Software:AirSim

AirSim

Original author(s)	Microsoft Research
Developer(s)	Microsoft and community
Initial release	February 16, 2017 (2017-02-16)
Stable release	1.8.1 / July 17, 2022 (2022-07-17)
Repository	github.com/microsoft/AirSim
Written in	C++
Operating system	Windows 10, macOS, Linux
Type	Flight simulator
License	MIT License
Website	microsoft.github.io/AirSim

AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source, cross platform simulator for drones, ground vehicles such as cars and various other objects, built on Epic Games’ proprietary Unreal Engine 4 as a platform for AI research. It is developed by Microsoft and can be used to experiment with deep learning, computer vision and reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. This allows testing of autonomous solutions without worrying about real-world damage.

AirSim provides some 12 kilometers of roads with 20 city blocks and APIs to retrieve data and control vehicles in a platform independent way. The APIs are accessible via a variety of programming languages, including C++, C#, Python and Java. AirSim supports hardware-in-the-loop with driving wheels and flight controllers such as PX4 for physically and visually realistic simulations. The platform also supports common robotic platforms, such as Robot Operating System (ROS). It is developed as an Unreal plug-in that can be dropped into any Unreal environment. An experimental release for a Unity plug-in is also available.

See also

• Vehicle simulation game
• Microsoft Flight Simulator

Further reading

• Shital Shah; Debadeepta Dey; Chris Lovett; Ashish Kapoor (2017-11-03). "AirSim: High-Fidelity Visual and Physical Simulation for Autonomous Vehicles". arXiv:1705.05065.

External links

• Aerial Informatics and Robotics Platform - Microsoft Research