Main Street Autonomy Announces Automatic Sensor Calibration Solution for NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor
PITTSBURGH, PA – October 22, 2024 – Main Street Autonomy, LLC (MSA), a robotics software and solution provider, announces a collaboration with NVIDIA Corporation (NVIDIA) to provide automatic sensor calibration for NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor. This achievement represents a significant milestone in MSA's mission to deliver sensor calibration to robotics and autonomous vehicle companies.
The NVIDIA Isaac team has validated MSA's Calibration Anywhere software, confirming its compatibility with the NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor ecosystem as shown below. MSA is the first company providing a sensor calibration solution for NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor. Technical details are described in the article “How to Calibrate Sensors with MSA Calibration Anywhere for NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor” hosted on the NVIDIA Robotics Blog.
MSA's Calibration Anywhere software automates the cross-modal calibration process for perception sensors used in autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. Using sensor data captured in any unstructured environment, the software generates 6DoF extrinsics relative to base_link for RGB and depth cameras, lidars, radars, IMUs, and GPS/GNSS antennas. It also calculates camera intrinsics, wheel encoder intrinsics, and time offsets for all sensors. Calibration Anywhere is plug-and-play compatible with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, as well as OpenCV, ROS, and other workflows. A demonstration of Calibration Anywhere is available from the MSA website at https://mainstreetautonomy.com/demo.
“The NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics, coupled with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor's GPU-accelerated workflows, is highly performant and user-friendly, with a vibrant partner ecosystem and developer community,” said William Sitch, Chief Business Officer at MSA. “This validation will help us bring our award-winning Calibration Anywhere software to more users, simplifying the often-complicated calibration task so that engineers can focus on perception, planning, and otherwise advancing their autonomy missions.”