{"id":550065,"date":"2018-11-14T05:58:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T13:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?p=550065"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T16:14:44","slug":"microsoft-airsim-now-available-on-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/microsoft-airsim-now-available-on-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AirSim now available on Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-550194 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/AirSim_CarEditor-1024x517.png\" alt=\"AirSim in editor\" width=\"1024\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/AirSim_CarEditor-1024x517.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/AirSim_CarEditor-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/AirSim_CarEditor-768x388.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/AirSim_CarEditor.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At Microsoft, we have a vision and passion to bring artificial intelligence solutions to real-world systems using the power of simulation. We continually strive to accelerate AI advances with the use of realistic simulators, tools, and environments.<\/p>\n<p>Today we are excited to announce AirSim availability on <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/unity3d.com\/\">Unity<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0AirSim developers will be able to leverage the Unity platform and ecosystem when building, training and evaluating autonomous systems in a simulated environment designed for AI.<\/p>\n<h3>What is AirSim?<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/airsim\">AirSim\u00a0<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>is an open-sourced system designed to train autonomous systems. AirSim provides realistic environments, vehicle dynamics, and multi-modal sensing for researchers building autonomous vehicles that use AI to enhance their safe operation in the open world.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers building autonomous systems can create accurate, detailed models of both systems and environments, making them intelligent using methods such as deep learning, imitation learning and reinforcement learning. Tools such as <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/bons.ai\/\">Bonsai<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> can be used to train the models across a variety of environmental conditions and vehicle scenarios in the cloud on Microsoft Azure \u2013 much faster and safer than is feasible in the real world. After training is complete, designers can deploy these trained models onto actual hardware.<\/p>\n<h3>Availability<\/h3>\n<p>An experimental version of AirSim on Unity is available now on <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/AirSim\">GitHub<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> and you can learn more by visiting the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.unity3d.com\/2018\/11\/14\/airsim-on-unity-experiment-with-autonomous-vehicle-simulation\">Unity blog<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. Learn more about AirSim <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/ai\/microsoft-shares-open-source-system-training-drones-gadgets-move-safely\/\">here<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that Unity on AirSim represents an important step toward building real world AI solutions using the power, flexibility, and scale of simulators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Microsoft, we have a vision and passion to bring artificial intelligence solutions to real-world systems using the power of simulation. We continually strive to accelerate AI advances with the use of realistic simulators, tools, and environments. Today we are excited to announce AirSim availability on Unity. \u00a0AirSim developers will be able to leverage the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37074,"featured_media":550197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[241770],"tags":[],"research-area":[13556],"msr-region":[],"msr-event-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"msr-promo-type":[],"msr-podcast-series":[],"class_list":["post-550065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_event_details":{"start":"","end":"","location":""},"podcast_url":"","podcast_episode":"","msr_research_lab":[],"msr_impact_theme":[],"related-publications":[],"related-downloads":[],"related-videos":[],"related-academic-programs":[],"related-groups":[867219,237595],"related-projects":[607743,359810],"related-events":[],"related-researchers":[{"type":"user_nicename","value":"Shital Shah","user_id":35435,"display_name":"Shital Shah","author_link":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shitals\/\" aria-label=\"Visit the profile page for Shital Shah\">Shital Shah<\/a>","is_active":false,"last_first":"Shah, Shital","people_section":0,"alias":"shitals"}],"msr_type":"Post","featured_image_thumbnail":"<img width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/airsim_blog_1400x788.jpg\" class=\"img-object-cover\" alt=\"Airsim\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/airsim_blog_1400x788.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/airsim_blog_1400x788-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/airsim_blog_1400x788-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/airsim_blog_1400x788-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/airsim_blog_1400x788-1066x600.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/airsim_blog_1400x788-655x368.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/uploads\/prod\/2018\/11\/airsim_blog_1400x788-343x193.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>","byline":"Ashish Kapoor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shitals\/\" title=\"Go to researcher profile for Shital Shah\" aria-label=\"Go to researcher profile for Shital Shah\" data-bi-type=\"byline author\" data-bi-cN=\"Shital Shah\">Shital Shah<\/a>","formattedDate":"November 14, 2018","formattedExcerpt":"At Microsoft, we have a vision and passion to bring artificial intelligence solutions to real-world systems using the power of simulation. 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