Reconstruction-Based Hand–Eye Calibration Using Arbitrary Objects
Shiyu Xing, Fengshui Jing, Min Tan
Abstract
This article introduces a flexible hand–eye calibration technique for a 3-D sensor from a reconstruction perspective, with no need for a specialized and accurate calibration rig. Our intention is to find the hand–eye relation that simultaneously aligns multiview point clouds of a common scene into the robot base frame, namely simultaneous calibration and reconstruction. To achieve this goal, a novel variant of iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm based on the Gauss–Newton method and Lie algebra is proposed, which iteratively transforms multiview point clouds into the robot base frame, estimates point-to-point correspondences between point clouds then refines the hand–eye relation to minimize the Euclidean distance between corresponding points. In addition to the calibration result, it returns a preliminary reconstruction as a byproduct. Cases of degeneracy and applicable conditions are given and proved. Using arbitrary daily objects with no prior information and a real robotic eye-in-hand system, we verify our method feasible and effective.