RARS explained

RARS is an acronym for Robot Auto Racing Simulator. It is an open source 3D racing simulator. RARS is designed to enable 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]

External links

• Official Webpage

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=29N9AwAAQBAJ&dq=rars+torcs&pg=PA99 Evolved to Win
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=1E7UlCr6p5gC&dq=%22Robot+Auto+Racing+Simulator%22&pg=PA342 Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining
3. https://rars.sourceforge.net/
4. https://sourceforge.net/projects/rars/files/stats/timeline?dates=2000-01-10+to+2017-05-25 stats