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We propose a certifiably globally optimal approach for solving the hand-eye robot-world problem supporting multiple sensors and targets at once. Further, we leverage this formulation for estimating a geo-referenced calibration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Markus Horn , Thomas Wodtko , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

Hand-eye calibration is an important task in vision-guided robotic systems and is crucial for determining the transformation matrix between the camera coordinate system and the robot end-effector. Existing methods, for multi-view robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ye Wang , Haodong Jing , Yang Liao , Yongqiang Ma , Nanning Zheng

A novel hand-eye calibration method for ground-observing mobile robots is proposed. While cameras on mobile robots are common, they are rarely used for ground-observing measurement tasks. Laser trackers are increasingly used in robotics for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jan Andre Rudolph , Dennis Haitz , Markus Ulrich

This article proposes a general optimization framework for solving hand-eye calibration problem. Unlike traditional methods, an iterative algorithm based on Lie algebra that achieves approximately global optimal solutions is developed.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yanjia Chen , Xiangfei Li , Huan Zhao , Yiyuan Hong , Guanxiao Xia , Jiexin Zhang , Han Ding

Hand-eye calibration is an important and extensively researched method for calibrating rigidly coupled sensors, solely based on estimates of their motion. Due to the geometric structure of this problem, at least two motion estimates with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Markus Horn , Thomas Wodtko , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

With 3D sensing becoming cheaper, environment-aware and visually-guided robot arms capable of safely working in collaboration with humans will become common. However, a reliable calibration is needed, both for camera internal calibration,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Justinas Miseikis , Kyrre Glette , Ole Jakob Elle , Jim Torresen

Hand-eye calibration, which consists in identifying the rigid- body transformation between a camera mounted on the robot end-effector and the end-effector itself, is a fundamental problem in robot vision. Mathematically, this problem can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Huy Nguyen , Quang-Cuong Pham

This paper investigates the direct application of standardized designs on the robot for conducting robot hand-eye calibration by employing 3D scanners with collaborative robots. The well-established geometric features of the robot flange…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xudong Han , Ning Guo , Yu Jie , He Wang , Fang Wan , Chaoyang Song

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

This paper presents MEMROC (Multi-Eye to Mobile RObot Calibration), a novel motion-based calibration method that simplifies the process of accurately calibrating multiple cameras relative to a mobile robot's reference frame. MEMROC utilizes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Davide Allegro , Matteo Terreran , Stefano Ghidoni

A common prerequisite for evaluating a visual(-inertial) odometry (VO/VIO) algorithm is to align the timestamps and the reference frame of its estimated trajectory with a reference ground-truth derived from a system of superior precision,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Zichao Shu , Lijun Li , Rui Wang , Zetao Chen

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

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

Calibrating robots into their workspaces is crucial for manipulation tasks. Existing calibration techniques often rely on sensors external to the robot (cameras, laser scanners, etc.) or specialized tools. This reliance complicates the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Podshara Chanrungmaneekul , Kejia Ren , Joshua T. Grace , Aaron M. Dollar , Kaiyu Hang

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,…

Hand-eye calibration is the problem of solving the transformation from the end-effector of a robot to the sensor attached to it. Commonly employed techniques, such as AXXB or AXZB formulations, rely on regression methods that require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yihao Liu , Jiaming Zhang , Zhangcong She , Amir Kheradmand , Mehran Armand

Camera calibration is a crucial step in photogrammetry and 3D vision applications. This paper introduces a novel camera calibration method using a designed collimator system. Our collimator system provides a reliable and controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shunkun Liang , Banglei Guan , Zhenbao Yu , Dongcai Tan , Pengju Sun , Zibin Liu , Qifeng Yu , Yang Shang

Eye-in-hand camera calibration is a fundamental and long-studied problem in robotics. We present a study on using learning-based methods for solving this problem online from a single RGB image, whilst training our models with entirely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Eugene Valassakis , Kamil Dreczkowski , Edward Johns

Accurate extrinsic sensor calibration is essential for both autonomous vehicles and robots. Traditionally this is an involved process requiring calibration targets, known fiducial markers and is generally performed in a lab. Moreover, even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Celyn Walters , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

Estimating camera intrinsics and extrinsics is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and while advances in structure-from-motion (SfM) have improved accuracy and robustness, open challenges remain. In this paper, we introduce a robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Johannes Hägerlind , Bao-Long Tran , Urs Waldmann , Per-Erik Forssén