introlab/rtabmap

RTAB-Map library and standalone application

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rtabmap

RTAB-Map library and standalone application.

For more information (e.g., papers, major updates), visit RTAB-Map's home page.
For installation instructions and examples, visit RTAB-Map's wiki.
For the C++ API of the library, see the API documentation, which also lists all parameters and command-line tools.

To use RTAB-Map under ROS, visit the rtabmap page on the ROS wiki.

Acknowledgements

This project is supported by IntRoLab - Intelligent / Interactive / Integrated / Interdisciplinary Robot Lab, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

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ros-$ROS_DISTRO-rtabmap

	Distro	Ubuntu
ROS 1	Noetic (EOL)	20.04
ROS 2	Humble	22.04
ROS 2	Iron (EOL)	22.04
ROS 2	Jazzy	24.04
ROS 2	Kilted	24.04
ROS 2	Lyrical	26.04
ROS 2	Rolling	26.04
Docker	rtabmap

Released is the version bloomed into rosdistro; In apt is what apt install actually gives you today. They differ while a release is waiting on a buildfarm sync.

android

ios

localization

mapping

project-tango

robotics

ros

ros2

scanning

slam

Project health

Overall

4.4/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

4/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

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Ben Hagen

90 followers · starred Jan 2015

Sherlock Huang

70 followers · starred Mar 2016

MoonFruit

25 followers · starred Nov 2025

Jonathan Beri

622 followers · starred Oct 2026

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