Applications such as automatic transportation of goods or people, agriculture, patrolling or civil protection, very often require the ability, for a mobile robot, of moving through the environment keeping an accurate estimate of its position through a robust odometry system. In the robotics field, several solutions are proposed for the odometry problem. Each solution fits a given scenario, but proves to be inaccurate or even unusable in other scenarios.

The ROAMFREE project aims at a general solution to the problem of multisensor robust odometry for autonomous robots and vehicles. The approach leverages on the modular use of logical sensors (i.e., odometric systems composed by one or more physical sensors, and the software processing their output) to provide a robust, readily available, tool for odometry.