.zip
8 cars for 37 laps. The track was buenos.trk. The drivers were:
Ralph2, Lisa, LilBam, Jas, Jammer, RW, Magic, and Apex6.
The initial RVG seed was 38669.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Apex6, Ralph2, Jammer, LilBam, Lisa, Magic, RW, and Jas.
1 Jas avg spd 71.88 37 laps 21614 damage 0 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Magic avg spd 69.62 36 laps 26796 damage 9 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Ralph2 avg spd 67.51 35 laps 20425 damage 6 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Jammer avg spd 63.64 33 laps 10160 damage 41 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Lisa avg spd 52.88 28 laps 27412 damage 4 fuel 2 pts accum
6 Apex6 avg spd 63.61 23 laps 30219 damage 42 fuel 1 pts accum
7 LilBam avg spd 62.62 5 laps 30189 damage 125 fuel 0 pts accum
8 RW avg spd 66.98 2 laps 30339 damage 137 fuel 0 pts accum
Combined Race 2: mv0413c2.zip
8 cars for 55 laps. The track was cstlcomb.trk. The drivers were:
Ralph2, Lisa, LilBam, Jas, Jammer, RW, Magic, and Apex6.
The initial RVG seed was 41888.
results of race 1:
starting positions:
Lisa, Magic, Ralph2, Apex6, RW, Jammer, LilBam, and Jas.
1 Jas avg spd 85.72 55 laps 20136 damage 5 fuel 10 pts accum
2 Apex6 avg spd 79.46 52 laps 19929 damage 11 fuel 6 pts accum
3 Ralph2 avg spd 79.48 52 laps 22678 damage 9 fuel 4 pts accum
4 Jammer avg spd 78.02 51 laps 10259 damage 29 fuel 3 pts accum
5 Magic avg spd 85.7 33 laps 30027 damage 60 fuel 2 pts accum
6 RW avg spd 82.47 17 laps 30057 damage 99 fuel 1 pts accum
7 LilBam avg spd 73.14 8 laps 30293 damage 126 fuel 0 pts accum
8 Lisa avg spd 61.38 4 laps 31552 damage 134 fuel 0 pts accum
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Points for Day - Unlimited Division
Driver Race 1 Race 2 Total Finish Seasons Seasons Total
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Expert
Lisa 10 10 20 1 10 10 10 nr nr 30
Novice
Jas 10 10 20 1 10 5 8 nr nr 23
Lilbamb 2 2 4 5 1.5 3 8 nr nr 12.5
RW 1 3 4 5 1.5 10 nr nr nr 11.5
Jammer 4 4 8 3 4 5 nr nr nr 9
Magic 6 1 7 4 3 nr nr nr nr 3
Apex 3 6 9 2 6 nr nr nr nr 6
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Expert Division History - Unlimited Division
Finishes
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6
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Lisa 20 3 0 0 0 0 0
Novice Division History - Unlimited Division
Finishes
Car Total 1 2 3 4 5 6
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Jas 13 2 1 0 0 0 0
Lilbamb 11 1 0 1 0 1 0
RW 10 1 0 0 0 1 0
Jammer 5 0 1 1 0 0 0
Magic 3 0 0 0 1 0 0
Apex 6 0 1 0 0 0 0
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This is the point standings for the Unlimited Division.
Expert Division
Henning Klaskala 30.0 pts (Germany) Lisa
Novice Division
Jurgen Sang 23.0 pts (Germany) Jas
Al Davis 12.5 pts (US) LilBambi
Robert Wilderspin 11.5 pts (Britain) RW
Kim Laurio 9.0 pts (Sweden) Jammer
Sebastien Tixier 3.0 pts (France) Magic
Maido Remm 6.0 pts (Estonia) Apex
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This is the RARS address book.
Juergen Sang [email hidden]
Henning Klaskala [email hidden]
Al Davis [email hidden]
Kim Laurio [email hidden]
Robert Wilderspin [email hidden]
Sebastien Tixier [email hidden]
Maido Remm [email hidden]
Upcoming RARS Race Meets
RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1)
Apr 27th, Castle Combe and Brands Hatch, Unlimited 100/200 Miles
Alternate: Imola (Imola.trk)
May 11th, Castle Combe and Brands Hatch, Unlimited 100/200 Miles
Alternate: Monaco (Monaco.trk)
TENTATIVE RACING SCHEDULE (all races track surface 1, v.64)
Tentative Alternates:
May 25 Spain Barcelona Catalunya
Jun 15 Canada Montreal
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Comments from Ralph
So we have a new and promising Magic and Apex. Jas is up to his old
tricks. Jammer and Lisa trying to figure out who can be the slowest.
I'm thinking I should combine the divisions. Only one expert? Come on!
Good luck and see you in two weeks.
