AirControl is an Open Source, Modular, Cross-Platform, and Extensible Flight Simulator For Deep Learning Research. Airsim offers a realistic simulation experience with a variety of airplanes. The Airsim is built on Unity Game engine. Following are the salient features of the Aircontrol:
Built with C#, it has Python API to control it from your favorite Deep learning Framework.
Complete source code is open on Github.
Aircontrol takes full advantage of object-oriented programming. Developed fully modular from day one. You can easily introduce new features such as vertical takeoff. you can bring your own alien plane to AirCotrol.
AirControl is truly cross-platform, can be compiled on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Binary will be released for all the platforms.
The AirControl uses Nvidia Physx for the best possible Newtonian physics simulation.
Aircontrol allows users to take advantage of aerodynamics effects such as Ground effect.
All the control surfaces (Throttle, Rudder, Ailerons, and Flaps) accepts normalized input between -1 and 1. This makes Aircontrol even more friendly with AI.
System Requirement¶
It depends on how big your Unity Environment is. The environmant which comes with the Aircontrol is basic tested with following config:
Operating system : Ubuntu, Windows, Mac
CPU: Intel Core i7
GPU: Nvidia 1070 or Higher
RAM: 16 GB
Flight Controller: xbox [WIP]
Aircontrol may work with lower than the specified requirements, but its not tested.
You can run Aircontrol in server client mode in 2 different machines or both in the single machine.
Demo¶
Current release version v0.0.3 is a pre-release to test the air stability and controls. Python integration is still in development.
Getting started¶
Windows - Not Tested
Download Binaries - https://github.com/snlpatel001213/AirControl/releases
Build it
Linux - Tested
Download Binaries - https://github.com/snlpatel001213/AirControl/releases
Build it
macOS - Not Tested
Download Binaries - https://github.com/snlpatel001213/AirControl/releases
Build it