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<title>TORCS Robot Tutorial</title>
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<h1>TORCS Robot Tutorial</h1>
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<h2>Introduction</h2>
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<p>
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The goal of this tutorial is to motivate you to write your own TORCS robot and to guide you through
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the first steps. So what does the term "robot" here mean exactly? A robot is a program that drives
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a car (technically it's a function encapsulated into a shared object in Linux, into a DLL in Windows).
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It is executed from TORCS and gets as input information about the current status of its car and
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the situation on the track. Based on this it can compute how much it wants to steer, to brake or accelerate,
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which gear it needs and if it wants to pit. Your robot returns the data to TORCS and the next
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simulation step will be performed.<br/>
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For me it's great fun to develop my robot, because I can implement my ideas and check it in the
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simulation. I can just say, it didn't really often happen what I expected, because it is a more
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complex and interesting environment as it seems on the first glimpse. You don't have just to fight
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with the control of your car, you have also to avoid collisions, to overtake and to resolve other
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situations.<br/>
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So, if you like to watch races on TV here is something more exciting for you, you can let your
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driver enter the race and participate yourself. Take your chance and enter the race!
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<h2>Requirements</h2>
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You need to have TORCS installed exactly according to the
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<a href="javascript:changetwoframes('../install/navigation/navigation.html','navigation','../install/install.html','content')">installation</a>
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section (if you have not read the installation instructions, then do it before you start,
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even if TORCS runs perfectly). It helps if you already
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know a programming language and a bit about data structures like linked lists. You have to write
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your robot in C or C++, but that's easy if you already know another programming language, because you just
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need very easy stuff like basic data types, structures, pointers, arrays and functions. So if
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you are not familiar with C or C++, simply read further and look up a C or C++ tutorial on demand.
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You can find such tutorials on the internet, pick one that fits your needs.
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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There is a reference manual and much more on the official <a href="http://torcs.org" target="_parent">TORCS site</a>.
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Let us know about your robot and make it available, so that the world can enjoy your work. If you want
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discuss about TORCS, mail to the <a href="mailto:torcs-users@lists.sourceforge.net">torcs-users</a>
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mailing list.
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<h2>Robot Tutorial Download</h2>
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If you prefer to read the tutorial offline, then you can download it
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<a href="http://www.berniw.org/aboutme/publications/tutorial-0.tar.bz2">here</a>.
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