一种机器人手眼关系自标定方法

设计了一种基于场景中单个景物点的机器人手眼关系标定方法．精确控制机械手末端执行器做 5 次以上平移运动和2 次以上旋转运动,摄像机对场景中的单个景物点进行成像．通过景物点的视差及深度 值反映摄像机的运动,建立机械手末端执行器与摄像机两坐标系之间相对位置的约束方程组,线性求得摄像 机内参数及手眼关系．标定过程中只需提取场景中的一个景物点,无需匹配,无需正交运动,对机械手的运 动控制操作方便、算法实现简洁．模拟数据实验与真实图像数据实验结果表明该方法可行、有效．     

基于遗传算法的摄像机自标定方法

摄像机标定是计算机视觉领域的关键技术，其中的自标定是只根据图像计算摄像机的内参数，其标定过程简单，适用性强。由于传统的用于摄像机自标定的Kruppa方程不仅需要计算基础矩阵，还要计算图像的极点，而图像的极点又不是固定不变的，且会导致计算结果的不稳定，为此，针对传统摄像机自标定方法的上述不足，利用遗传算法完成了Hartley新的Kruppa方程的摄像机自标定过程，以便将这个过程完全转化为通过代价函数最小化来求得摄像机的内参数，这就排除了极点的不稳定因素。实验结果表明，该方法是简单、有效的，可以作为一种通用的标定工具。     

Camera calibration issues in robot calibration with eye-on-hand configuration

One of the possible methods for accurate, fast, low-cost and automated robot calibration is to employ a single camera rigidly mounted to the robot end-effector together with a single camera calibration board. The end-effector pose is measured by calibration of the camera at every robot measurement configuration. This paper contends that, with several modifications, Tsai's radial alignment constraint (RAC) camera calibration method can be made a fast and sufficiently accurate pose measurement technique. This paper focuses on speed, accuracy and cost enhancement of RAC-based camera calibration. A fast RAC-based algorithm is proposed, which cuts the computation time of Tsai's original algorithm by about a 5: 1 ratio while keeping its accuracy within the tolerances required for a successful robot calibration. A low-cost method for estimation of the ratio of scale factors of the camera/vision system is also proposed. This method does not require a precision vertical micrometer stage to provide non-coplanar calibration points data for camera calibration. Finally, the phenomenon of perspective projection distortion of circular camera calibration points is fully analyzed and error compensation methods are proposed.     

一种新的基于Kruppa方程的摄像机自标定方法

主要针对传统的基于Kruppa方程的摄像机自标定算法的欠鲁棒性提出了一种新的二步式标定方法．在新标定方法中，首先利用传统的LM优化算法或遗传算法求解出Kruppa方程中通常需要被消去的比例因子，然后再利用线性方法完成对摄像机的标定．大量的仿真和真实图像实验表明，该方法可以大大提高基于Kruppa方程标定算法的鲁棒性及标定精度．     

一种新型机器人自标定装置及其算法

针对传统基于几何约束的机器人自标定装置仅能对局部工作空间内的机器人位型进行标定测量的问题,提出了一种由安装于机器人末端的球心位置测量装置和可移动球杆组成的新型便携式机器人自标定装置,通过利用球面约束和距离约束,可在较大工作空间内对机器人进行标定测量,从而提高标定结果的可靠性．根据可移动球杆的单、双球布置方式,分别建立了基于向量差和距离差的2种机器人自标定模型及其算法．通过采用局部指数积公式并引入位置伴随变换矩阵,简化了2种自标定模型,从而降低了对运动学方程线性化的计算量．最后,对一种6自由度串联机器人进行了仿真实验,实验结果表明2种自标定算法均能够快速收敛,验证了2种算法的有效性和鲁棒性．     

