maplab VS openvslam

Compare maplab vs openvslam and see what are their differences.

maplab

A Modular and Multi-Modal Mapping Framework (by ethz-asl)

openvslam

OpenVSLAM: A Versatile Visual SLAM Framework (by xdspacelab)
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maplab openvslam
2 3
2,466 2,952
1.3% -
6.8 4.0
3 months ago about 3 years ago
C++ C++
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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maplab

Posts with mentions or reviews of maplab. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Where to hire Jetson developers?
    1 project | /r/JetsonNano | 14 Mar 2023
    I've ported https://github.com/ethz-asl/maplab/releases/tag/1.3 to the TK-1 and have some OpenCV experience with the Jetson family but no specific camera driver experience. Are you looking for a long term hire or just this effort?
  • DARPA SubT Challenge Final Results Announced
    1 project | /r/robotics | 26 Sep 2021
    I haven't had a chance to look at the data in detail, but I assume you're talking about the flip-flopping of some clouds from one of the ANYmals? We use a centralized mapping framework called MapLab which tries to optimally align the maps of all robots and generate a single consistent map. Map optimization is totally out of my domain, but I suspect a few bad constraints caused the optimization to oscillate between two local minima. It gave the operator a heart attack at the time, but its a fairly common occurrence before the process is complete, and fortunately it all got worked out.

openvslam

Posts with mentions or reviews of openvslam. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-20.
  • Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2021
    This might be the case. However there is an additional risk and process component:

    - you might not want to risk because you don't have lawyers etc in your company.

    - even if you have lawyers etc in your company, if there are 2 alternatives one which is just an MIT license, you'll probably go for that one because you don't want to have a 1.5 month review of the use of this AGPL licensed alternative.

    In general things like this https://github.com/xdspacelab/openvslam/wiki/Termination-of-... (repo with 3k stars), an effort terminated because of some traces of GPL code MIGHT be somewhere in there comes to light. Even though Grafana etc are mostly tools, for my startup I would probably not risk any of this (for my own sake and also for any kind of due diligence in case it ever gets acquired)

  • OpenVSLAM – Termination of the release because of GPLv3
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2021
  • Looking for cheap solution for many-camera SLAM
    2 projects | /r/embedded | 13 Jan 2021
    OpenVSLAM

What are some alternatives?

When comparing maplab and openvslam you can also consider the following projects:

rtabmap - RTAB-Map library and standalone application

ORB_SLAM3 - ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual-Inertial and Multi-Map SLAM

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

tello-ros2 - ROS2 node for DJI Tello and Visual SLAM for mapping of indoor environments.

SuperPoint_SLAM - SuperPoint + ORB_SLAM2

slam_gmapping - Slam Gmapping for ROS2

open_vins - An open source platform for visual-inertial navigation research.

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

Kimera - Index repo for Kimera code

ov2slam - OV²SLAM is a Fully Online and Versatile Visual SLAM for Real-Time Applications