RO-LOCALIZATION(1)

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🎀 RO-LOCALIZATION(1) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the MRPT corner of the man pages — this one is ro-localization, straight outta the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit. it's giving robot-tracking realness and honestly? we're obsessed. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ro-localization — Monte-Carlo localization for beacon range-only measurements 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ro-localization config_file.ini

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so, ro-localization is a command-line application that processes a rawlog and tracks a mobile robot pose from the sequence of odometry and observations. yes, it really does that. it can also do global localization — like, going from "no idea where I am" to "oh wait, found myself" energy. main character behavior fr fr. ✨

here's the tea though: this program is a specialization of pf-localization</>, except with an extended model to cope with unknown, dynamic biases in the beacon ranges. so like, when the beacons are lying to you a little bit and changing their story, this one keeps up. no cap. 🫶

it also shows a real-time visualization in 3D of the particles, the beacons, and the measurements. gorgeous. iconic. a whole vibe check happening live on your screen. 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

please report bugs at https://github.com/MRPT/mrpt/issues

(not me begging you to file an issue... okay yes, that's exactly what's happening. the devs wanna know bestie 😭)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the application list and their documentation: https://docs.mrpt.org/reference/latest/applications.html

pf-localization

(go read that one too, it's the parent vibes — this one is the glow-up 💜)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

ro-localization is part of the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT), and was originally written by the MAPIR laboratory (University of Malaga).

this manual page was written by Jose Luis Blanco <joseluisblancoc@gmail.com>.

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License.

on Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the BSD License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD.

ngl, the BSD License is the chillest license. just saying. 🙈

and that's a wrap, babe 💖 this page was generated with perl v5.40.1 and dated 2025-03-21 — so you know the lore is up to date. stay localized, queen. periodt. 🎀✨🦋

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