Calibration Anywhere software introduction
Main Street Autonomy's Calibration Anywhere software calibrates perception sensors, like lidars, radars, cameras, IMUs, and GPS units, using only sensor data captured during motion. The process is easy! Move the robot near some static structure, store the sensor data, and run the calibration. In maybe 10 minutes, you'll get extrinsics: 6-dof pose for all sensors (lidars, radars, cameras, IMUs, and GPS units), plus a base_link kinematic frame reference. Plus intrinsics: openCV-compatible lens models for cameras (including depth), rolling shutter times, wheel encoder gain, and lidar and depth intrinsics. Plus time offsets for all sensors relative to each other. The calibration is repeatible, reliable, and can happen anywhere. You don't need checkerboards, targets, or engineers involved in the calibration process. The benefits are significant: improve your sensor data quality, enable straightforward sensor fusion, and unblock your perception team. Don't spend your time wrestling with calibration, get MSA to take care of it for you.