arXiv:2503.17002cs.ROcs.AI2025-03

无需标靶,通过柱面占据一致性实现激光雷达与雷达的6自由度自动标定。

Targetless 6DoF Calibration of LiDAR and 2D Scanning Radar Based on Cylindrical Occupancy

  • 利用柱面空间占据一致性建立点云与雷达扫描的对应关系。
  • 在真实户外数据集上误差低于0.5°和10cm,精度优于现有方法。
  • 适合自动驾驶多传感器系统长期运行中的自校准需求。

由于具备可靠且全天候的远距离感知能力,激光雷达(LiDAR)与雷达(Radar)融合已广泛应用于自动驾驶系统的鲁棒感知。实际运行中,依赖人工标定的外参可能因振动发生漂移。为此,本文提出一种新颖的无标靶标定方法——LiRaCo,用于激光雷达与雷达之间的6自由度外参标定。尽管两类传感器均可获取几何信息,但在缺乏显式人工标记的情况下,建立多模态数据间的几何对应关系极具挑战,主要源于扫描雷达的低垂直分辨率。为实现无标靶标定,LiRaCo在共用的柱面表示下,利用激光雷达点云与雷达扫描之间的空间占据一致性,考虑到两类传感器随距离增加的数据稀疏性。具体而言,将有效雷达扫描像素扩展为3D占据网格,以空间一致性约束激光雷达点云,进而基于3D网格与点云的空间重叠构建包含外参的代价函数,并通过优化该函数求解外参。在两个不同激光雷达配置的真实室外数据集上进行的定量与定性实验验证了该方法的可行性与高精度。源代码将公开发布。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Owing to the capability for reliable and all-weather long-range sensing, the fusion of LiDAR and Radar has been widely applied to autonomous vehicles for robust perception. In practical operation, well manually calibrated extrinsic parameters, which are crucial for the fusion of multi-modal sensors, may drift due to the vibration. To address this issue, we present a novel targetless calibration approach, termed LiRaCo, for the extrinsic 6DoF calibration of LiDAR and Radar sensors. Although both types of sensors can obtain geometric information, bridging the geometric correspondences between multi-modal data without any clues of explicit artificial markers is nontrivial, mainly due to the low vertical resolution of scanning Radar. To achieve the targetless calibration, LiRaCo leverages a spatial occupancy consistency between LiDAR point clouds and Radar scans in a common cylindrical representation, considering the increasing data sparsity with distance for both sensors. Specifically, LiRaCo expands the valid Radar scanned pixels into 3D occupancy grids to constrain LiDAR point clouds based on spatial consistency. Consequently, a cost function involving extrinsic calibration parameters is formulated based on the spatial overlap of 3D grids and LiDAR points. Extrinsic parameters are finally estimated by optimizing the cost function. Comprehensive quantitative and qualitative experiments on two real outdoor datasets with different LiDAR sensors demonstrate the feasibility and accuracy of the proposed method. The source code will be publicly available.

传感器融合6DoF标定无标靶自动驾驶

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