Online robot calibration based on vision measurement

Robot calibration is a useful diagnostic method to improve positioning accuracy in robot production and maintenance. Unlike traditional calibration methods that require expensive equipment and complex steps, a vision-based online robot calibration method that only requires several reference images is presented in this paper. The method requires a camera that is rigidly attached to the robot end effector (EE), and a calibration board must be settled around the robot where the camera can see it. An efficient automatic approach to detect the corners from the images of the calibration board is proposed. The poses of the robot can be estimated from the detected corners. The kinematic parameters can be conducted automatically based on the known poses of the robot. Unlike in the existing self-calibration methods, the great advantage of this online self-calibration method is that the entire process of robot calibration is automatic and without any manual intervention, enabling the robot calibration to be completed online when the robot is working. Therefore, the proposed approach is particularly suitable for unknown environments, such as deep sea or outer space. In these high-temperature and/or high-pressure environments, the shapes of the robot links are easy to change. Thus, the robot kinematic parameters are changed by allowing the robot to grab objects with different qualities to verify the performance of the online robot calibration. Experimental studies on a GOOGOL GRB3016 robot show that the proposed method has high accuracy, convenience, and high efficiency.     

基于改进遗传算法的摄像机自标定方法

摄像机自标定技术不受标定板和相机运动轨迹的限制,其标定过程简单、适用性强。由于传统的遗传算法在摄像机自标定参数优化过程中易出现过早收敛、停滞现象和解易陷入局部最优的问题,提出一种改进的遗传算法。首先,通过结合精英保留策略和随机联赛选择算法作为初始化种群的方法、改进轮盘赌选择方法、采用自适应杂交概率和变异概率方法对遗传算法进行改进;然后,将Hartley定义的简化Kruppa方程转化为目标函数,采用改进的遗传算法搜索目标函数的最优值;最后,实验结果表明,该方法能较好地缓解过早收敛和停滞显现,提高了精度。     

基于多视图像的摄像机自标定方法

摄像机标定是三维重建时的必要步骤。传统的标定方法对设备要求高、操作繁琐,而自标定方法虽然简便,但精度不高,会严重影响三维重建的效果。因此,越来越需要一种操作简便并且精度高的自标定方法。采用SIFT特征点匹配算法,根据多视序列图像中对应点间的相互关系,利用光束法平差,提出了一种基于局部-全局混合优化的迭代优化方法。针对图像匹配量大的问题,提出了一种邻域内图像互匹配方法来降低时间代价。实验表明,本文提出的多摄像机自标定方法是一种有效的高精度方法,采用的邻域内图像互匹配技术能很好地降低图像匹配的时间消耗。根据多视图像的对应点间相互关系,充分利用局部-全局优化的思想,通过混合优化的方法得到相机参数,对比现有自标定算法,本文给出的方法有较高的精度和鲁棒性。     

一种考虑二阶径向畸变的主动视觉自标定算法

基于主动视觉的摄像机自标定是摄像机标定的一个重要分支 ,由于普通的 CCD摄像机拍摄的像片存在着各种类型的几何畸变 ,其中以径向畸变最为严重 ,因此研究考虑径向畸变的自标定技术有着重要的意义 .为了使标定结果更精确 ,提出了一种考虑二阶径向畸变的内参数自标定方法 ,并通过推导考虑二阶径向畸变的极线几何约束 ,得出了如果能控制摄像机做 4次不在同一平面上的平移运动 ,则可以标定摄像机的内参数和二阶径向畸变系数的结论 .仿真实验结果表明 ,该算法精度很高 ,且具有一定的鲁棒性 ,可用于摄像机的标定 .     

摄像机自标定算法在虚拟演播室中的应用

本文就摄像机自标定算法进行了分析,在虚拟演播环境中,提出了基于平面点的标定算法,采用自己设计的实验方法,计算出了摄像机的内参数,结果证明能满足虚拟演播室中摄像机标定的精度。     

一种基于主动视觉的摄像机内参数自定标方法

摄像机定标是计算机视觉的一项基本任务．本文提出了一种基于主动视觉的摄像机内参数自定标方法．该方法和文献［1］提出的方法相比最大的优点在于不要求摄像机在三维空间作任意方向的平移运动，只需要控制摄像机在同一平面作四组运动，其中每组包括两次相互正交的平移运动，同时适当调整摄像机平移运动的姿态，可以线性求解摄像机内参数．理论上证明了如果摄像机作三次俯仰或者作两次俯仰一次扫视来调整摄像机平移运动的姿态，则解存在而且唯一．通过稳定性分析证明前一种方法对误差很敏感，后者则是稳定的．最后给出了采用真实图像的实验结果．     

