Authors: Carlos Campos, Richard Elvira, Juan J. Gómez Rodríguez, José M. M. Montiel, Juan D. Tardos.
The Changelog describes the features of each version.
ORB-SLAM3 is the first real-time SLAM library able to perform Visual, Visual-Inertial and Multi-Map SLAM with monocular, stereo and RGB-D cameras, using pin-hole and fisheye lens models. In all sensor configurations, ORB-SLAM3 is as robust as the best systems available in the literature, and significantly more accurate.
We provide examples to run ORB-SLAM3 in the EuRoC dataset using stereo or monocular, with or without IMU, and in the TUM-VI dataset using fisheye stereo or monocular, with or without IMU. Videos of some example executions can be found at ORB-SLAM3 channel.
This software is based on ORB-SLAM2 developed by Raul Mur-Artal, Juan D. Tardos, J. M. M. Montiel and Dorian Galvez-Lopez (DBoW2).
[ORB-SLAM3] Carlos Campos, Richard Elvira, Juan J. Gómez Rodríguez, José M. M. Montiel and Juan D. Tardós, ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual-Inertial and Multi-Map SLAM, IEEE Transactions on Robotics 37(6):1874-1890, Dec. 2021. PDF.
[IMU-Initialization] Carlos Campos, J. M. M. Montiel and Juan D. Tardós, Inertial-Only Optimization for Visual-Inertial Initialization, ICRA 2020. PDF
[ORBSLAM-Atlas] Richard Elvira, J. M. M. Montiel and Juan D. Tardós, ORBSLAM-Atlas: a robust and accurate multi-map system, IROS 2019. PDF.
[ORBSLAM-VI] Raúl Mur-Artal, and Juan D. Tardós, Visual-inertial monocular SLAM with map reuse, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2 no. 2, pp. 796-803, 2017. PDF.
[Stereo and RGB-D] Raúl Mur-Artal and Juan D. Tardós. ORB-SLAM2: an Open-Source SLAM System for Monocular, Stereo and RGB-D Cameras. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1255-1262, 2017. PDF.
[Monocular] Raúl Mur-Artal, José M. M. Montiel and Juan D. Tardós. ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1147-1163, 2015. (2015 IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award). PDF.
[DBoW2 Place Recognition] Dorian Gálvez-López and Juan D. Tardós. Bags of Binary Words for Fast Place Recognition in Image Sequences. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1188-1197, 2012. PDF
ORB-SLAM3 is released under GPLv3 license. For a list of all code/library dependencies (and associated licenses), please see Dependencies.md.
For a closed-source version of ORB-SLAM3 for commercial purposes, please contact the authors: orbslam (at) unizar (dot) es.
If you use ORB-SLAM3 in an academic work, please cite:
@article{ORBSLAM3_TRO,
title={{ORB-SLAM3}: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual-Inertial
and Multi-Map {SLAM}},
author={Campos, Carlos AND Elvira, Richard AND G\´omez, Juan J. AND Montiel,
Jos\'e M. M. AND Tard\'os, Juan D.},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
volume={37},
number={6},
pages={1874-1890},
year={2021}
}
We have tested the library in Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, but it should be easy to compile in other platforms. A powerful computer (e.g. i7) will ensure real-time performance and provide more stable and accurate results.
We use the new thread and chrono functionalities of C++11.
We use Pangolin for visualization and user interface. Because we use a earlier version of Pangolin, we put it into our own branch and install automatically
We use OpenCV to manipulate images and features. Dowload and install instructions can be found at: http://opencv.org. Please Install OpenCV4.
Required by g2o (see below). Download and install instructions can be found at: http://eigen.tuxfamily.org. Required at least 3.1.0.
We use modified versions of the DBoW2 library to perform place recognition and g2o library to perform non-linear optimizations. Both modified libraries (which are BSD) are included in the Thirdparty folder.
Required to calculate the alignment of the trajectory with the ground truth. Required Numpy module.
- (win) http://www.python.org/downloads/windows
- (deb)
sudo apt install libpython2.7-dev - (mac) preinstalled with osx
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/UZ-SLAMLab/ORB_SLAM3.git ORB_SLAM3
We provide a script build.sh to build the Thirdparty libraries and ORB-SLAM3. Please make sure you have installed all required dependencies (see section 2). Execute:
cd ORB_SLAM3
chmod +x build.sh
./build.sh
This will create libORB_SLAM3.so at lib folder and the executables in Examples folder.