Which sim prefix functions are OK to use in which tiers? about airsim-neurips2019-drone-racing

[ironclownfish]

It's possible we will allow simListSceneObjects() and simGetObjectPose() for the planning tier. As you found in that link to #14 there, that allows you to make a getGatePoses() function pretty easily. (I see your point, that those weren't listed in #19)

There's also a chance we will just supply a getGatePoses() function directly, and block off simListSceneObjects() and simGetObjectPose(). Either way, we expect people to follow the method shown in #14 for now.

[yannbouteiller]

By the way, I think it is by far best for tier 3 to give access to Front and Back camera, as it was initially said.

The reason for having access to Back camera is obviously to be able to block/kill the lagging drone, which is what makes the competition adversarial and not just a "simple" path-planning task with a randomly moving obstacle.

[ugurkanates]

So we are not able to get information like angular velocity,acceleration or linear velocity,acc even for our drone right ?

baseline_racer.airsim_client.simGetGroundTruthKinematics() - this is not allowed

Correct me if i'm wrong.

baseline_racer.airsim_client.simGetVehiclePose() - just this allowed for both drones

[madratman]

See list for qualification binaries in the readme : https://github.com/microsoft/AirSim-NeurIPS2019-Drone-Racing#downloading

as @ironclownfish mentioned, simListScneObjects is still working.
simGetObjectPose() returns a noisy output if racer tier is passed as 2 or 3 in simStartRace