RARS: Game Guide, Developer and Facts
RARS: video game guide with key facts, developer and background.

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. It was used as an example in the book Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining by Mieczysław Kłopotek. It was a monthly on-going challenge for practitioners 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 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.
Quick facts about RARS
- Title: RARS
- Type: Video game
- Wikidata ID: Q7275813
Compiled from public Wikipedia and Wikidata data. Details can change over time.
Frequently asked questions
What is RARS?
RARS is an acronym for Robot Auto Racing Simulator.
What kind of video game is RARS?
RARS is an acronym for Robot Auto Racing Simulator.
Where can I learn more about RARS?
See the Wikipedia and Wikidata sources below.



