无需特定场景,仅靠重叠激光扫描即可自动校准机载激光雷达指向角。
Scene-agnostic ALS boresight self-calibration

- 用重叠扫描点对点匹配替代传统平面约束进行校准。
- 两种方法均在4次飞行测试中成功恢复指向角误差,最低3-4条重叠条带即可。
- 适用于常规测绘任务,对惯性传感器等级要求低,适合工程部署。
机载激光雷达(ALS)指向角校准长期依赖于包含不同朝向和坡度平面的结构化场景飞行模式。该方法虽可靠,但限制了应用场景与操作灵活性。本文提出一种实用新方法,通过自动提取重叠激光条带间的点对点对应关系,取代依赖平面的约束条件,实现无场景依赖的校准。提出两种互补的估计方案:(i) 基于惯性/导航系统(INS/GNSS)轨迹的简化参数调整;(ii) 在现有因子图(动态网络)中引入原始惯性数据与GNSS信息的严格公式,将指向角作为新增参数求解。在四次实际飞行任务中,使用五种惯性系统验证,涵盖广泛飞行高度、重叠几何、地形类型与传感器等级。结果表明,传统平面法仅在特定场景有效,而本文方法可在常规测绘几何下恢复或吸收指向角影响。其中轻量级方法足以应对战术级与导航级传感器,而因子图方法在惯性误差难以观测时更具优势。证明在高质量INS/GNSS轨迹下,仅需3-4条重叠条带即可完成校准,无需特殊场景。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
ALS boresight calibration has relied for two decades on dedicated flight patterns over structured scenes containing planar surfaces of varied aspect and slope. While reliable, this approach imposes constraints on the scene content and operations, which limits its applicability to boresight recovery within routine mapping missions. We present a practical approach that substantially relaxes these requirements by replacing plane-based constraints with scene-agnostic point-to-point correspondences extracted automatically from overlapping ALS strips. Two complementary formulations are proposed to estimate boresight with laser vector observations: (i) a simpler parametric adjustment utilizing INS/GNSS trajectory; (ii) a rigorous formulation treating GNSS and raw inertial data within an existing factor-graph, i.e. a dynamic network, where boresight is added as an additional parameter. Both formulations are evaluated across four operational ALS flights equipped with five inertial systems, covering a wide range of flight altitudes, overlap geometries, terrain types and inertial sensor classes. The analysis draws a clear boundary between the legacy plane-based conditioning that falls short outside the calibration scenario and the proposed formulations, which either recover or absorb boresight effects under conventional mapping geometry. Among them, the lightweight formulation is sufficient for boresight recovery using tactical and navigation grade inertial sensors, while the general factor-graph approach is clearly superior when the inertial sensor errors are less observable within an optimal smoother. This supports the hypothesis that, for INS/GNSS trajectory of sufficient quality, the boresight calibration can be performed without particular scene prerequisites during routine mapping operations using a minimum of 3-4 overlapping strips, with either proposed formulation...
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