ANYbotics/elevation_mapping

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: no_releases

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1857 stars · 511 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A ROS package for robot-centric elevation mapping of rough terrain, built for mobile and legged robots equipped with pose estimation and distance sensors. It produces local probabilistic elevation maps that explicitly handle pose estimation drift for navigation tasks.

Use cases

• map terrain elevation for legged robot locomotion
• build local elevation maps from depth cameras or lidar on a mobile robot
• handle odometry drift in terrain mapping for rough-terrain navigation
• provide elevation maps as input to a locomotion or footstep planner
• map outdoor terrain like stairs and forests with a quadruped robot

When to choose

• you need probabilistic, robot-centric elevation maps on ROS for rough terrain navigation
• your robot has pose estimation plus a depth or range sensor and you need drift-aware local mapping
• you work with legged robots (e.g. ANYmal) and need terrain perception for locomotion planning

When to avoid

• you need actively maintained software - the project is no longer actively maintained
• you need global large-scale mapping rather than a local map around the robot
• you are not using ROS or cannot integrate C++ ROS packages

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

simulation robotics nlp robotics autonomous-vehicles simulation cpp elevation-mapping terrain-mapping ros legged-robots perception navigation probabilistic-mapping linux

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