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Very cool -- would've loved to also see monocular SLAM support, but sounds like that may be coming later.

For people interested, there are a couple of very interesting projects and studies on how to do just that:

* Direct Sparse Odometry: http://vision.in.tum.de/research/vslam/dso

* LSD-SLAM: https://github.com/tum-vision/lsd_slam

LSD-SLAM and Cartographer both support ROS so perhaps integrating the two would be fairly straightforward (using LSD-SLAM's monocular features with Cartographer for SLAM).




PL-SVO is also a very new and interesting approach to watch out for. They open sourced the stereo slam version and claim the monocular one is on the way.

http://mapir.isa.uma.es/mapirwebsite/index.php/people/164-ru...


ORB-SLAM is another good open source project

https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM2

Waiting for a cheap hackable, linux based wheeled robot with cameras for SLAM - the $250 Xiaomi Mi hoover looks alright, anyone bought one?




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