Welcome to AirSim¶

AirSim is a simulator for drones, cars and more, built on Unreal Engine. It is open-source, cross platform and supports hardware-in-loop with popular flight controllers such as PX4 for physically and visually realistic simulations. It is developed as an Unreal plugin that can simply be dropped into any Unreal environment you want.

Our goal is to develop AirSim as a platform for AI research to experiment with deep learning, computer vision and reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. For this purpose, AirSim also exposes APIs to retrieve data and control vehicles in a platform independent way.

AirSim Drone Demo Video

AirSim Car Demo Video

Installing¶

Windows¶

Linux¶

Build from source

Getting started¶

Choosing the Mode: Car, Multirotor or ComputerVision¶

By default AirSim will prompt you to choose Car or Multirotor mode. You can use SimMode setting to specify the default vehicle or the new ComputerVision mode.

Manual drive¶

If you have remote control (RC) as shown below, you can manually control the drone in the simulator. For cars, you can use arrow keys to drive manually.

More details

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Programmatic control¶

AirSim exposes APIs so you can interact with the vehicle in the simulation programmatically. You can use these APIs to retrieve images, get state, control the

Reference

API

Settings

FAQ