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In this session Niharika Arora from gives an overview of how Fetch Robotics calibrates their robots using robot_calibration
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Abstract
Calibration is an essential prerequisite for nearly any robot. We have created a fast, accurate and robotagnostic calibration system, which calibrates robot geometry in addition to the typical camera intrinsics and/or extrinsics. The system can be used with a variety of feature detectors to update the cost function and uses the CERES optimizer for the convex optimization. The system then creates an updated URDF containing the calibrated parameters. This talk will cover the details of the robotagnostic robot_calibration package and describe its use in the fetch_calibration package which can calibrate dozens of parameters on a Fetch robot in as little as 3 minutes.
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