Welcome to the site of the Northern Robotics Laboratory (norlab) at Université Laval. 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

January 14, 2026:

Norlab heads to Nunavut in March 2026 to assess Arctic challenges ↗

This page redirects to the original article on Eye on the Arctic page.

February 12, 2024:

We are co-organizing a workshop on Field Robotics at ICRA2024 !

Find all the information here: link to the website

April 12, 2022:

A national award for a member of Norlab!

Congratulation to François Pomerleau for receiving the 2022 Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher Award from CS-Can | Info-Can, the Canadian S...

February 04, 2021:

Four internships in robotics for the summer 2021 all taken!

Norlab is opening four internships covering multiple fields of study for this summer. Apply as soon as you can, we are closing the openings soon. Here is the...

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Research

January 06, 2026:

High-Resolution Motion Capture (HRMC) Dataset

The HRMC dataset provides high-frequency ground-truth motion data, capturing the full 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) pose of the system over time. This includes...

July 18, 2025:

CRYOTIC

The Challenging Robotics in Year-round, Outdoor, and Time-critical missions In extreme Conditions (CRYOTIC) project aims to develop resilient autonomous navi...

July 10, 2025:

Tumbling-Induced Gyroscope Saturation (TIGS) Dataset

The TIGS dataset is designed to help researchers understand how sensors behave in extreme, real-world motion. It contains data recorded from a mechanical LiD...

May 19, 2025:

FOMO - A Proposal for a Multi-Season Dataset for Robot Navigation in Forêt Montmorency

In this paper, we propose the FoMo (Forêt Montmorency) dataset: a comprehensive, multi-season data collection. Located in the Montmorency Forest, Quebec, Can...

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