Laser range finders are a vital component of high precision targeting engagements. The precise and accurate range-to-target information is an essential variable in the fire control solution of today’s sophisticated weapons. This range information is readily provided by the laser range finder, however, current fielded laser range finders are bulky, heavy, difficult to mount onto weapons, eye haz...

The Pidar provides 3 dimensional points to a client that represent a 3 dimensional environment. An infrared laser sensor provides distance data along a Z axis and angular data on an x axis. A motor rotates the laser mechanism around a Y axis; this supplies the system with the necessary data in order to create a 3D point cloud representation of an environment. The Pidar utilizes a Linux operatin...

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In this project we will discuss about methods of extracting stable features for camera and laser range finder in order to use these features in SLAM. The methods including dot-product feature extractor and line segment feature extractor for laser range finder, corner feature extractor for camera images. The robot platform we work on is the Segway

We describes theoretical and experimental results for the extrinsic calibration of sensor platform consisting of a camera and a laser range finder. The proposed technique requires the system to observe a planar pattern in several poses, and the constraints are based upon data captured simultaneously from the camera and the laser range finder. The planar pattern surface and the laser scanline on...