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Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit
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<p>The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT) is a <a href="/facts/Cross-platform_software/16zqdvNR">cross-platform software</a> <a href="/facts/C%252B%252B/Et0F2qn9">C++</a> <a href="/facts/Library_(computing)/xRzL3P7q">library</a> for helping <a href="/facts/Robotics/wkmvodJz">robotics</a> researchers design and implement <a href="/facts/Algorithm/fnl5NmRt">algorithms</a> related to <a href="/facts/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping/sUFsNFG9">simultaneous localization and mapping</a> (SLAM), <a href="/facts/Computer_vision/Tl2Yyk66">computer vision</a>, and <a href="/facts/Motion_planning/DoSPv4dB">motion planning</a> (obstacle avoidance). Different research groups have employed MRPT to implement projects reported in some of the major robotics journals and conferences. </p><p>MRPT is <a href="/facts/Free_and_open-source_software/1cHtjLCB">free and open-source software</a> released under the <a href="/facts/BSD_licenses/XLtmLp5x">BSD 3-clause</a> license; pre-1.0.0 versions were released under the <a href="/facts/GNU_General_Public_License/S75KhLSX">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL). </p><p>Some features included in the project as user-applications: </p> <ul><li>Visualization and manipulation of large datasets.</li> <li>SLAM algorithms: incremental mapping with <a href="/facts/Iterative_Closest_Point/JlQtoKrg">ICP</a>, Extended <a href="/facts/Kalman_filter/wNK7rnbk">Kalman filtering</a>, Rao-Blackwellized particle filters and <a href="/facts/GraphSLAM/sUFsNFG9">GraphSLAM</a>.</li> <li>Grabbing datasets from <a href="/facts/Robotic_sensors/5FdVVG4q">robotic sensors</a>.</li></ul> <p>Upon a selection of the individual libraries provided by MRPT, users can develop new applications. </p><p>MRPT participated in <a href="/facts/Google_Summer_of_Code/M8rDIn6W">Google Summer of Code</a> in 2016–2018. </p>