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2012 SIMULATED CAR RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
to be held as part of the
2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
July 7-11, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012
Submission Deadline for GECCO's Leg: June 25th, 2012
Webpage: http://games.ws.dei.polimi.it/competitions/scr/
We are pleased to announce the 2012 Simulated Car Racing
Championship, an event joining three simulated car
racing competitions held at:
* EVO*-2012, Malaga (Spain)
* ACM GECCO-2012, Philadelphia (US)
* IEEE CIG-2012, Granada (Spain)
** GOAL **
The goal of the championship is to design 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 (clutch, changing gear, accelerate,
break, steering the wheel, etc.)
** BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY **
The 2012 Championship will not introduce any major change with
respect to the previous edition. In particular, we will not
introduce any change to the APIs, such that it will be possible
to build a controller based on the entries of the past year.
** RULES AND REGULATIONS **
The championship consists of nine races on nine different tracks
divided into three legs, one for each conference, involving three
Grand Prix competitions each. Teams will be allowed to submit a
different driver to each leg.
Each Grand Prix consists of three stages:
* the warm-up
* the qualifying
* the race
During warm-up, each driver races alone for 100000 game ticks
(approximately 30 minutes of actual game time) on each track.
Drivers can collect useful information about the tracks and can
tune their behaviors for the next stages. Accordingly, the
performance of drivers in this stage is not taken into account
for their scores.
During the qualifying stage, as in the previous edition, each driver
races alone for 10000 game ticks on each of three three tracks of
the leg (approximately 3 minutes and 20 seconds of actual game time
per track). The eight controllers that bridge the longest distances
qualify for the actual Grand Prix races.
During the final races, these best eight drivers race together. The
races consist of eight times three lap races on each of the three
tracks. At the end of each race, the drivers are scored using the
F1 system: 10 points to the first controller that completes the race,
8 points to the second one, 6 to the third one, 5 to the fourth, 4 to
the fifth one, 3 to the sixth, 2 to the seventh, and 1 to the eighth.
The driver performing the fastest lap in the race will get two
additional points. The driver completing the race with the smallest
amount of damage will also get two extra points. The starting grid
of the first race will be based on the performance obtained in the
qualifying stage. Each subsequent race, the starting grid will be
shifted by one so that each driver starts from every position of the
starting grid exactly once.
As in the previous edition, the tracks used in each leg are unknown
to the competitors.
** IMPORTANT DATES **
EVO* Leg: COMPLETED
GECCO Leg
- Submission deadline: June 25, 2012
- Conference: July 7-11, 2012
CIG Leg
- Submission deadline: August 31, 2012
- Conference: September 12-15, 2012
** COMPETITION SOFTWARE **
The competition software, including servers for Linux & Windows,
and C++ and Java clients, can be downloaded from the competition
webpage:
http://games.ws.dei.polimi.it/competitions/scr/
For inquiries send an email to [email protected] or visit
the Car Racing Google Group at
http://groups.google.com/group/racingcompetition
Please notice that you are *not* required to either attend or
register to the conferences in order to enter the competition.
** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **
Daniele Loiacono (Politecnico di Milano)
Luigi Cardamone (Politecnico di Milano)
Pier Luca Lanzi (Politecnico di Milano)
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GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG
Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,
1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global).
