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Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research
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Adding Warthog simulation feature to AirSim #4309

Open akhil22 opened 2 years ago

akhil22 commented 2 years ago

What feature are you suggesting?

Overview:

I would like to add a Warthog Simulation feature to AirSim . It is an excellent platform to test off-road autonomy algorithms. The focus of my research is to come up with RL based Controllers for different off-road vehicles and Unreal Engine with AirSim is the perfect choice for simulation platform.

Smaller Details:

I have already created the warthog Pawn in Unreal with a simple PID controller and now I would like to add this to AirSim. After looking at the source code I have created a simple hierarchical diagram which captures the basic dependency(represented by black arrows), inheritance structure(Represented by thick red arrows) and the code that needs to be written (light blue oval nodes) AirSim

Nature of Request:

Why would this feature be useful?

There has been a lot of interest in off-road autonomy for ground vehicles recently and this feature can provide a good simulation platform for training RL based autonomy algorithms.

Gastastrophe commented 2 years ago

My lab would also be interested in this. There aren't a lot of platforms that support ground and air vehicles. It seems like a lot of work, but certainly not a bad idea

akhil22 commented 2 years ago

My lab would also be interested in this. There aren't a lot of platforms that support ground and air vehicles. It seems like a lot of work, but certainly not a bad idea

Yes its a lot of work but I think its a useful feature. Do you have any specific ground platform that you want to simulate ?

jonyMarino commented 2 years ago

Maybe this work made with an AirSim fork can help

akhil22 commented 2 years ago

My lab would also be interested in this. There aren't a lot of platforms that support ground and air vehicles. It seems like a lot of work, but certainly not a bad idea

Hi Gastastrophe, I have added warthog simulation to AirSim please checkout this repo if you want to use it for your work and let me know if you face any issues.