基于平面格网的非量测CCD相机自标定

传统的相机标定方法通常需要建立复杂3维标定块或高精度3维控制场,在实际应用中受到了一定的限制。本文采用平面控制格网作为标定块,根据相机的理想模型确定内方位元素,利用2维直接线性变换和共线方程分解出相机的外方位元素初值,采用改进的Hough变换算法检测标定图像中的格网直线并利用最小二乘法拟合出最佳直线,通过求直线的交点得到标定格网点的像坐标。最后利用自检校光线束法平差进行相机的精确标定。实际图像数据实验结果表明,主点和焦距的标定精度分别达到了0.2像素和0.3像素左右。可以满足高精度近景3维量测的要求。     

A vision-based fast base frame calibration method for coordinated mobile manipulators

The mobile manipulators (MMs) have been increasingly adopted for machining large and complex components. In order to ensure the machining efficiency and quality, the MMs usually need to cooperate with each other. However, due to the low motion accuracy of the mobile platform, the relative pose accuracy between the coordinated MMs are difficult to guarantee, so an effective calibration method is needed to on-line obtain the relative pose of the MMs. For this purpose, a vision-based fast base frame calibration method is proposed in this paper, which can quickly and accurately obtain the relative pose between the coordinated MMs. The method only needs to add a camera and a marker, and then a frame network of the calibration system can be generated by installing the marker at three different positions. Based on the Perspective-n-Points principle and the robot forward kinematics, the transformation matrix of the marker frame with respect to the camera frame and the robot base frame can be determined by simply obtaining the images of the marker at different positions and corresponding robot joint angles. Then, the relative pose between the base frames of coordinated MMs can be determined by the calibration equation established based on a frame closed chains. In addition, the calibration method is capable of real-time calculation by dividing the calibration process into off-line and on-line stages. Simulation and experimental results have verified the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Self-calibration of gyro using monocular SLAM for an indoor mobile robot

Rate gyros are widely used to calculate the heading angle for mobile robot localization. They are normally calibrated in the factory using an expensive rate table prior to their use. In this paper, a self-calibration method using a monocular camera without a rate table is proposed. The suggested method saves time and cost for extra calibration procedure. SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) based on visual features and odometry gives reference heading (yaw) angles. Using these, the coefficients of a scale factor function are estimated through Kalman filtering. A new undelayed feature initialization method is proposed to estimate the heading angle without any delay. Experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed method.     

基于张量投票的摄像机自标定方法研究

针对传统的基于Kruppa方程摄像机自标定算法的欠鲁棒性,首次提出将鲁棒的张量投票算法用于摄像机自标定方法中。利用基于尺度不变的SIFT算法查找并匹配出每对图像的特征点,其中待匹配图像由摄像机对同一场景从三个不同角度位置拍摄,对图像张量投票后按棒张量特征值降序排序,由此筛选得到具有鲁棒性边缘特征的前八对特征点,利用八点算法求解相应的基础矩阵和极点,根据Kruppa方程和三维重建（SFM）算法求得摄像机参数矩阵。实验结果证明,该方法具有较高标定精度,并通过加入高斯噪声的仿真实验证明该算法是一种鲁棒的摄像机自标定方法。     

Effective Self-calibration for Camera Parameters and Hand-eye Geometry Based on Two Feature Points Motions

A novel and effective self-calibration approach for robot vision is presented, which can effectively estimate both the camera intrinsic parameters and the hand-eye transformation at the same time. The proposed calibration procedure is based on two arbitrary feature points of the environment, and three pure translational motions and two rotational motions of robot endeffector are needed. New linear solution equations are deduced, and the calibration parameters are finally solved accurately and effectively. The proposed algorithm has been verified by simulated data with different noise and disturbance. Because of the need of fewer feature points and robot motions, the proposed method greatly improves the efficiency and practicality of the calibration procedure.      

