This paper aims to calibrate the mounted parameters between the LIDAR and the motor in a low-cost 3D LIDAR device. It proposes the model of the aimed 3D LIDAR device and analyzes the influence of all mounted parameters. The study aims to find a way more accurate and simple to calibrate those mounted parameters.
This method minimizes the coplanarity and area of the plane scanned to estimate the mounted parameters. Within the method, the authors build different cost function for rotation parameters and translation parameters; thus, the parameter estimation problem of 4-degree-of-freedom (DOF) is decoupled into 2-DOF estimation problem, achieving the calibration of these two types of parameters.
This paper proposes a calibration method for accurately estimating the mounted parameters between a 2D LIDAR and rotating platform, which realizes the estimation of 2-DOF rotation parameters and 2-DOF translation parameters without additional hardware.
Unlike previous plane-based calibration techniques, the main advantage of the proposed method is that the algorithm can estimate the most and more accurate parameters with no more hardware.
