# louiszengCN/CarlaAir

CarlaAir: Fly Drones Inside a CARLA World!! A Unified Infrastructure for Air-Ground Embodied Intelligence

Repository: https://github.com/louiszengCN/CarlaAir
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/carlaair
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: airsim, autonomous-driving, carla, drone, python, robotics, ros2, simulation, uav, unreal-engine
Last push: 2026-08-14T06:28:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 80, longevity 11
- inputs: {"age_days": 167, "days_push": 19, "days_rel": 139, "gap_med": 13.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: young, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1076, forks 92 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:29.396793+00:00)

## What it is
CarlaAir is an open-source simulation infrastructure that combines CARLA's high-fidelity urban driving environments with physics-accurate multirotor drone flight inside a single Unreal Engine process. It provides a unified foundation for air-ground embodied intelligence research, with pre-built executables for Ubuntu and Windows.

## Use cases
- simulate drones flying in a CARLA urban environment
- research air-ground embodied intelligence
- train UAV navigation policies in simulation
- combine autonomous driving and drone flight in one simulator
- run drone physics simulation with Unreal Engine visuals
- test multirotor control algorithms in city scenes

## When to choose
- you need both driving and drone simulation in a single Unreal Engine process
- you want pre-built CARLA+AirSim binaries without compiling from source
- you research embodied AI spanning air and ground vehicles
- you already use CARLA 0.9.16 or AirSim and need multirotor support

## When to avoid
- you need a permissively licensed simulator for commercial use (license is custom non-commercial)
- you only need ground-vehicle driving simulation without drones
- you require platforms other than Ubuntu 20.04/22.04 or Windows 11
- you need a lightweight simulator without GPU/Unreal Engine dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: simulation, robotics, machine-learning, computer-vision, developer-tools
- domain: robotics, simulation, autonomous-vehicles, artificial-intelligence, reinforcement-learning
- platform: windows, python, cpp
- tags: carla, drone, uav, airsim, unreal-engine, ros2, embodied-ai, multirotor, air-ground-simulation, non-commercial-license, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- louiszengCN/CarlaAir (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.396793+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:53:22.862685+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/louiszengCN/CarlaAir (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.396793+00:00, sha f88e36f222ca)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.