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GECCO-2009 – Results of the Second Leg of th...

The second leg of the 2009 Simulated Car Racing Championship just ended. We received around ten submissions. Five new submissions plus the submissions from CEC-2009. Three participants of the CEC-2009 simulated car racing competition updated their drivers.

The three tracks used for the GECCO-2009 leg are: Dirt3, E-road and Alpine.

The results of the first qualifying stage are summarized in the following table:

COBOSTAR is still the fastest controller around but Onieva and Pelta are getting closer and closer. MrRacer was unfortunately disqualified since the controller crashed in one of the tracks. At the end of the first stage eight controllers have been selected (the ones showed in green in the table) and three were eliminated (the red ones in the table above).

In the second stage, for each track, we run eight races with different starting grids and scored the controllers based on their arrival position.

The results are summarized in the following table:

Onieva and Pelta performed really well and actually won this leg of the championship. Congratulations! Their new controller performed really much better than the previous one.

This results reopens the championship since the championship scoreboard has the two teams separated by just few points as shown in this table:

Please, remind that the controller by Luigi, the champion of the CIG2008 competition, appears in the scoreboard but it cannot be awarded with any prize since it belongs to one of the organizing institutions).

I wish to thank all the participants. The next leg will be held during CIG-2009 in Milan and it will be held live so that people will be able to watch an actual race while it is happening.

More news will be posted later.

SIGEVOlution Volume 3, Issue 3, Out Now!...

The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from:
http://www.sigevolution.org

The issue features:

  • An Interview with John H. Holland with an introduction by Lashon Booker
  • It’s Not Junk! by Clare Bates Congdon, H. Rex Gaskins, Gerardo M. Nava & Carolyn Mattingly
  • car racing @ CIG-2008
  • GECCO-2009 competitions
  • new issues of journals
  • calls & calendar
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Design, Progettazione e Sviluppo di Videogiochi in Italia: l’esperienza di Milestone.

CEC-2009 – Simulated Car Racing Competition...

We are pleased to announce the official start of the CEC-2009 Simulated Car Racing Competition with the publication of the competition rules and the availability of the competition software.

Leaflet: http://tinyurl.com/scrcec2009

The competition goal is the design of a controller for a racing car that will compete on a set of unknown tracks first alone (against the clock) and then against other drivers. The controllers perceive the racing environment through a number of sensors that describe the relevant features of the car surroundings (e.g., the track limits, the position of near-by obstacles), of the car state (the fuel level, the engine RPMs, the current gear, etc.), and the current game state (lap time, number of lap, etc.). The controller can perform the typical driving actions (changing gear, accelerate, break, steering the wheel, etc.)

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: May 8th 2009
  • Conference: May 18th-21st 2009

Competition Software

The competition software, including the servers for Linux & Windows, the C++ and Java clients, can be downloaded from the competition webpage:

http://cig.dei.polimi.it/?page_id=80

For inquiries send an email to championship2009@ieee-cig.org or visit the Car Racing Google Group at

http://groups.google.com/group/racingcompetition

Organizers

  • Daniele Loiacono (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Julian Togelius (IDSIA)
  • Pier Luca Lanzi (Politecnico di Milano)