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| Title: | Rover mast calibration, exact camera pointing, and camara handoff for visual target tracking |
| Authors: | Kim, Won S.
Ansar, Adnan I.
Steele, Robert D. |
| Keywords: | rover mast calibration
camera pointing
camera handoff
visual target tracking
target approach
robotics |
| Issue Date: | 7-Jul-2005 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005. |
| Citation: | 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '05), Seattle, Washington, July 16, 2005. |
| Abstract: | This paper presents three technical elements that we have developed to improve the accuracy of the visual target tracking for single-sol approach-and-instrument placement in future Mars rover missions. An accurate, straightforward method of rover mast calibration is achieved by using a total station, a camera calibration target, and four prism targets mounted on the rover. The method was applied to Rocky8 rover mast calibration and yielded a 1.1-pixel rms residual error. Camera pointing requires inverse kinematic solutions for mast pan and tilt angles such that the target image appears right at the center of the camera image. Two issues were raised. Mast camera frames are in general not parallel to the masthead base frame. Further, the optical axis of the camera model in general does not pass through the center of the image. Despite these issues, we managed to derive non-iterative closed-form exact solutions, which were verified with Matlab routines. Actual camera pointing experiments aver 50 random target image paints yielded less than 1.3-pixel rms pointing error. Finally, a purely geometric method for camera handoff using stereo views of the target has been developed. Experimental test runs show less than 2.5 pixels error on high-resolution Navcam for Pancam-to-Navcam handoff, and less than 4 pixels error on lower-resolution Hazcam for Navcam-to-Hazcam handoff. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/39319 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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