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Sensor calibration, which can be intrinsic or extrinsic, is an essential step to achieve the measurement accuracy required for modern perception and navigation systems deployed on autonomous robots. To date, intrinsic calibration models for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Chenxi Feng , Madhav Achar , Maani Ghaffari , Jessy W. Grizzle

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

Multiple lidars are prevalently used on mobile vehicles for rendering a broad view to enhance the performance of localization and perception systems. However, precise calibration of multiple lidars is challenging since the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jianhao Jiao , Qinghai Liao , Yilong Zhu , Tianyu Liu , Yang Yu , Rui Fan , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

We demonstrate a multi-lidar calibration framework for large mobile platforms that jointly calibrate the extrinsic parameters of non-overlapping Field-of-View (FoV) lidar sensors, without the need for any external calibration aid. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Navid Mahabadi , Addi Djikic , Cesar Nassir , Saikat Chatterjee , Maurice Fallon

In this paper we perform an experimental comparison of three different target based 3D-LIDAR camera calibration algorithms. We briefly elucidate the mathematical background behind each method and provide insights into practical aspects like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Subodh Mishra , Philip R. Osteen , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

Calibrating the extrinsic parameters of sensory devices is crucial for fusing multi-modal data. Recently, event cameras have emerged as a promising type of neuromorphic sensors, with many potential applications in fields such as mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wanli Xing , Shijie Lin , Lei Yang , Jia Pan

Determining the extrinsic parameter between multiple LiDARs and cameras is essential for autonomous robots, especially for solid-state LiDARs, where each LiDAR unit has a very small Field-of-View (FoV), and multiple units are often used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xiyuan Liu , Chongjian Yuan , Fu Zhang

Camera-LiDAR extrinsic calibration is a critical task for multi-sensor fusion in autonomous systems, such as self-driving vehicles and mobile robots. Traditional techniques often require manual intervention or specific environments, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Mathieu Cocheteux , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

Conventional single LiDAR systems are inherently constrained by their limited field of view (FoV), leading to blind spots and incomplete environmental awareness, particularly on robotic platforms with strict payload limitations. Integrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jianping Li , Zhongyuan Liu , Xinhang Xu , Jinxin Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Fang Xu , Lihua Xie

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

Accurate calibration of sensor extrinsic parameters for ground robotic systems (i.e., relative poses) is crucial for ensuring spatial alignment and achieving high-performance perception. However, existing calibration methods typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jiang Wang , Yaozhong Kang , Linya Fu , Kazuhiro Nakadai , He Kong

Accurate extrinsic calibration between LiDAR and camera sensors is important for reliable perception in autonomous systems. In this paper, we present a novel multi-objective optimization framework that jointly minimizes the geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Venkat Karramreddy , Rangarajan Ramanujam

Reliable operation in inclement weather is essential to the deployment of safe autonomous vehicles (AVs). Robustness and reliability can be achieved by fusing data from the standard AV sensor suite (i.e., lidars, cameras) with weather…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Emmett Wise , Juraj Peršić , Christopher Grebe , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

Autonomous systems often employ multiple LiDARs to leverage the integrated advantages, enhancing perception and robustness. The most critical prerequisite under this setting is the estimating the extrinsic between each LiDAR, i.e.,…

We propose an algorithm for automatic, targetless, extrinsic calibration of a LiDAR and camera system using semantic information. We achieve this goal by maximizing mutual information (MI) of semantic information between sensors, leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Peng Jiang , Philip Osteen , Srikanth Saripalli

With the advent of autonomous vehicles, LiDAR and cameras have become an indispensable combination of sensors. They both provide rich and complementary data which can be used by various algorithms and machine learning to sense and make…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Ankit Dhall , Kunal Chelani , Vishnu Radhakrishnan , K. M. Krishna

Calibration of multi-camera systems, i.e. determining the relative poses between the cameras, is a prerequisite for many tasks in computer vision and robotics. Camera calibration is typically achieved using offline methods that use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Bastian Pätzold , Simon Bultmann , Sven Behnke

Visual-inertial systems have been widely studied and applied in the last two decades (from the early 2000s to the present), mainly due to their low cost and power consumption, small footprint, and high availability. Such a trend…

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

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

We present a novel method for extrinsically calibrating a camera and a 2D Laser Rangefinder (LRF) whose beams are invisible from the camera image. We show that point-to-plane constraints from a single observation of a V-shaped calibration…

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