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Package Summary

ViSP standing for Visual Servoing Platform is a modular cross platform library that allows prototyping and developing applications using visual tracking and visual servoing technics at the heart of the researches done by Inria Lagadic team. ViSP is able to compute control laws that can be applied to robotic systems. It provides a set of visual features that can be tracked using real time image processing or computer vision algorithms. ViSP provides also simulation capabilities. ViSP can be useful in robotics, computer vision, augmented reality and computer animation.

  • Maintainer status: maintained
  • Maintainer: Fabien Spindler <Fabien.Spindler AT inria DOT fr>
  • Author: Thomas Moulard, Fabien Spindler
  • License: GPLv2

What can I use ViSP for?

This package provides packaging of the ViSP library for ROS. For information about the ViSP library, please see the ViSP main page at https://visp.inria.fr.

ViSP provides several trackers which relies on visual servoing techniques to track an object and estimate its position in real-time.

The next video shows what can be done with visp_tracker package that uses visp package.

The next video shows what can be done with visp_auto_tracker package that uses also visp package.

This other video shows how using demo_pioneer package that depends on visp it may possible to control a Pioneer P3-DX mobile robot using visual servoing.

Installing ViSP

To install ViSP and additional third party dependencies such as OpenCV, Coin, ... please run the following command:

  $ sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-visp

External documentation

ViSP is a library that is maintained by Inria Lagadic research team ViSP homepage.


2025-07-12 20:24