TY - JOUR AB - Purpose This paper aims to calibrate the mounted parameters between the LIDAR and the motor in a low-cost 3D LIDAR device. It proposes the model of the aimed 3D LIDAR device and analyzes the influence of all mounted parameters. The study aims to find a way more accurate and simple to calibrate those mounted parameters.Design/methodology/approach This method minimizes the coplanarity and area of the plane scanned to estimate the mounted parameters. Within the method, the authors build different cost function for rotation parameters and translation parameters; thus, the parameter estimation problem of 4-degree-of-freedom (DOF) is decoupled into 2-DOF estimation problem, achieving the calibration of these two types of parameters.Findings This paper proposes a calibration method for accurately estimating the mounted parameters between a 2D LIDAR and rotating platform, which realizes the estimation of 2-DOF rotation parameters and 2-DOF translation parameters without additional hardware.Originality/value Unlike previous plane-based calibration techniques, the main advantage of the proposed method is that the algorithm can estimate the most and more accurate parameters with no more hardware. VL - 39 IS - 2 SN - 0260-2288 DO - 10.1108/SR-11-2017-0237 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/SR-11-2017-0237 AU - Gao Zhe AU - Huang Jun AU - Yang Xiaofei AU - An Ping PY - 2018 Y1 - 2018/01/01 TI - Calibration of rotating 2D LIDAR based on simple plane measurement T2 - Sensor Review PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 190 EP - 198 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -