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Cartographer

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Cartographer is a system that provides real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in 2D and 3D across multiple platforms and sensor configurations.

Technical Overview

  • High level system overview of Cartographer
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Getting started

Cartographer is a standalone C++ library. To get started quickly, use our ROS integration.

Getting started with ROS

ROS integration is provided by the Cartographer ROS repository. You will find complete documentation for using Cartographer with ROS at the Cartographer ROS Read the Docs site.

Getting started without ROS

Please see our ROS integration as a starting point for integrating your system with the standalone library. Currently, it is the best available reference.

On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty):

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System Requirements

Although Cartographer may run on other systems, it is confirmed to be working on systems that meet the following requirements:

  • 64-bit, modern CPU (e.g. 3rd generation i7)
  • 16 GB RAM
  • Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) and 16.04 (Xenial)
  • gcc version 4.8.4 and 5.4.0

Known Issues

  • 32-bit builds have libeigen alignment problems which cause crashes and/or memory corruptions.

How to cite us

Background about the algorithms developed for Cartographer can be found in the following publication. If you use Cartographer for your research, we would appreciate it if you cite our paper.

W. Hess, D. Kohler, H. Rapp, and D. Andor, Real-Time Loop Closure in 2D LIDAR SLAM, in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2016. pp. 1271–1278.