The 2009 Simulated Car Racing Championship

Author

Loiacono, Daniele ; Lanzi, Pier Luca ; Togelius, Julian ; Onieva, Enrique ; Pelta, David A. ; Butz, Martin V. ; Lönneker, Thies D. ; Cardamone, Luigi ; Perez, Diego ; Sáez, Yago ; Preuss, Mike ; Quadflieg, Jan

Author_Institution

Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy

Volume

2

Issue

2

fYear

2010

fDate

6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

147

Abstract

In this paper, we overview the 2009 Simulated Car Racing Championship-an event comprising three competitions held in association with the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), the 2009 ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), and the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG). First, we describe the competition regulations and the software framework. Then, the five best teams describe the methods of computational intelligence they used to develop their drivers and the lessons they learned from the participation in the championship. The organizers provide short summaries of the other competitors. Finally, we summarize the championship results, followed by a discussion about what the organizers learned about 1) the development of high-performing car racing controllers and 2) the organization of scientific competitions.

Keywords

evolutionary computation; learning (artificial intelligence); sport; 2009 ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference; 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation; 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games; 2009 Simulated Car Racing Championship; competition regulations; high-performing car racing controllers; scientific competitions; Car racing; competitions;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-068X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCIAIG.2010.2050590

Filename

5466096