Calibration of Planar Reflectors Reshaping LiDAR’s Field of View

This paper describes the calibration method for calculating parameters (position and orientation) of planar reflectors reshaping LiDAR’s (light detection and ranging) field of view. The calibration method is based on the reflection equation used in the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) optimization. A n...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2021-09, Vol.21 (19), p.6501
Main Authors: Pełka, Michał, Będkowski, Janusz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CAD
Calibration
Cameras
Computer aided design
Cultural heritage
Global positioning systems
GPS
ICP
LiDAR
Localization
mapping
Mirrors
Polymethyl methacrylate
reshape field of view
Robotics
Robots
Sensors
Software
solid state LiDAR
Source code
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Summary:This paper describes the calibration method for calculating parameters (position and orientation) of planar reflectors reshaping LiDAR’s (light detection and ranging) field of view. The calibration method is based on the reflection equation used in the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) optimization. A novel calibration process as the multi-view data registration scheme is proposed; therefore, the poses of the measurement instrument and parameters of planar reflectors are calculated simultaneously. The final metric measurement is more accurate compared with parameters retrieved from the mechanical design. Therefore, it is evident that the calibration process is required for affordable solutions where the mechanical design can differ from the inaccurate assembly. It is shown that the accuracy is less than 20 cm for almost all measurements preserving long-range capabilities. The experiment is performed based on Livox Mid-40 LiDAR augmented with six planar reflectors. The ground-truth data were collected using Z + F IMAGER 5010 3D Terrestrial Laser Scanner. The calibration method is independent of mechanical design and does not require any fiducial markers on the mirrors. This work fulfils the gap between rotating and Solid-State LiDARs since the field of view can be reshaped by planar reflectors, and the proposed method can preserve the metric accuracy. Thus, such discussion concludes the findings. We prepared an open-source project and provided all the necessary data for reproducing the experiments. That includes: Complete open-source code, the mechanical design of reflector assembly and the dataset which was used in this paper.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s21196501