MOLA LiDAR odometry
- Software
- Navigation and mapping
- Library
A LiDAR odometry library built on the MOLA and MRPT frameworks, usable inside ROS 2 or from a command-line tool on offline datasets.
Made by The MOLA SLAM framework, Spain (checked on github.com/MOLAorg (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/MOLAorg/mola_lidar_odometry (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit b51a777 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- GPL-3.0-only (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (GPL-3.0-only) at commit b51a777 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
Copyleft: Modified source must be published.
What it does
- Provides the C++ library mola_lidar_odometry that estimates motion from LiDAR scans.
- Sensor input is supplied through MOLA components.
- Includes ROS 2 example launch files in the ros2-launchs folder.
- Offers the mola-lidar-odometry-cli command for running on recorded datasets.
- Demonstrated with lidar-inertial odometry on the Oxford Spires dataset and lidar-only odometry on KITTI.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit b51a777.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 16 Oct 2026 on develop
- Latest release
- mola_lidar_odometry 3.3.0 (28 Sept 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
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