Get Started with Navigation Toolbox

Design, simulate, and deploy algorithms for autonomous navigation

Navigation Toolbox™ provides algorithms and analysis tools for motion planning, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and inertial navigation. The toolbox includes customizable search and sampling-based path-planners, as well as metrics for validating and comparing paths. You can create 2D and 3D map representations, generate maps using SLAM algorithms, and interactively visualize and debug map generation with the SLAM map builder app. The toolbox provides sensor models and algorithms for localization. You can simulate and visualize IMU, GPS, and wheel encoder sensor data, and tune fusion filters for multi-sensor pose estimation.

Reference examples are provided for automated driving, robotics, and consumer electronics applications. You can test your navigation algorithms by deploying them directly to hardware (with MATLAB^® Coder™ or Simulink^® Coder).

Tutorials

Rotations, Orientation, and Quaternions

This example reviews concepts in three-dimensional rotations and how quaternions are used to describe orientation and rotations.
Orientation, Position, and Coordinate Convention

Learn about toolbox conventions for spatial representation and coordinate systems.
Introduction to Simulating IMU Measurements

This example shows how to simulate inertial measurement unit (IMU) measurements using the imuSensor System object.
Estimate Position and Orientation of a Ground Vehicle

This example shows how to estimate the position and orientation of ground vehicles by fusing data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver.
Estimate Robot Pose with Scan Matching

This example demonstrates how to match two laser scans using the Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) algorithm [1].
Plan Mobile Robot Paths Using RRT

This example shows how to use the rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm to plan a path for a vehicle through a known map.
Implement Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) with Lidar Scans

Implement offline SLAM using a pose graph and a collection series of lidar scans, and build a map of the environment.
Perform SLAM Using 3-D Lidar Point Clouds

Implement SLAM using 3-D lidar data, point cloud processing algorithms, and pose graph optimization.

Videos

Navigation Toolbox Overview
Learn about the various functionalities supported in Navigation Toolbox