hello_drone.py

from AirSimClient import *

# connect to the AirSim simulator 
client = MultirotorClient()
client.confirmConnection()
client.enableApiControl(True)
client.armDisarm(True)

AirSimClientBase.wait_key('Press any key to takeoff')
client.takeoff()

AirSimClientBase.wait_key('Press any key to move vehicle to (-10, 10, -10) at 5 m/s')
client.moveToPosition(-10, 10, -10, 5)

AirSimClientBase.wait_key('Press any key to take images')
# get camera images from the car
responses = client.simGetImages([
    ImageRequest(0, AirSimImageType.DepthVis),  #depth visualiztion image
    ImageRequest(1, AirSimImageType.DepthPerspective, True), #depth in perspective projection
    ImageRequest(1, AirSimImageType.Scene), #scene vision image in png format
    ImageRequest(1, AirSimImageType.Scene, False, False)])  #scene vision image in uncompressed RGBA array
print('Retrieved images: %d', len(responses))

for idx, response in enumerate(responses):
    filename = 'c:/temp/py_drone_' + str(idx)

    if response.pixels_as_float:
        print("Type %d, size %d" % (response.image_type, len(response.image_data_float)))
        AirSimClientBase.write_pfm(os.path.normpath(filename + '.pfm'), AirSimClientBase.getPfmArray(response))
    elif response.compress: #png format
        print("Type %d, size %d" % (response.image_type, len(response.image_data_uint8)))
        AirSimClientBase.write_file(os.path.normpath(filename + '.png'), response.image_data_uint8)
    else: #uncompressed array
        print("Type %d, size %d" % (response.image_type, len(response.image_data_uint8)))
        img1d = np.fromstring(response.image_data_uint8, dtype=np.uint8) #get numpy array
        img_rgba = img1d.reshape(response.height, response.width, 4) #reshape array to 4 channel image array H X W X 4
        img_rgba = np.flipud(img_rgba) #original image is fliped vertically
        img_rgba[:,:,1:2] = 100 #just for fun add little bit of green in all pixels
        AirSimClientBase.write_png(os.path.normpath(filename + '.greener.png'), img_rgba) #write to png 

AirSimClientBase.wait_key('Press any key to reset to original state')
client.reset()

# that's enough fun for now. let's quite cleanly
client.enableApiControl(False)