ViSP (Visual Servoing Platform)
- Software
- Perception
- Library
ViSP is a cross-platform C++ library for prototyping visual tracking and visual servoing applications, including control laws for robots and simulation tools.
Made by Inria, Lagadic team, France (checked on github.com/lagadic (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/lagadic/visp (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 372e030 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- GPL-2.0-only (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE.txt (opens in a new tab) (GPL-2.0-only) at commit 372e030 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
Copyleft: Modified source must be published.
What it does
- Computes control laws that can be applied to robotic systems for visual servoing.
- Provides a set of visual features tracked with real-time image processing or computer vision algorithms.
- Offers visual tracking and pose estimation methods, including a generic model-based tracker.
- Includes simulation capabilities.
- Targets robotics, computer vision, augmented reality and computer animation.
- Runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android, with ROS2 build status listed for several Ubuntu releases.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 372e030.
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
- 15 Oct 2026 on master
- Latest release
- ViSP 3.7.0 release (19 Dec 2025)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots on Robotheca that use 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.
Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.