Visual SLAM with GPS, to SLAM/GPS or not to SLAM/GPS, that is the question…right? Watch the video below as Chase breaks down the difference between vSLAM and GPS.

vSLAM, or visual SLAM, allows a device to pinpoint location, based on current location and takes into consideration your previous locations. This technology was created not to compete with GPS, but to work in unison with it. Utilizing that data allows the information to be localized to the environment.

GPS is a global navigation system that focuses on your exact location using satellite information. GPS does not take into previous locations to relay your current positioning.

When you add one on top of the other, it allows you to precisely know where you are in places where GPS is available and to also know where you are relative to the places you have been when GPS is not available.

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Video Transcript

Visual SLAM with GPS, can you have one without the other? Yes.

Typically, all the visual SLAM research that’s been done to this point has been done indoors where you can’t have GPS. That’s one of the biggest motivators for visual SLAM. 

As a technology, it can go to places where you simply can’t with a GPS.

Visual SLAM operates relatively. So it can tell where you are based on where you started, based on where you were five minutes ago. That’s the information it uses to localize in any environment.

GPS is a global navigation system where it doesn’t matter what you’ve seen previously or where you’ve been, you can find out precisely where you are in the world.

When you add one on top of the other, it allows you to precisely know where you are in places where GPS is available and to also know where you are relative to the places you have been when GPS is not available.

One example is if you’re going from an outdoor environment, say mowing the lawn into a shed, you would switch from using GPS to using vSLAM to get safely back to your charging station if it’s in the garage or something.