v0.14.0

Features

Ray Tracing

• Scene 

  • Loading of geometries and EM-properties
  • Support to load scenes from external tools
  • Built-in scenes
  • Differentiable computation of propagation paths
  • Differentiable computation of coverage maps
  • 3D interactive viewer in notebooks
  • Ray tracing-based rendering of scenes

• Radio Materials

  • Customization with frequency-dependent properties
  • Integrated ITU radio materials

• Radio Devices

  • Support for arbitrary positions and orientations
  • Support for arbitrary antenna arrays and patterns

• Layer to compute channel impulse responses from propagation paths

• Cameras for visualization of scenes from arbitrary viewpoints

• Utility functions for 3D geometry

Tutorials

• Sionna Ray Tracing Tutorial notebook
• “Primer on Electromagnetics” explaining the theory behind ray tracing
• Video showing how import real-world environments in Sionna RT using Blender and OpenStreetMap

Fixes

• Fixes issue (#103)
• Fixes broken links in 5G NR PUSCH tutorial
• Updated DOCKERFILE (TF 2.11 as default)
• Updated file headers

Other

• Updated “Made with Sionna” section
• Updated installation guide
• New requirements: Mitsuba, pythreejs, ipywidgets