• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 55, Issue 2, 022803 (2018)
Dongbin Han1、*, Youchun Xu1, Rendong Wang1, Yao Qi1, and Hua Li1
Author Affiliations
  • 1 Department of Military Vehicle, Military Transportation University of PLA, Tianjin 300161, China
  • 1 Postgraduate Training Brigade, Military Transportation University of PLA, Tianjin 300161, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP55.022803 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Dongbin Han, Youchun Xu, Rendong Wang, Yao Qi, Hua Li. Calibration of Three-Dimensional Lidar Extrinsic Parameters Based on Multiple-Point Clouds Matching[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2018, 55(2): 022803 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    To solve the problem that the exact position relation between three-dimensional lidar and global positioning system/inertial navigation system integrated navigation system cannot be obtained directly and the relative rotation angle between them cannot be directly measured, a method based on simultaneous matching of multiple-point clouds is proposed to calibrate the extrinsic parameters. Firstly, the lidar point clouds, which are similar in position and opposite in direction, are selected as the calibration data. Secondly, we set the parameters of the initial regional center, the initial step length and the step counts, then traverse the combination of parameters to find the optimal target function when the corresponding extrinsic parameters are updated to the optimal iterative regional center. We shorten the step length continuously, until optimal extrinsic parameter that satisfies accuracy requirement is obtained. The experiment collects two different data in different environments, and uses better and worse parameter initial iterative center and different step counts to calibrate. Results show that the proposed calibration method has a short time duration, and can get good calibration results for non-ideal initial parameters. The method is simple, and can achieve required calibration accuracy without special calibration object.
    Dongbin Han, Youchun Xu, Rendong Wang, Yao Qi, Hua Li. Calibration of Three-Dimensional Lidar Extrinsic Parameters Based on Multiple-Point Clouds Matching[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2018, 55(2): 022803
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