Lost in translation (and rotation): Rapid extrinsic calibration for 2D and 3D LIDARs

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3096-3102

  Maddern, Will ^a   Harrison, Alastair ^b   Newman, Paul ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; ENTROPY; OPTICAL RADAR;

APPROXIMATE METHODS; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; EXTRINSIC CALIBRATION; QUADRATIC ENTROPY; QUALITY METRICES; ROBUST CALIBRATION; SPEED IMPROVEMENT;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84864490166     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224607     Document Type: Conference Paper

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