An improved self-calibration approach based on adaptive genetic algorithm for position-based visual servo

An improved self-calibrating algorithm for visual servo based on adaptive genetic algorithm is proposed in this paper. Our approach introduces an extension of Mendonca-Cipolla and G. Chesi＇s self-calibration for the positionbased visual servo technique which exploits the singular value property of the essential matrix. Specifically, a suitable dynamic online cost function is generated according to the property of the three singular values. The visual servo process is carried out simultaneous to the dynamic self-calibration, and then the cost function is minimized using the adaptive genetic algorithm instead of the gradient descent method in G. Chesi＇s approach. Moreover, this method overcomes the limitation that the initial parameters must be selected close to the true value, which is not constant in many cases. It is not necessary to know exactly the camera intrinsic parameters when using our approach, instead, coarse coding bounds of the five parameters are enough for the algorithm, which can be done once and for all off-line. Besides, this algorithm does not require knowledge of the 3D model of the object. Simulation experiments are carried out and the results demonstrate that the proposed approach provides a fast convergence speed and robustness against unpredictable perturbations of camera parameters, and it is an effective and efficient visual servo algorithm.     

Self-Calibration of Stationary Cameras

A new practical method is given for the self-calibration of a camera. In this method, at least three images are taken from the same point in space with different orientations of the camera and calibration is computed from an analysis of point matches between the images. The method requires no knowledge of the orientations of the camera. Calibration is based on the image correspondences only. This method differs fundamentally from previous results by Maybank and Faugeras on self-calibration using the epipolar structure of image pairs. In the method of this paper, there is no epipolar structure since all images are taken from the same point in space, and so Maybank and Faugeras's method does not apply. Since the images are all taken from the same point in space, determination of point matches is considerably easier than for images taken with a moving camera, since problems of occlusion or change of aspect or illumination do not occur.A non-iterative calibration algorithm is given that works with any number of images. An iterative refinement method that may be used with noisy data is also described. The algorithm is implemented and validated on several sets of synthetic and real image data.     

一种新的线性摄像机自标定方法

提出了一种新的基于主动视觉系统的线性摄像机自定标方法。所谓基于主动视觉系统,是指摄像机固定在摄像机平台上以平摄像机平台的运动可以精确控制。该方法的主要特点是可以线性求解摄像机的所有5个内参数。据作者所知。文献中现有的方法仅能线性求解摄像机的4个由参数。当摄像机为完全的射影模型时,即当有畸变因子（skew factor）存在时,文献中的线性方法均不再适用。该方法的基本思想是控制摄像机做5组平面正交运动,利用图像中的极点（epipoles）信息来线性标定摄像机。同时,针对摄像机做平移运动时基本矩阵的特殊形式,该文提出了求基本矩阵（fundamental matrix)的2点算法。与8点算法相比较,2点算法大大提高了所求极点的精度和鲁棒性。另外,该文对临近奇异状态（即5组平面正交运动中,有两组或者多组运动平面平行）作了较为详尽的分析,并提出了解决临近奇异状态的策略,从而增强了该文算法的衫性。模拟图像和真实图像实验表明该文的自标定方法具有较高的鲁棒性和准确性。     

带有倾斜因子的摄像机自标定方法

摄像机自标定是三维重建技术的基本问题 ,得到许多学者的大力研究 .为了简化摄像机自标定过程 ,一般假设摄像机内参数中的倾斜因子为零 ,然后对主点和焦距进行自标定 .但在摄像机模型为完全的射影模型时 ,即当倾斜因子 (Skew Factor)值较大时 ,则使用上述假设得到的自标定参数误差较大 ,有时甚至无法得到结果 .为了对倾斜因子值较大的摄像机进行准确标定 ,提出了一种当摄像机的倾斜因子已知但不为零时的摄像机自标定方法 ,试验结果证明该方法可以得到比较准确的摄像机内参数 ,并可使得后续的三维重建得到较好的结果 .