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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…

Hand-eye calibration is the problem of estimating the spatial transformation between a reference frame, usually the base of a robot arm or its gripper, and the reference frame of one or multiple cameras. Generally, this calibration is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Daniele Evangelista , Emilio Olivastri , Davide Allegro , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Camera-to-robot calibration is crucial for vision-based robot control and requires effort to make it accurate. Recent advancements in markerless pose estimation methods have eliminated the need for time-consuming physical setups for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jingpei Lu , Zekai Liang , Tristin Xie , Florian Ritcher , Shan Lin , Sainan Liu , Michael C. Yip

We demonstrated a CMOS imaging system that adapts each pixel's exposure and sampling rate to capture high dynamic range (HDR) videos. The system consist of a custom designed image sensor with pixel-wise exposure configurability and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Jie , Zhang , Jonathan P. Newman , Xiao Wang , Chetan Singh Thakur , John Rattray , Ralph Etienne-Cummings , Matthew A. Wilson

Inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based 3-DoF angle estimation methods for lower limb joints have been studied for decades, however the calibration motions and/or careful sensor placement are still necessary due to challenges of real-time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Chunzhi Yi , Feng Jiang , Zhiyuan Chen , Baichun Wei , Hao Guo , Xunfeng Yin , Fangzhuo Li , Chifu Yang

Multi-agent systems, e.g., automobiles and UAVs (Unmanned Ariel Vehicles), rely on the precision of onboard sensors to accurately perceive their environment, which in turn depends on the precision of onboard sensors and reliable in-field…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Bichi Zhang , Holger Caesar , Raj Thilak Rajan

\textbf{Purpose:} C-arm fluoroscopy's 3D reconstruction relies on accurate intrinsic calibration, which is often challenging in clinical practice. This study ensures high-precision reconstruction accuracy by re-optimizing the extrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lin Li , Benjamin Aubert , Paul Kemper , Aric Plumley

In mobile robotics, scan matching of point clouds using Iterative Closest Point (ICP) allows estimating sensor displacements. It may prove important to assess the associated uncertainty about the obtained rigid transformation, especially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Martin Brossard , Silvere Bonnabel , Axel Barrau

The calibration of sensors comprising inertial measurement units is crucial for reliable and accurate navigation. Such calibration is usually performed with specialized expensive rotary tables or requires sophisticated signal processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Marek W. Rupniewski

Robust and accurate pose estimation of a robotic platform, so-called sensor-based odometry, is an essential part of many robotic applications. While many sensor odometry systems made progress by adding more complexity to the ego-motion…

In robotics, motion capture systems have been widely used to measure the accuracy of localization algorithms. Moreover, this infrastructure can also be used for other computer vision tasks, such as the evaluation of Visual (-Inertial) SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Junlin Song , Antoine Richard , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

Demonstrated for a digital image sensor based camera is a calibration target optimized method for finding the Camera Response Function (CRF). The proposed method uses localized known target zone pixel outputs spatial averaging and histogram…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Nabeel A. Riza , Nazim Ashraf

Augmented reality has the potential to improve operating room workflow by allowing physicians to "see" inside a patient through the projection of imaging directly onto the surgical field. For this to be useful the acquired imaging must be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Andong Cao , Ali Dhanaliwala , Jianbo Shi , Terence Gade , Brian Park

When inverse kinematics (IK) is adopted to control robotic arms in manipulation tasks, there is often a discrepancy between the end effector (EE) position of the robot model in the simulator and the physical EE in reality. In most robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Juraj Gavura , Michal Vavrecka , Igor Farkas , Connor Gade

Precise LiDAR-camera calibration is crucial for integrating these two sensors into robotic systems to achieve robust perception. In applications like autonomous driving, online targetless calibration enables a prompt sensor misalignment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu Han , Xubo Zhu , Ji Wu , Ximeng Cai , Wen Yang , Huai Yu , Gui-Song Xia

In the literature, points and conics have been major features for camera geometric calibration. Although conics are more informative features than points, the loss of the conic property under distortion has critically limited the utility of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Chaehyeon Song , Jaeho Shin , Myung-Hwan Jeon , Jongwoo Lim , Ayoung Kim

In this paper, we propose an efficient continuous-time LiDAR-Inertial-Camera Odometry, utilizing non-uniform B-splines to tightly couple measurements from the LiDAR, IMU, and camera. In contrast to uniform B-spline-based continuous-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiaolei Lang , Chao Chen , Kai Tang , Yukai Ma , Jiajun Lv , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

We study an auto-calibration problem in which a transform-sparse signal is acquired via compressive sensing by multiple sensors in parallel, but with unknown calibration parameters of the sensors. This inverse problem has an important…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Yuan Ni , Thomas Strohmer

The inaccessibility of user-perceived reality remains an open issue in pursuing the accurate calibration of optical see-through (OST) head-mounted displays (HMDs). Manual user alignment is usually required to collect a set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xue Hu , Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena , Fabrizio Cutolo

Visual-inertial sensors have a wide range of applications in robotics. However, good performance often requires different sophisticated motion routines to accurately calibrate camera intrinsics and inter-sensor extrinsics. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yunke Ao , Le Chen , Florian Tschopp , Michel Breyer , Andrei Cramariuc , Roland Siegwart