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{{Short description|Open source 3D racing simulator}}{{about||the gene|RARS (gene)|the syndrome|Refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts}}File:Rars races in Hockenheim - Cars overtaking.jpg|thumb|AI drivers trying to overtake on a curve. Overtaking was one of the most challenging parts of RARS competition, as touching another car usually caused an accident.]]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.Evolved to Win by Moshe Sipper, {{ISBN|978-1-4709-7283-7}} (2011) It was used as an example in the book Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining by Mieczysław Kłopotek.Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining by Mieczysław Kłopotek, page 342It was a monthly on-going challenge for practitioners of Artificial Intelligence and real-time adaptive optimal control.weblink on sourceforge.net 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.stats on sourceforge.net

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External links

• Official Webpage
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