Kalib: Easy Hand-Eye Calibration with Reference Point Tracking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10562v2
• Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:22:53 GMT
• Title: Kalib: Easy Hand-Eye Calibration with Reference Point Tracking
• Authors: Tutian Tang, Minghao Liu, Wenqiang Xu, Cewu Lu,
• Abstract summary: Kalib is an automatic hand-eye calibration method that leverages the generalizability of visual foundation models to overcome challenges.<n>During calibration, a kinematic reference point is tracked in the camera coordinate 3D coordinates in the space behind the robot.<n>Kalib's user-friendly design and minimal setup requirements make it a possible solution for continuous operation in unstructured environments.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Hand-eye calibration aims to estimate the transformation between a camera and a robot. Traditional methods rely on fiducial markers, which require considerable manual effort and precise setup. Recent advances in deep learning have introduced markerless techniques but come with more prerequisites, such as retraining networks for each robot, and accessing accurate mesh models for data generation. In this paper, we propose Kalib, an automatic and easy-to-setup hand-eye calibration method that leverages the generalizability of visual foundation models to overcome these challenges. It features only two basic prerequisites, the robot's kinematic chain and a predefined reference point on the robot. During calibration, the reference point is tracked in the camera space. Its corresponding 3D coordinates in the robot coordinate can be inferred by forward kinematics. Then, a PnP solver directly estimates the transformation between the camera and the robot without training new networks or accessing mesh models. Evaluations in simulated and real-world benchmarks show that Kalib achieves good accuracy with a lower manual workload compared with recent baseline methods. We also demonstrate its application in multiple real-world settings with various robot arms and grippers. Kalib's user-friendly design and minimal setup requirements make it a possible solution for continuous operation in unstructured environments.

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