LogInPowered by Microsoft Azure, AirSim can simulate AI models that can run through millions of flights in seconds.
During the Farnborough International Airshow, Microsoft launched AirSim, a powerful new platform running on Microsoft Azure to safely build, train, and test autonomous aircraft through high-fidelity simulation. Effectively, AirSim works as a flight simulator for drones, allowing drone producers to train their machines to work in risky and dangerous places.
With AirSim, AI models can run through millions of flights in seconds, learning how to react to countless variables such as rain, snow, wind, and temperature and training to avoid man-made objects located in the air, such as power lines, wind turbines, and such.
As said before, project AirSim utilizes the power of Azure to generate massive amounts of data for training AI models on exactly which actions to take at each phase of flight, from takeoff to cruising to landing. It will also offer libraries of simulated 3D environments representing diverse urban and rural landscapes.
"Autonomous systems will transform many industries and enable many aerial scenarios, from the last-mile delivery of goods in congested cities to the inspection of downed power lines from 1,000 miles away," comments Gurdeep Pall, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Business Incubations in Technology & Research. "But first we must safely train these systems in a realistic, virtualized world. Project AirSim is a critical tool that lets us bridge the world of bits and the world of atoms, and it shows the power of the industrial metaverse – the virtual worlds where businesses will build, test, and hone solutions and then bring them into the real world."
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