Full description of features provided by different account types
Account Types
- Basic
- Advanced
- Enterprise
Basic Account
The basic account is the default account type when signing up for the SWARM platform. With the basic account, general access to the SWARM platform is provided, along with the following specific tools to utilize for completing simulations of autonomous agents.
Features
- Access to submit up to 40 simulations per month, totalling 120 total mintues of simulation time.
- Access to the SWARM Firmware tools, which allows you to build a complete autonomous agent with varying capabilities.
- Ability to submit an algorithm to the leaderboard 3 times per month
- Ability to share a simulation on the Forum
- Utilization of a 16 CPU cloud instance (where the simulation is run)
- Simple analysis (trajectory) of flight data with logs
Access to the following environments:
- Mountain Environment (All Basic scenarios)
- City Environment (All Basic Scenarios
- Basic Blocks Environment (All Basic Scenarios)
Access to the following scenarios:
- Rendezvous (Gathering a swarm of agents)
- Formation Control (Fly a swarm of agents in a particular pattern)
- Simple Race (Fly through a complex environment, avoiding obstacles)
SWARM Firmware Features:
- Basic Obstacle Avoidance using the right hand rule and LiDAR [Add Link]
- Customizeable behavior module [Add Link]
- Customizeable Obstacle Avoidance module [Add Link]
- Basic Position-Derivative Controller with tuned weights
- Basic waypoint planner using straight lines and constant altitude
- Basic communication system that provides messages via MavLink emulated packets
Advanced Account ($12 Per Month)
The Advanced account provides all of the features of the Basic account, with a number of options available to enhance your autonomous agent development.
Features
- All features of the Basic account
- Access to up to 200 simulations for a total of 480 minutes of simulation time
- Unlimited submissions to each leaderboard for the each scenario
PLUS
- Access to a PX4-integrated flight control system
- Access to a ROS-based integration that provides a Mavproxy ROS node for control
- Advanced communication emulation of different communication environemnts
- Advanced data analysis, to include perceptual data
- Access to a 64 CPU Computer with multiple GPUs (limited simulation time, see details)
Access to the following environments:
- Mountain Environment (All Basic scenarios)
- City Environment (All Basic Scenarios
- Basic Blocks Environment (All Basic Scenarios)
- Hospital Environment (Building Mapping)
Access to the following scenarios:
- Rendezvous (Gathering a swarm of agents)
- Formation Control (Fly a swarm of agents in a particular pattern)
- Simple Race (Fly through a complex environment, avoiding obstacles)
- Complex Obstacle Course
- Environment mapping and sensing
- Single and Multi-Human tracking
- Search and Rescue
- Many more in the works!
SWARM Firmware Features:
- Advanced Obstacle Avoidance using SWARM developed algorithms
- Waypoint following behavior module [Add Link]
- Advanced Feedforward controller for smooth flight trajectories
- Advanced waypoint planner using cubic B-splines
- Inter-process linking and communication for high-performance systems
- Ability to access pre-trained object detection models and other Computer Vision algorithms
Future Updates
Through this subscription, you are funding our development of new and exciting features, to include:
- An implementation of the SWARM firmware for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs)
- Implementation of a fixed-wing aircraft
- Implementation of a scalable Physics implementation using Bullet
- New scenarios focusing on common perceptual and logic tasks
- Continusing Integration and Development through CI/CD Pipelines
- Access to Hardware In The Loop (HIL) support with NVIDIA Xavier NX computers
Advanced Account ($50 Per Month per user)
The Enterprise account provides all of the features of the Advanced account and represents the fullest set of features available on SWARM for commericial organizations and researchers who wish to utilize the full power of this platform
Features
- All features of the Advanced account
- Unlimited Simulation time
- Unlimited submissions to each leaderboard for the each scenario
PLUS
- Access to a PX4-integrated flight control system
- Access to a ROS-based integration that provides a Mavproxy ROS node for control
- Advanced communication emulation of different communication environemnts
- Advanced data analysis, to include perceptual data
- Access to a 64 CPU Computer with multiple GPUs (limited simulation time, see details)
Access to the following environments:
- Mountain Environment (All Basic scenarios)
- City Environment (All Basic Scenarios
- Basic Blocks Environment (All Basic Scenarios)
- Hospital Environment (Building Mapping)
Access to the following scenarios:
- Rendezvous (Gathering a swarm of agents)
- Formation Control (Fly a swarm of agents in a particular pattern)
- Simple Race (Fly through a complex environment, avoiding obstacles)
- Complex Obstacle Course
- Environment mapping and sensing
- Single and Multi-Human tracking
- Search and Rescue
- Many more in the works!
SWARM Firmware Features:
- Advanced Obstacle Avoidance using SWARM developed algorithms
- Waypoint following behavior module [Add Link]
- Advanced Feedforward controller for smooth flight trajectories
- Advanced waypoint planner using cubic B-splines
- Inter-process linking and communication for high-performance systems
- Ability to access pre-trained object detection models and other Computer Vision algorithms