Customize an AWS DeepRacer Student community race - AWS DeepRacer

Customize an AWS DeepRacer Student community race

To create a race that is tailored for your group, add customizations that increase or decrease a race's complexity and challenge.

To customize a student race

  1. Open the AWS DeepRacer console.

  2. Choose Community races.

  3. On the Community races page, choose the Leaderboard for the race you want to customize.

    The "Leaderboard" button is circled on an image of a Student Community Race card.

  4. On the Race details page, choose Edit race.

    Image showing the "Edit race" button circled on the Race details page.

  5. Expand Race customizations.

    Expand the "Race customizations" section by selecting an arrow.

  6. Optionally, write a description for your race that summarizes the goals and rules of the event for participants. The description will appear in your leaderboard details.

  7. For Ranking method for a classic race, choose between the Best lap time, where the winner is the racer who posts the fastest lap; average time, where, after multiple attempts within the time-frame of the event, the winner is the racer with the best average time; or Total time, where the winner is the racer with the fastest overall average.

  8. Choose a value for Minimum laps, which is the number of consecutive laps a racer must complete to qualify for submission of the result to the race's leaderboard. For a beginners' race, choose a smaller number. For advanced users, choose a larger number.

  9. For Off-track penalty, choose the number of seconds to add to a racer's time when their RL model drives off track.

  10. You have now completed all the customization options for your student community race. Choose Next to review the race details.

  11. On the Review race details page, review the race specifications. To make changes, choose Edit or Previous to return to the Race details page. When you're ready to get the invitation link, choose Submit.

  12. Choose Done. The Manage races page is displayed.

To learn how to use our email template to invite new racers, remove racers from your race, check on racers' model submission status and more, see Manage Community Races.