# Kimera-VIO for RealSense cameras in ROS2

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**Tags:** ros2, slam, perception\
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/kimera-vio-for-realsense-cameras-in-ros2/49387 "2025-08-01T16:09:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/kimera-vio-for-realsense-cameras-in-ros2/49387/1 "2025-08-01T16:09:33Z")

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[Kimera-VIO](https://github.com/MIT-SPARK/Kimera-VIO) is a performant visual inertial odometry package from the MIT SPARK Lab built in ROS1. To enable using Kimera-VIO with newer ROS2 projects, I spent some time and created a docker stetup for running Kimera-VIO-ROS in an Ubuntu 20.04 container while running a RealSense camera locally. I thought this might be useful for other RealSense users out there!

Github: [GitHub - mbpeterson70/kimera-vio-ros2-realsense: A framework for running Kimera-VIO-ROS in a docker container with a RealSense camera onboard a computer running ROS2](https://github.com/mbpeterson70/kimera-vio-ros2-realsense)

Credits: original Kimera-VIO ROS1 repo [here](https://github.com/MIT-SPARK/Kimera-VIO-ROS).