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In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a robust motion formation distributed control algorithm for a team of mobile robots. The primary task for the team is to form a geometric shape, which can be freely translated and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Hector Garcia de Marina , Johan Siemonsma , Bayu Jayawardhana , Ming Cao

Whole-body geometric calibration of humanoid robots using classical robot calibration methods is a timeconsuming and experimentally burdensome task. However, despite its significance for accurate control and simulation, it is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Thanh D V Nguyen , Vincent Bonnet , Pierre Fernbach , David Daney , Florent Lamiraux

Robot navigation technology is required to accomplish difficult tasks in various environments. In navigation, it is necessary to know the information of the external environments and the state of the robot under the environment. On the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

In order to fuse measurements from multiple sensors mounted on a mobile robot, it is needed to express them in a common reference system through their relative spatial transformations. In this paper, we present a method to estimate the full…

Achieving safe and reliable autonomous driving relies greatly on the ability to achieve an accurate and robust perception system; however, this cannot be fully realized without precisely calibrated sensors. Environmental and operational…

Precise calibration is the basis for the vision-guided robot system to achieve high-precision operations. Systems with multiple eyes (cameras) and multiple hands (robots) are particularly sensitive to calibration errors, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Zishun Zhou , Liping Ma , Xilong Liu , Zhiqiang Cao , Junzhi Yu

We present a collaborative visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework for service robots. With an edge server maintaining a map database and performing global optimization, each robot can register to an existing map,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Ouyang , Xuesong Shi , Yujie Wang , Yuxin Tian , Yingzhe Shen , Dawei Wang , Peng Wang , Zhiqiang Cao

Automatic extrinsic sensor calibration is a fundamental problem for multi-sensor platforms. Reliable and general-purpose solutions should be computationally efficient, require few assumptions about the structure of the sensing environment,…

Despite the number of works published in recent years, vehicle localization remains an open, challenging problem. While map-based localization and SLAM algorithms are getting better and better, they remain a single point of failure in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Luca Mozzarelli , Luca Cattaneo , Matteo Corno , Sergio Matteo Savaresi

This paper describes a calibration algorithm to simultaneously calibrate a magnetometer and an accelerometer without any information besides the sensors readings. Using a linear sensor model and maximum likelihood cost, the algorithm is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-22 Conrado Silva Miranda , Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira

While automotive radar sensors are widely adopted and have been used for automatic cruise control and collision avoidance tasks, their application outside of vehicles is still limited. As they have the ability to resolve multiple targets in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Alexander Tsaregorodtsev , Michael Buchholz , Vasileios Belagiannis

With the development of autonomous driving technology, sensor calibration has become a key technology to achieve accurate perception fusion and localization. Accurate calibration of the sensors ensures that each sensor can function properly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Jixiang Li , Jiahao Pi , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li

To measure system states and local environment directly with high precision, expensive sensors are required. However, highly accurate system states and environmental perception can also be achieved using data fusion techniques and digital…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Maximilian Harr , Christoph Schaefer

In this paper, we propose a method of targetless and automatic Camera-LiDAR calibration. Our approach is an extension of hand-eye calibration framework to 2D-3D calibration. By using the sensor fusion odometry method, the scaled camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

For an autonomous vehicle, the ability to sense its surroundings and to build an overall representation of the environment by fusing different sensor data streams is fundamental. To this end, the poses of all sensors need to be accurately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Brahayam Ponton , Magda Ferri , Lars Koenig , Marcus Bartels

Advances in autonomous driving are inseparable from sensor fusion. Heterogeneous sensors are widely used for sensor fusion due to their complementary properties, with radar and camera being the most equipped sensors. Intrinsic and extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

Mobile robot positioning, mapping, and navigation systems generally employ an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to obtain the acceleration and angular velocity of the robot. However, errors in the internal and external parameters of an IMU…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Gang Peng , Zezao Lu , Zejie Tan , Dingxin He , Xinde Li

The task of camera calibration is to estimate the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of a camera model. Though there are some restricted techniques to infer the 3-D information about the scene from uncalibrated cameras, effective camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Lili Ma , YangQuan Chen , Kevin L. Moore

In this paper, we focus on motion estimation dedicated for non-holonomic ground robots, by probabilistically fusing measurements from the wheel odometer and exteroceptive sensors. For ground robots, the wheel odometer is widely used in pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Mingming Zhang , Xingxing Zuo , Yiming Chen , Yong Liu , Mingyang Li

Perception is one of the key abilities of autonomous mobile robotic systems, which often relies on fusion of heterogeneous sensors. Although this heterogeneity presents a challenge for sensor calibration, it is also the main prospect for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Juraj Peršić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović