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.. Copyright 2016 The Cartographer Authors
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Cartographer
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`Cartographer`_ is a system that provides real-time simultaneous localization
and mapping `SLAM`_ across multiple platforms and sensor configurations. This
project provides Cartographer's ROS integration.
.. _Cartographer: http://www.github.com/googlecartographer/cartographer
.. _SLAM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping
Getting Started with ROS
========================
You will find complete documentation for using Cartographer with ROS at `our
Read the Docs site`_.
.. _our Read the Docs site: https://google-cartographer-ros.readthedocs.io
Getting Started without ROS
===========================
On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty):
.. code-block:: bash
# Install the required libraries that are available as debs
sudo apt-get install \
g++ \
google-mock \
libboost-all-dev \
libgflags-dev \
libgoogle-glog-dev \
liblua5.2-dev \
libprotobuf-dev \
libsuitesparse-dev \
libwebp-dev \
ninja-build \
protobuf-compiler \
python-sphinx
# Build and install Ceres
git clone https://ceres-solver.googlesource.com/ceres-solver
cd ceres-solver
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
# Build Cartographer
cd cartographer
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -G Ninja
ninja