Kompass
- Software
- Navigation and mapping
- Framework
Kompass is an event-driven navigation layer for robots, built on GPU-accelerated C++ and part of the EMOS stack. It plans, controls, maps and protects robot motion at runtime.
Made by Automatika Robotics.
Source on GitHub: github.com/automatika-robotics/kompass (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit ef90655 (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 ef90655 (opens in a new tab), on 22 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Components cover planning, control, local and global mapping, safety and motion testing.
- Any component can react to events from another, so the stack reconfigures at runtime without relaunch.
- Behaviors are written as Python recipes that wire events to actions instead of behavior trees.
- Core algorithms run on CPU or GPU through GPGPU, with the same recipe across platforms.
- Models such as detectors or VLMs can trigger navigation changes like any sensor reading.
- Supports differential drive, Ackermann, omnidirectional and legged robots through one configuration.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit ef90655.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 22 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- 0.4.1 (7 Jan 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 22 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
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