The MRPT project

1. Introduction

Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) provides C++ libraries aimed at researchers in mobile robotics and computer vision. Libraries include SLAM solutions, 3D(6D) geometry, SE(2)/SE(3) Lie groups, probability density functions (pdfs) over points, landmarks, poses and maps, Bayesian inference (Kalman filters, particle filters), image processing, obstacle avoidance, etc. MRPT also provides GUI apps for Stereo camera calibration, dataset inspection, and much more.

2. Resources

• Download the latest unstable code with: git clone https://github.com/MRPT/mrpt.git --depth 1
• Ask questions at: this Google group or at stackoverflow (please, use the tag mrpt!)
• Main project website, including sources and Windows installer downloads
• C++ API reference
• ROS packages: mrpt_navigation, mrpt_slam
• Bindings documentation (Python, Matlab)
• Source code for dozens of examples
• Example configuration files for MRPT applications can be found at: MRPT/share/mrpt/config_files
• Some sample datasets are stored in: MRPT/share/mrpt/datasets. A more complete dataset repository is available online.
• How to contribute with your code for new feaures, bug fixes, etc.

3. Install

3.1. Ubuntu PPA

See PPA for branch 1.5:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:joseluisblancoc/mrpt-1.5
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install libmrpt-dev mrpt-apps

Supported distributions:

• Ubuntu 14.04LTS Trusty.
• Ubuntu 16.04LTS Xenial.
• For more recent versions of Ubuntu, it is recommended to use mrpt>=1.9.9.

3.2. Build from sources

Minimum compiler requisites:

• mrpt >=2.0 (master branch):
  • Ubuntu 16.04LTS Xenial: default gcc/clang versions
  • Windows: Visual Studio 2015/2017.
• mrpt 1.5.* and maintenance mrpt-1.5 branch:
  • Ubuntu 14.04LTS Trusty: default gcc/clang versions
  • Windows: Visual Studio 2012

To build in Debian/Ubuntu follow the steps below. See full build docs online for Windows instructions or to learn all the details.

• Install minimum recommended dependencies:

sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config cmake libwxgtk3.0-dev \
libopencv-dev libeigen3-dev libgtest-dev

• Install additional dependencies to enable all MRPT features:

sudo apt install libftdi-dev freeglut3-dev zlib1g-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev \
libudev-dev libfreenect-dev libdc1394-22-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev \
libassimp-dev libjpeg-dev   libsuitesparse-dev libpcap-dev liboctomap-dev

• Build with cmake as usual:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

4. License

MRPT is released under the new BSD license.