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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

We present a Gaussian Splatting-based framework for hand-eye calibration of the da Vinci surgical robot. In a vision-guided robotic system, accurate estimation of the rigid transformation between the robot base and the camera frame is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zijian Wu , Shuojue Yang , Yu Chung Lee , Eitan Prisman , Yueming Jin , Septimiu E. Salcudean

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 of laser profile sensors is the process of extracting the homogeneous transformation between the laser profile sensor frame and the end-effector frame of a robot in order to express the data extracted by the sensor in…

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

Multi-perspective cameras are quickly gaining importance in many applications such as smart vehicles and virtual or augmented reality. However, a large system size or absence of overlap in neighbouring fields-of-view often complicate their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Yifu Wang , Wenqing Jiang , Kun Huang , Sören Schwertfeger , Laurent Kneip

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

Robots often rely on RGB images for tasks like manipulation and navigation. However, reliable interaction typically requires a 3D scene representation that is metric-scaled and aligned with the robot reference frame. This depends on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Davide Allegro , Matteo Terreran , Stefano Ghidoni

Precision robotic manipulation tasks (insertion, screwing, precisely pick, precisely place) are required in many scenarios. Previous methods achieved good performance on such manipulation tasks. However, such methods typically require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Yiwen Chen , Sheng Guo , Zedong Zhang , Lei Zhou , Xian Yao Ng , Marcelo H. Ang

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

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

Camera calibration is an essential prerequisite for event-based vision applications. Current event camera calibration methods typically involve using flashing patterns, reconstructing intensity images, and utilizing the features extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zibin Liu , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Zhenbao Yu , Yifei Bian , Qifeng Yu

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

Image editing and compositing have become ubiquitous in entertainment, from digital art to AR and VR experiences. To produce beautiful composites, the camera needs to be geometrically calibrated, which can be tedious and requires a physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Dominique Piché-Meunier , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Jean-Charles Bazin , François Rameau , Jean-François Lalonde

Accurate transformation estimation between camera space and robot space is essential. Traditional methods using markers for hand-eye calibration require offline image collection, limiting their suitability for online self-calibration.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Tianshu Wu , Jiyao Zhang , Shiqian Liang , Zhengxiao Han , Hao Dong

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

Existing calibration methods occasionally fail for large field-of-view cameras due to the non-linearity of the underlying problem and the lack of good initial values for all parameters of the used camera model. This might occur because a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yaroslava Lochman , Kostiantyn Liepieshov , Jianhui Chen , Michal Perdoch , Christopher Zach , James Pritts

RegHEC is a registration-based hand-eye calibration technique with no need for accurate calibration rig but arbitrary available objects, applicable for both eye-in-hand and eye-to-hand cases. It tries to find the hand-eye relation which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Shiyu Xing , Fengshui Jing , Min Tan

The traditional kinematic calibration method for manipulators requires precise three-dimensional measuring instruments to measure the end pose, which is not only expensive due to the high cost of the measuring instruments but also not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Peng Gang , Wang Zhihao , Yang Jin , Li Xinde