RARS

We see AI drivers, robots, trying to overtake. Overtaking was one of the most challenging part of the competition. Touching another car meant, in most cases, a car accident and going off the road.

RARS is an acronym for Robot Auto Racing Simulator. It is an open source 3D racing simulator. RARS is designed to enabled pre-programmed AI drivers to race against one another. RARS was used as the base for TORCS.[1] It was used as an example in the book Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining by Mieczysław Kłopotek.[2]

It was a monthly on-going challenge for practitioners of Artificial Intelligence and real-time adaptive optimal control [3]. 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.

Each participant could submit a robot (a file written in C++) which controlled the car and competed to win the race.

  • The input was the road and cars in front of it.
  • The output was the driver wheel and driver accelerator position.

RARS was downloaded from its main repository on Sourceforge.net between 2000 and May 2017 almost 100,000 times.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Evolved to Win by Moshe Sipper, ISBN 978-1-4709-7283-7 (2011)
  2. ↑ Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining by Mieczysław Kłopotek, page 342
  3. ↑ on sourceforge.net
  4. ↑ stats on sourceforge.net


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