Modified artificial potential field method for online path planning applications

F Bounini, D Gingras, H Pollart… - 2017 IEEE Intelligent …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a modified potential field method for mobile robots and intelligent
vehicles local navigation. The approach overcomes the well-known artificial potential field …

Calibration between color camera and 3D LIDAR instruments with a polygonal planar board

Y Park, S Yun, CS Won, K Cho, K Um, S Sim - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
Calibration between color camera and 3D Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) equipment
is an essential process for data fusion. The goal of this paper is to improve the calibration …

Automatic targetless extrinsic calibration of a 3d lidar and camera by maximizing mutual information

G Pandey, J McBride, S Savarese… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2012 - ojs.aaai.org
This paper reports on a mutual information (MI) based algorithm for automatic extrinsic
calibration of a 3D laser scanner and optical camera system. By using MI as the registration …

Artificial intelligence techniques in smart cities surveillance using UAVs: A survey

N Thakur, P Nagrath, R Jain, D Saini, N Sharma… - … Intelligence and Data …, 2021 - Springer
The security and urbanization challenge is expected to rise to 90% by 2050, and to leverage
existing resources, technology is the solitary means to cope with this anticipated raise in …

Extrinsic calibration methods for laser range finder and camera: A systematic review

A Khurana, KS Nagla - Mapan, 2021 - Springer
Fusion of laser range finder (LRF) and camera is widely used in the field of intelligent mobile
robots for performing various tasks, such as autonomous navigation, 2D or 3D mapping …

A minimal solution for the extrinsic calibration of a camera and a laser-rangefinder

F Vasconcelos, JP Barreto… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new algorithm for the extrinsic calibration of a perspective camera and
an invisible 2D laser-rangefinder (LRF). The calibration is achieved by freely moving a …

3D LIDAR-camera extrinsic calibration using an arbitrary trihedron

X Gong, Y Lin, J Liu - Sensors, 2013 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a novel way to address the extrinsic calibration problem for a system
composed of a 3D LIDAR and a camera. The relative transformation between the two …

Graph-based segmentation for colored 3D laser point clouds

J Strom, A Richardson, E Olson - 2010 IEEE/RSJ international …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an efficient graph-theoretic algorithm for segmenting a colored laser point cloud
derived from a laser scanner and camera. Segmentation of raw sensor data is a crucial first …

Simultaneous calibration of odometry and sensor parameters for mobile robots

A Censi, A Franchi, L Marchionni… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Consider a differential-drive mobile robot equipped with an on-board exteroceptive sensor
that can estimate its own motion, eg, a range-finder. Calibration of this robot involves …

Extrinsic calibration of a 3d laser scanner and an omnidirectional camera

G Pandey, J McBride, S Savarese, R Eustice - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2010 - Elsevier
We propose an approach for external calibration of a 3D laser scanner with an
omnidirectional camera system. The utility of an accurate calibration is that it allows for …