floam vs cartographer

floam

Fast LOAM: Fast and Optimized Lidar Odometry And Mapping for indoor/outdoor localization IROS 2021 (by wh200720041)

cartographer

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

Slam Mapping Localization Robotics self-driving

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floam		cartographer
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1	Mentions	1
1,003	Stars	6,971
-	Growth	0.8%
4.2	Activity	3.1
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Apache License 2.0

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floam

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Lidar 3D Mapping Recommendations
3 projects | /r/ROS | 4 Sep 2022

Further you may take a look at Floam. It is an ICP approach used within RTAB that may be chosen, but it is also a fully fledged 3D Slam approach afaik. https://github.com/wh200720041/floam

cartographer

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SLAM algorithm for a mobile robot with (2D)LiDAR, IMU and camera
1 project | /r/robotics | 1 Jan 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing floam and cartographer you can also consider the following projects:

rtabmap - RTAB-Map library and standalone application

hdl_graph_slam - 3D LIDAR-based Graph SLAM

slam_gmapping - Slam Gmapping for ROS2

ssl_slam - SSL_SLAM: Lightweight 3-D Localization and Mapping for Solid-State LiDAR IEEE RA-L 2021

MRPT - :zap: The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT)

openvslam - OpenVSLAM: A Versatile Visual SLAM Framework

mapper - OpenOrienteering Mapper is a software for creating maps for the orienteering sport.

maplab - A Modular and Multi-Modal Mapping Framework

PythonRobotics - Python sample codes for robotics algorithms.

elevation_mapping - Robot-centric elevation mapping for rough terrain navigation

School-Building-Map - There is difficulty in finding the way to classes at the beginning of a new term. With a program, develop a way to take an initial destination from the user and an end goal destination, and map out the shortest path between them, and display it.