FlightForge connector

This repository contains the API connector for FlightForge, it allows to interact with the FlightForge binary or your own custom build of FlightForge.

Building the connector

To build the C++ connector you can use the provided build.sh script. The script will create a build directory, run CMake to configure the project, and then build the connector using make. An example usage of the API is provided in the example/cli directory. To spawn the UAV in the simulator you can run the

./debug_game_mode.sh
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This will spawn the UAV in the simulator and you can use the ./debug_cli.sh script to control the UAV.

Citing this work

If you use this simulator in your research, please cite the following paper:

  title   = {FlightForge: Advancing UAV Research with Procedural Generation of High-Fidelity Simulation and Integrated Autonomy},
  author  = {David Čapek and Jan Hrnčíř and Tomáš Báča and Jakub Jirkal and Vojtěch Vonásek and Robert Pěnička and Martin Saska},
  year    = {2025},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv: 2502.05038},
  url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05038v1},
  pdf     = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05038.pdf}
}