What is Cartographer?
Google announce the open source release of Cartographer, a real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) library in 2D and 3D with ROS support, in October 2016. As Robotics Trends said, "Google wants to democratize the development of SLAM technology by releasing an open-source version of its Cartographer mapping library." Google is now putting it to use to map anything from hotels to museums.
Cartographer is also a backpack equipped with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology.
Reference:
Google Cartographer SLAM Library Now Open-Source - Robotics ...
Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Cartographer
Google Cartographer | Read the Docs
Google Cartographer ROS | Read the Docs
W. Hess, D. Kohler, H. Rapp, and D. Andor, Real-Time Loop Closure in 2D LIDAR SLAM, in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2016. pp. 1271–1278.