The 2007 IEEE CEC simulated car racing competition

Abstract

his paper describes the simulated car racing competition that was arranged as part of the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Both the game that was used as the domain for the competition, the controllers submitted as entries to the competition and its results are presented. With this paper, we hope to provide some insight into the efficacy of various computational intelligence methods on a well-defined game task, as well as an example of one way of running a competition. In the process, we provide a set of reference results for those who wish to use the simplerace game to benchmark their own algorithms. The paper is co-authored by the organizers and participants of the competition

A fuzzy approach for the 2007 CIG simulated car racing competition

“…Despite their counter-intuitive driving styles, these controllers are among the best controllers in the competition. The interested readers is particularly referred to [14] for a comprehensive comparison of all the controllers in this competition.…”

“…More details about the competitions can be gathered and its complete source code downloaded from the organiser's website at http://julian.togelius.com/cig2007competition and Interested readers could refer to the paper of Togelius and others [14] for more in-depth details of the rules and the physical model used in this game.…”

The Mario AI Benchmark and Competitions

“…Some of these competitions are based on arcade-style games such as Ms. Pac-Man [7], Cellz [8], X-pilot [9] and a simple 2D racing game [10]. But there are also competitions based on the firstperson shooter Unreal Tournament [11], [12], the modern racing game TORCS [13] and the real-time strategy game StarCraft [14].…”

The WCCI 2008 simulated car racing competition

“…A reviewer of the paper summarizing the previous car racing competitions [1] pointed out that in its current form, the competition is not only about learning algorithms. It is certainly possible to hand-code a non-learning controller that outperforms the best CI-based controllers.…”

“…Partly because of the simplicity of the software, these competitions enjoyed a good degree of participation. The organization, submitted entries and results of these competitions were recently published in [1].…”