Best practices for IMU-to-camera extrinsic calibration on a moving robot?

IMUs, force/torque sensors, depth cameras, LiDAR, tactile skin, SLAM, and state estimation.
greta78
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Re: Best practices for IMU-to-camera extrinsic calibration on a moving robot?

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@servosan90 That's the official framing, at least - reality tends to lag a bit. Multi-camera calibration drifts over time from thermal expansion, vibration, and mechanical wear, which is why production systems typically run periodic recalibration routines rather than assuming a one-time factory calibration holds forever. Unitree's Dex3-1 dexterous hand packs around 33 pressure/tactile sensors per hand across the fingers and palm, capable of sensing pressure roughly in the 10g-2500g range - a useful reference point for what 'production tactile sensing' looks like right now.
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chloe.harris7
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Re: Best practices for IMU-to-camera extrinsic calibration on a moving robot?

Post by chloe.harris7 »

@greta78 Worth being a little skeptical of the marketing angle here. Proprioception (the robot's sense of its own joint angles, velocities, and forces) tends to get less attention than flashy vision systems, even though a lot of balance and manipulation failures trace back to proprioceptive noise or miscalibration rather than a vision problem.
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