• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
SRI logo
  • About
    • Press room
    • Our history
  • Expertise
    • Advanced imaging systems
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Biomedical R&D services
    • Biomedical sciences
    • Computer vision
    • Cyber & formal methods
    • Education and learning
    • Innovation strategy and policy
    • National security
    • Ocean & space
    • Quantum
    • Robotics, sensors & devices
    • Speech & natural language
    • Video test & measurement
  • Ventures
  • NSIC
  • Careers
  • Contact
  • 日本支社
Search
Close
Computer vision April 4, 2017

CamSLAM: Advanced Real-Time Mapping and Localization

CamSLAM™ is a navigation software platform that provides fast, accurate real-time mapping and localization. It offers superior navigation, mapping, and safety for a range of robotic and related mobility applications including augmented and virtual reality, person tracking, robot/ drone control, vehicle navigation, and tele-manipulation.

Technology

The CamSLAM software platform exploits highly optimized vision algorithms for accurate localization. It works with multiple sensors for robust, low-power, real-time localization on mobile platforms.

YouTube player

Key Capabilities of CamSLAM Suite

Navigation

  • Precisely locates in 3D both indoors and outdoors
  • Live GPS-denied navigation
  • Superior open-loop navigation algorithms provide high-accuracy estimates of movement with low drift rates

Mapping

  • Visual map generation and map-assisted navigation
  • Maps and tags areas of interest
  • Automatic real-time construction and updating of landmark maps with loop closures to reset navigation drift

Obstacle Detection and Safety

  • Robust stereo vision algorithms
  • Stereo-based 3D sensing enables high-accuracy obstacle detection and avoidance
  • Can use multiple sensors for dynamic performance in challenging conditions including motion blur, bumping into walls, moving people, and dark areas

Path Planning

  • Real-time localization enables repeatable precision
  • Dynamically creates maps to ensure low-drift errors in subsequent runs

Features

  • Can capture and process synchronized data from multiple sensors including accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, barometer, odometer, GPS and monocular/stereo camera data to form an optimal localization solution in real-time
  • Computes six degree of freedom (3D position and 3D orientation) navigation tracks in real time
  • Can continuously track visual features and estimate 3D location of scene points over large windows of time
  • Robust in difficult situations such as crowded areas, dark area, fast or very jerky platform motions
  • Able to generate visual landmark maps on the fly in real time and use landmarks to re-acquire positional constraints when revisiting a site
  • Maps can be stored and reused to improve localization, guide navigation, and provide highly accurate route re-tracing
  • Software libraries run on multiple devices such as those running Windows, Linux, and ARM-based processors
  • Runs on low-powered smartphone processors

Hardware and Sensors

CamSLAM is designed to run on low-cost sensor and processor hardware and can be ported to smartphones. SRI offers clients extensive hardware layer expertise integrating CamSLAM with COTS hardware including SRI sensor-processor boards incorporating multiple sensors: stereo/monocular cameras, IMU, barometer, magnetometer, GPS etc. with embedded FPGA/ARM processor and smartphone processor boards.

Share this
Career call to action image

Work with us

Search jobs

How can we help?

Once you hit send…

We’ll match your inquiry to the person who can best help you.

Expect a response within 48 hours.

Our work

Case studies

Publications

Timeline of innovation

Areas of expertise

Institute

Leadership

Press room

Media inquiries

Compliance

Careers

Job listings

Contact

SRI Ventures

Our locations

Headquarters

333 Ravenswood Ave
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA

+1 (650) 859-2000

Subscribe to our newsletter


日本支社
SRI International
  • Contact us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies
  • DMCA
  • Copyright © 2023 SRI International
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}