The Control Engineering Group (CEG) at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) is aiming to establish a Field Robotics Laboratory (FROST lab), which will focus in the area of fundamental robotics in unstructured and dynamical environments, with large-scale robots under experimental evaluation scenarios in real life applications. Characteristic robotic examples can be extracted from the fields of construction, mining, forestry, agriculture, automotive, military and space. Representative FROSTs areas of interest include: a) Autonomous and Remote Navigation, b) Path Planning and Localization, c) Inspection Robotics, d) Machine Automation, e) Assisting Robots, and f) Augmented Reality.

Fundamental property of this lab will be the ability to provide accurate and fast localization information of multiple subjects under tracking (e.g. a real scale vehicle) operating in both indoor and outdoor environments and thus we are presently procuring a multiple cameras based motion capture system.