Systems and methods for simulating aircraft systems
Systems and methods for simulating aircraft systems are provided. A system includes simulation entity agents defined to represent the behavior of multi-modal ride-sharing agents (e.g., aerial vehicle, ground vehicle, air traffic controllers, etc.) and world data representing a world environment within which the simulation entity agents may operate. The system obtains agent data indicative of a simulation aerial vehicle and world data indicative of a particular simulated world environment. The system determines scenario data including a scenario definition defining a simulation scenario and generates a simulation instance based on the scenario data. The simulation instance includes the simulation aerial vehicle within the simulated world environment. The simulation aerial vehicle can have access, within the simulation, to one or more backend services of a transportation services system configured to facilitate an aerial transportation service. The system can initiate the simulation instance and obtain data while the simulation is running.
1. A computer-implemented method for simulating aircraft systems, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, agent data indicative of a simulated aircraft;
obtaining, by the computing system, world data indicative of a simulated world environment;
determining, by the computing system, scenario data indicative of a simulation scenario based, at least in part, on the agent data and the world data;
initializing, by the computing system, a simulation instance for the simulation scenario based, at least in part, on the scenario data,
wherein the simulation instance comprises the simulated aircraft within the simulated world environment, and
wherein the simulated aircraft has access to one or more backend services of a transportation services system configured to facilitate an aerial transportation service; and
simulating, based, at least in part, on the simulation instance, a performance of the simulated aircraft within the simulated world environment, wherein simulating the performance of the simulated aircraft comprises simulating one or more functional API calls for the simulated aircraft to the one or more backend services.
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining, by the computing system, integration data indicative of the one or more backend services of the transportation services system; and
determining, by the computing system, an access permission for the simulated aircraft based, at least in part, on the integration data, wherein the simulated aircraft has access to the one or more backend services based, at least in part, on the access permission.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the one or more backend services comprise one or more permitted services of the transportation services system as indicated by the access permission.
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the simulated aircraft is configured to access the one or more backend services of the transportation services system during the simulation instance via an application programming interface platform.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
obtaining, by the computing system, at least one timing parameter indicative of a simulation frequency for the simulation scenario, wherein the simulated world environment and the transportation services system are configured to iterate through one or more time steps defined by the simulation frequency.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the simulation frequency is indicative of real time, and wherein the one or more time steps comprise a time step for each second of real time.
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the simulation frequency is indicative of an accelerated time, and wherein the one or more time steps comprise at least two time steps for each second of real time.
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , further comprising:
obtaining, by the computing system, at least one evaluation parameter indicative of one or more testing metrics;
determining, by the computing system, evaluation data associated with the simulation instance for at least one of the one or more time steps based, at least in part, on the one or more testing metrics; and
storing, by the computing system, the evaluation data.
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the world data comprises a plurality of environment variables for each time step of the one or more time steps.
10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the agent data comprises an agent definition for the simulated aircraft, wherein the agent definition comprises:
a sensor interface configured to determine one or more measured values based, at least in part, on at least one of the plurality of environment variables;
a communications interface configured to communicate data within the simulated world environment; and
a behavioral engine that defines one or more dynamic behaviors of the simulated aircraft.
11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein the one or more dynamic behaviors of the simulated aircraft are defined based, at least in part, on a predicted behavior for an aircraft corresponding to the simulated aircraft.
12. A computing system comprising:
an agent database comprising agent data indicative of a plurality of simulation agents;
a world database comprising world data indicative of a plurality of simulated world environments;
one or more processors; and
one or more memory resources storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to:
obtain, via the agent database, agent data indicative of a simulated aircraft, wherein the simulated aircraft is one of the plurality of simulation agents;
obtain, via the world database, world data indicative of a simulated world environment of the plurality of simulated world environments;
determine scenario data indicative of a simulation scenario based, at least in part, on the agent data and the world data; and
initializing a simulation instance for the simulation scenario based, at least in part, on the scenario data,
wherein the simulation instance comprises the simulated aircraft within the simulated world environment, and
wherein the simulated aircraft has access to one or more backend services of a transportation services system configured to facilitate an aerial transportation service; and
simulating, based on the simulation instance, a performance of the simulated aircraft within the simulated world environment, wherein simulating the performance of the simulated aircraft comprises simulating one or more functional API calls for the simulated aircraft to the one or more backend services.
13. The computing system of claim 12 , wherein the plurality of simulation agents comprise a plurality of aircraft agents and a plurality of world agents, wherein the simulated aircraft comprises one of the plurality of aircraft agents.
14. The computing system of claim 13 , wherein each of the plurality of simulation agents are predetermined based on real world data.
15. The computing system of claim 13 , wherein the agent data is indicative of one or more secondary aircraft agents and one or more of the plurality of world agents; and
wherein the simulation instance comprises the one or more secondary aircraft agents and the one or more world agents within the simulated world environment, and
wherein the one or more secondary aircraft agents have access to the one or more backend services of the transportation services system.
16. The computing system of claim 12 , further comprising:
a user interface configured to interact with one or more users of the computing system, wherein the computing system is further configured to:
obtain, via the user interface, input data comprising one or more scenario parameters, the one or more scenario parameters comprising one or more simulation agent parameters and one or more testing environment parameters;
obtain, via the agent database, the agent data based, at least in part, on the one or more simulation agent parameters, wherein each of the one or more simulation agent parameters identify at least one simulation agent of the plurality of simulation agents; and
obtain, via the world database, the world data based, at least in part, on the one or more testing environment parameters, wherein each of the one or more testing environment parameters identify at least one simulated world environment of the plurality of simulated world environments.
17. The computing system of claim 16 , wherein each of the plurality of simulation agents and the plurality of simulated world environments comprise a corresponding unique identifier, wherein the one or more simulation agent parameters comprise a respective unique identifier for the at least one simulation agent, and wherein the one or more testing environment parameters comprise another respective unique identifier for the at least one simulated world environment.
18. The computing system of claim 16 , further configured to:
simulate, based on the simulation instance, the performance of the simulated aircraft within the simulated world environment by running the simulation instance over one or more time steps;
determine evaluation data for at least one of the one or more time steps based, at least in part, on the simulation instance; and
output, via the user interface, the evaluation data to the one or more users of the computing system.
19. A computing system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memory resources storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to:
obtain agent data indicative of a simulated aircraft;
obtain world data indicative of a simulated world environment;
determine scenario data indicative of a simulation scenario based, at least in part, on the agent data and the world data;
initialize a first simulation instance for the simulation scenario based, at least in part, on the scenario data and a first start time,
wherein the first simulation instance comprises the simulated aircraft within the simulated world environment, and
wherein the simulated aircraft has access to one or more backend services of a transportation services system configured to facilitate an aerial transportation service; and
simulate, based on the first simulation instance, a performance of the simulated aircraft within the simulated world environment by running the first simulation instance over one or more time steps beginning at the first start time, wherein simulating the performance of the simulated aircraft comprises simulating one or more functional API calls for the simulated aircraft to the one or more backend services.
20. The computing system of claim 19 , wherein the computing system is further configured to:
generate a second simulation instance for the simulation scenario based, at least in part, on the scenario data and a second start time; and
simulate, based on the second simulation instance, the performance of the simulated aircraft within the simulated world environment by running the second simulation instance over one or more time steps beginning at the second start time.