Title
Hand–Eye Calibration Applied to Viewpoint Selection for Robotic Vision
Abstract
Viewpoint calibration is a method to manipulate hand-eye for generating calibration parameters for active viewpoint control and object grasping. In robot vision applications, accurate vision sensor calibration and robust vision-based robot control are essential for developing an intelligent and autonomous robotic system. This paper presents a new approach to hand-eye robotic calibration for vision-based object modeling and grasping. Our method provides a 1.0-pixel level of image registration accuracy when a standard Puma/Kawasaki robot generates an arbitrary viewpoint. To attain this accuracy, our new formalism of hand-eye calibration deals with a lens distortion model of a vision sensor. Our most distinguished approach of optimizing intrinsic parameters is to utilize a new parameter estimation algorithm using an extended Kalman filter. Most previous approaches did not even consider the optimal estimates of the intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters, or chose one of the estimates obtained from multiple solutions, which caused a large amount of estimation error in hand-eye calibration. We demonstrate the power of this new method for: (1) generating 3-D object models using an interactive 3-D modeling editor; (2) recognizing 3-D objects using stereovision systems; and (3) grasping 3-D objects using a manipulator. Experimental results using Puma and Kawasaki robots are shown.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/TIE.2008.921255
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Kalman filters,calibration,cameras,end effectors,image registration,image sensors,lenses,nonlinear filters,object detection,optimisation,parameter estimation,robot vision,robust control,Puma/Kawasaki robot,autonomous robotic system,end-effector,extended Kalman filter,hand-eye robotic calibration,intelligent robotic system,intrinsic parameter optimization,lens distortion camera model,object grasping,parameter estimation algorithm,pixel-level image registration,robust vision-based robot control,viewpoint calibration method,viewpoint selection,vision sensor calibration,vision-based object modeling,Hand–eye calibration,Kalman filter,hand-eye calibration,lens distortion,multiple viewpoints,robot vision
Computer vision,Object detection,Robot control,Extended Kalman filter,Robot calibration,Computer science,Object model,Control engineering,Robot end effector,Kalman filter,Artificial intelligence,Robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
10
0278-0046
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
30
1.35
33
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yuichi Motai123024.68
Akio Kosaka243946.88