Welcome to the site of the Northern Robotics Laboratory (norlab) at Laval University. Our research laboratory is specialized in mobile and autonomous systems working in northern or difficult conditions. We aim at investigating new challenges related to navigation algorithms to push the boundary of what is currently possible to achieve with a mobile robot in real-life conditions. The current focus of the laboratory is on localization algorithms designed for laser sensors (lidar) and 3D reconstruction of the environment. We will use this website to showcase our results and to simplify the knowledge transfer with some general tips & tricks.
News
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Three articles accepted at ICRA 2019!
We are happy to announce that we have three accepted publications at the 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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First sensor from RoboSense in Quebec!
The laboratory received recently a RS-LIDAR-16 from RoboSense. This is the first unit delivered in Quebec and we are happy to use it for our project on 3D ma...
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Undergraduate Student Research Awards
Congratulation to Simon-Pierre Deschênes for his Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA). We are welcoming this addition to the team during this summer!
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French Version of the Site
We start the deployment of the French version of the website. Don’t hesitate to report any article missing a translation.
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The Unofficial Website Launch
We are launching unofficially the website for the new lab at Laval University. There are still quite some pages to fix, but we have to start somewhere…
Research
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Scutigera Project
Exploration of large caves is challenging using traditional mapping tools. There are limited places to install a tripod equipped with a highly accurate lidar...
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Manipulation
Open position for a Ph.D. student!
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Libpointmatcher
Libpointmatcher is a library that implements the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm for alignment of point clouds. It supports both point-to-point and ...
Publications
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Survey on UAV, lidar and underground mapping
This survey presents an overall view of lidar (Light Detection And Ranging) used on UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and their project.
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Learning a Bias Correction for Lidar-only Motion Estimation
This paper presents a novel technique to correct for bias in a classical estimator using a learning approach. We apply a learned bias correction to a lidar-o...
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A Review of Point Cloud Registration Algorithms for Mobile Robotics
The topic of this review is geometric registration in robotics. Registration algorithms associate sets of data into a common coordinate system. They have b...