Welcome to VISTA’s documentation!¶

VISTA is a data-driven simulation engine for autonomous driving perception and control. The VISTA API provides an interface for transforming real-world datasets into virtual environments with dynamic agents, sensor suites, and task objectives.

All code is available on our github repository.

Installation¶

VISTA can be installed into your Python 3 environment using the PyPi package interface.

>> pip install vista

Please also ensure that you have all required dependencies to successfully run VISTA. Details on dependencies are outlined in Installation.

Citing VISTA¶

% VISTA 1.0: Sim-to-real RL
@article{amini2020learning,
   title={Learning Robust Control Policies for End-to-End Autonomous Driving from Data-Driven Simulation},
   author={Amini, Alexander and Gilitschenski, Igor and Phillips, Jacob and Moseyko, Julia and Banerjee, Rohan and Karaman, Sertac and Rus, Daniela},
   journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
   year={2020},
   publisher={IEEE}
}

% VISTA 2.0: Multi-sensor simulation
@inproceedings{amini2022vista,
 title={VISTA 2.0: An Open, Data-driven Simulator for Multimodal Sensing and Policy Learning for Autonomous Vehicles},
 author={Amini, Alexander and Wang, Tsun-Hsuan and Gilitschenski, Igor and Schwarting, Wilko and Liu, Zhijian and Han, Song and Karaman, Sertac and Rus, Daniela},
 booktitle={2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
 year={2022},
 organization={IEEE}
}

% VISTA 2.0: Multi-agent simulation
@inproceedings{wang2022learning,
 title={Learning Interactive Driving Policies via Data-driven Simulation},
 author={Wang, Tsun-Hsuan and Amini, Alexander and Schwarting, Wilko and Gilitschenski, Igor and Karaman, Sertac and Rus, Daniela},
 booktitle={2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
 year={2022},
 organization={IEEE}
}

Contribution Guidelines¶

VISTA is constantly being advanced and has been built with research, extensibility, and community development as a priority. We actively encourage contributions to the VISTA repository and codebase, including issues, enhancements, and pull requests.