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Sensor fusion is essential for autonomous driving and autonomous robots, and radar-camera fusion systems have gained popularity due to their complementary sensing capabilities. However, accurate calibration between these two sensors is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Lei Cheng , Siyang Cao

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

Environment perception is a key component of any autonomous system and is often based on a heterogeneous set of sensors and fusion thereof for which sensor sensor calibration plays fundamental role. It can be divided to intrinsic and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Juraj Peršić

External effects such as shocks and temperature variations affect the calibration of visual-inertial sensor systems and thus they cannot fully rely on factory calibrations. Re-calibrations performed on short user-collected datasets might…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Thomas Schneider , Mingyang Li , Cesar Cadena , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart

Extrinsic Calibration represents the cornerstone of autonomous driving. Its accuracy plays a crucial role in the perception pipeline, as any errors can have implications for the safety of the vehicle. Modern sensor systems collect different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lorenzo Gentilini , Pierpaolo Serio , Valentina Donzella , Lorenzo Pollini

Advances in autonomous driving are inseparable from sensor fusion. Heterogeneous sensors are widely used for sensor fusion due to their complementary properties, with radar and camera being the most equipped sensors. Intrinsic and extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

The integrated inertial system, typically integrating an IMU and an exteroceptive sensor such as radar, LiDAR, and camera, has been widely accepted and applied in modern robotic applications for ego-motion estimation, motion control, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shuolong Chen , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Yuxuan Zhou , Xiaoteng Yang

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

Targetless IMU-LiDAR extrinsic calibration methods are gaining significant attention as the importance of the IMU-LiDAR fusion system increases. Notably, existing calibration methods derive calibration parameters under the assumption that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 TaeYoung Kim , Gyuhyeon Pak , Euntai Kim

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

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

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

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

With the recent advances in autonomous driving and the decreasing cost of LiDARs, the use of multimodal sensor systems is on the rise. However, in order to make use of the information provided by a variety of complimentary sensors, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Quentin Herau , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Luis Roldão , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Cyrille Migniot , Pascal Vasseur , Cédric Demonceaux

Accurate sensor calibration is a prerequisite for multi-sensor perception and localization systems for autonomous vehicles. The intrinsic parameter calibration of the sensor is to obtain the mapping relationship inside the sensor, and the…

LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration is essential for multi-modal data fusion in robotic perception systems. However, existing approaches typically rely on handcrafted calibration targets (e.g., checkerboards) or specific, static scene types,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhiwei Huang , Yanwei Fu , Yi Zhou , Xieyuanli Chen , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

With the development of neural networks and the increasing popularity of automatic driving, the calibration of the LiDAR and the camera has attracted more and more attention. This calibration task is multi-modal, where the rich color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Pengjin Wei , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li , Kun Fang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

Perception is one of the key abilities of autonomous mobile robotic systems, which often relies on fusion of heterogeneous sensors. Although this heterogeneity presents a challenge for sensor calibration, it is also the main prospect for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Juraj Peršić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

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

The combination of LiDARs and cameras enables a mobile robot to perceive environments with multi-modal data, becoming a key factor in achieving robust perception. Traditional frame cameras are sensitive to changing illumination conditions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jianhao Jiao , Feiyi Chen , Hexiang Wei , Jin Wu , Ming Liu