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In the context of robotics, accurate ground-truth positioning is the cornerstone for the development of mapping and localization algorithms. In outdoor environments and over long distances, total stations provide accurate and precise…

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

Precise sensor calibration is critical for autonomous vehicles as a prerequisite for perception algorithms to function properly. Rotation error of one degree can translate to position error of meters in target object detection at large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhongyuan Li , Honggang Gou , Ping Li , Jiaotong Guo , Mao Ye

Recently, multi-node inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based odometry for legged robots has gained attention due to its cost-effectiveness, power efficiency, and high accuracy. However, the spatial and temporal misalignment between foot-end…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chaoran Xiong , Fangyu Jiang , Kehui Ma , Zhen Sun , Zeyu Zhang , Ling Pei

Extrinsic calibration is essential for multi-sensor fusion, existing methods rely on structured targets or fully-excited data, limiting real-world applicability. Online calibration further suffers from weak excitation, leading to unreliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Baorun Li , Chengrui Zhu , Siyi Du , Bingran Chen , Jie Ren , Wenfei Wang , Yong Liu , Jiajun Lv

Aided inertial navigation system (INS), typically consisting of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and an exteroceptive sensor, has been widely accepted as a feasible solution for navigation. Compared with vision-aided and LiDAR-aided INS,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Shuolong Chen , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Yuxuan Zhou , Shiwen Wang

Owing to the capability for reliable and all-weather long-range sensing, the fusion of LiDAR and Radar has been widely applied to autonomous vehicles for robust perception. In practical operation, well manually calibrated extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Weimin Wang , Yu Du , Ting Yang , Yu Liu

We present a novel target-based lidar-camera extrinsic calibration methodology that can be used for non-overlapping field of view (FOV) sensors. Contrary to previous work, our methodology overcomes the non-overlapping FOV challenge using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Nicholas Charron , Huaiyuan Weng , Steven L. Waslander , Sriram Narasimhan

In this paper, we present TEScalib, a novel extrinsic self-calibration approach of LiDAR and stereo camera using the geometric and photometric information of surrounding environments without any calibration targets for automated driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Haohao Hu , Fengze Han , Frank Bieder , Jan-Hendrik Pauls , Christoph Stiller

Mobile robotic applications need precise information about the geometric position of the individual sensors on the platform. This information is given by the extrinsic calibration parameters which define how the sensor is rotated and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Philipp Glira , Christoph Weidinger , Johann Weichselbaum

Sensor fusion is vital for the safe and robust operation of autonomous vehicles. Accurate extrinsic sensor to sensor calibration is necessary to accurately fuse multiple sensor's data in a common spatial reference frame. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Jack Borer , Jeremy Tschirner , Florian Ölsner , Stefan Milz

This paper proposes FAST-Calib, a fast and user-friendly LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration tool based on a custom-made 3D target. FAST-Calib supports both mechanical and solid-state LiDARs by leveraging an efficient and reliable edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chunran Zheng , Fu Zhang

Accurate and reliable sensor calibration is critical for fusing LiDAR and inertial measurements in autonomous driving. This paper proposes a novel three-stage extrinsic calibration method between LiDAR and GNSS/INS for autonomous driving.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Guohang Yan , Jiahao Pi , Chengjie Wang , Xinyu Cai , Yikang Li

Modern autonomous systems typically use several sensors for perception. For best performance, accurate and reliable extrinsic calibration is necessary. In this research, we propose a reliable technique for the extrinsic calibration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Bengt Boberg , Maurice Fallon , Saikat Chatterjee

Sensor setups of robotic platforms commonly include both camera and LiDAR as they provide complementary information. However, fusing these two modalities typically requires a highly accurate calibration between them. In this paper, we…

In this paper, we present a user-friendly LiDAR-camera calibration toolkit that is compatible with various LiDAR and camera sensors and requires only a single pair of laser points and a camera image in targetless environments. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Haoxin Zhang , Shuaixin Li , Xiaozhou Zhu , Hongbo Chen , Wen Yao

Sensor-based environmental perception is a crucial step for autonomous driving systems, for which an accurate calibration between multiple sensors plays a critical role. For the calibration of LiDAR and camera, the existing method is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Guohang Yan , Feiyu He , Chunlei Shi , Xinyu Cai , Yikang Li

This paper presents MFCalib, an innovative extrinsic calibration technique for LiDAR and RGB camera that operates automatically in targetless environments with a single data capture. At the heart of this method is using a rich set of edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tianyong Ye , Wei Xu , Chunran Zheng , Yukang Cui

Camera-to-robot (also known as eye-to-hand) calibration is a critical component of vision-based robot manipulation. Traditional marker-based methods often require human intervention for system setup. Furthermore, existing autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Podshara Chanrungmaneekul , Yiting Chen , Joshua T. Grace , Aaron M. Dollar , Kaiyu Hang

Today's autonomous vehicles rely on a multitude of sensors to perceive their environment. To improve the perception or create redundancy, the sensor's alignment relative to each other must be known. With Multi-LiCa, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Dominik Kulmer , Ilir Tahiraj , Andrii Chumak , Markus Lienkamp