KISS-ICP
- Software
- Navigation and mapping
- Library
KISS-ICP is a LiDAR odometry pipeline that estimates motion from LiDAR scans and is meant to work on most cases without tuning parameters.
Made by Photogrammetry & Robotics Bonn, Germany (checked on github.com/PRBonn (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/PRBonn/kiss-icp (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 1ffa7d7 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit 1ffa7d7 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Runs as a LiDAR odometry pipeline, aiming to work in most cases without parameter tuning.
- Installable as a Python package with pip install kiss-icp.
- Has a ROS 2 wrapper that is built with colcon from a ROS 2 workspace.
- Based on a paper on point-to-point ICP registration published in IEEE RA-L in 2023.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 1ffa7d7.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 4 May 2026 on main
- Latest release
- v1.3.0 (26 Apr 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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