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List of Open Source SLAM projects

matlabbe edited this page Oct 13, 2024 · 69 revisions

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See also: https://github.com/SilenceOverflow/Awesome-SLAM

Last updated: October 2024

Maintained in the last year

Approach Type Stars Created Last Update University/Company  Country
LIO-SAM 3D LiDAR 3400 2020 2024 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
RTAB-Map Visual - 2D/3D LiDAR 2800 2011 2024 Université de Sherbrooke  Canada
FAST-LIO2 3D LiDAR 2700 2021 2024 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
maplab Visual 2600 2017 2023 ETH Zurich (ETHZ-ASL) Switzerland
OpenVINS Visual 2200 2019 2024 University of Delaware USA
hdl graph slam 3D LiDAR 2000 2018 2023 Toyohashi University of Technology Japan
Slam Toolbox 2D LiDAR 1600 2014 2024 Simbe Robotics USA
KISS-ICP 3D LiDAR 1500 2022 2024 University of Bonn Germany
Kimera-VIO Visual 1500 2019 2024 Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS) MIT USA
FAST-LIVO Visual 3D LiDAR 1200 2022 2024 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong
NeRF-SLAM Visual 1200 2022 2023 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
FAST-LIVO2 Visual 3D LiDAR 996 2024 2024 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong
OpenVSLAM Visual 915 2021 2024 Nagoya University Japan
SuMa++ 3D LiDAR 911 2019 2024 University of Bonn Germany
AirSLAM Visual 737 2022 2024 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
GMapping 2D LiDAR 667 2009 2024 University of Freiburg Germany
Hector SLAM 2D LiDAR 645 2011 2024 Technical University of Darmstadt Germany
LIO-Livox 3D LiDAR 644 2021 2023 Livox China
MULLS 3D LiDAR 615 2020 2024 ETH Zurich Switzerland
OV2SLAM Visual 585 2020 2024 Université Paris-Saclay France
Direct LiDAR Inertial Odometry 3D Lidar 584 2023 2024 Verifiable and Control-Theoretic Robotics Laboratory, University of California Los Angeles USA
GLIM 3D LiDAR 497 2023 2024 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Japan
MINS Visual 3D LiDAR 448 2023 2024 University of Delaware USA
LOCUS 3D LiDAR 355 2019 2023 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology USA
LIMO-Velo 3D LiDAR 274 2022 2024 UPC Barcelona Spain
Coco-LIC Visual 3D LiDAR 247 2024 2024 Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University China
SR-LIVO Visual 3D LiDAR 223 2023 2024 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
LiDAR S-Graphs 3D LiDAR 215 2019 2024 University of Luxembourg Luxembourg
LE-VINS Visual 3D LiDAR 96 2024 2024 Wuhan University China
RI-LIO Visual 3D LiDAR 64 2023 2023 Engineering Laboratory for Intelligent Industrial Vision, Chinese Academy of Sciences China
SLIM 3D LiDAR 54 2024 2024 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Hong Kong
Occupancy-SLAM 2D LiDAR 11 2023 2024 University of Technology Sydney Australia

End-of-Life

Approach Type Stars Created Last Update University/Company  Country
ORB-SLAM2 Visual 9400 2016 2017 University of Zaragoza Spain
Google Cartographer 2D-3D LiDAR 7100 2016 2022 Google USA
ORB-SLAM3 Visual 6500 2020 2022 University of Zaragoza  Spain 
VINS-Fusion Visual 3500 2019 2021 Hong Kong University Hong Kong
LSD-SLAM Visual 2600 2014 2014 Technische Universität München (TUM)  Germany
LeGO-LOAM 3D LiDAR 2400 2020 2020 Stevens Institute of Technology USA
R3LIVE Visual 3D LiDAR 2000 2021 2022 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
Elastic Fusion Visual 1800 2015 2022 Imperial College London UK
LOAM 3D LiDAR 1700 2013 2019 Carnegie Mellon University USA
LVI-SAM Visual 3D LiDAR 1500 2021 2022 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
SegMap 3D LiDAR 1100 2016 2021 ETH Zurich (ETHZ-ASL) Switzerland
RGB-D SLAM Visual 943 2013 2018 Technische Universität München (TUM) Germany
LIO-mapping 3D LiDAR 912 2019 2019 RAM-LAB Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
PTAM Visual 790 2013 2013 University of Oxford UK
BLAM 3D LiDAR 788 2016 2016 University of California, Berkeley USA
CT-ICP 3D LiDAR 753 2021 2022 MINES ParisTech France
DVO SLAM Visual 636 2012 2013 Technische Universität München (TUM) Germany
D-LIOM 3D Lidar 288 2021 2022 School of Software Engineering, Tongji University China
CoSLAM Visual 287 2013 2018 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore
ethzasl icp mapping 2D-3D LiDAR 272 2011 2019 ETH Zurich (ETHZ-ASL) Switzerland
VIDO-SLAM Visual 188 2021 2021 Australian National University Australia
Karto SLAM 2D LiDAR 147 2010 2020 SRI International USA
LF-VIO Visual 116 2022 2022 State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University China
mVIL-Fusion 3D LiDAR 91 2022 2022 Xi'an University of Science and Technology China