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Version: 1.1 (Latest)

Raptor Guide™

Welcome to the Raptor Guide documentation.

Vantor Raptor Guide is a system that provides real-time absolute 3D positioning of airborne vehicles by performing visual map matching between images captured from an onboard calibrated camera sensor and high-resolution 3D maps.

Documentation​

  • Integration Guide - SDK integration, configuration, and usage.

  • Service Integration Guide - Raptor Server integration via Python client or Protocol Buffers.

  • License Management Guide - Fingerprint generation, license installation, and troubleshooting.

  • Conventions and Coordinate Systems - Coordinate systems, reference frames, and attitude representations.

  • Vulkan Requirements - GPU requirements and multi-GPU configuration.

  • Uncertainty - Understanding Confidence scores and covariance estimates.

  • Dependency Reference - Compiler/linker flags and runtime shared-library dependencies of the shipped libraptor.so.

  • Troubleshooting - Common runtime issues and solutions, and how to debug CANV recordings using Vantor 3D Explorer.

  • SDK APIs - C++ API documentation for Configuration, Pose Estimation, Context, Geospatial Representation, Image & Lens, Map Utilities, and Version APIs.

  • Server APIs - Protocol Buffer API for the Raptor Guide server.