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Main Street Autonomy simplifies sensor calibration

Organization: Main Street Autonomy
Country: USA
Website: mainstreetautonomy.com
Year Founded: 2019
Number of Employees: 1-10
Innovation Class: Technology, Product & Services
Innovation Subclass: Technology & Product Introduction

Description:
2023 RBR50 LogoMain Street Autonomy’s Calibration Anywhere software can calibrate sensor intrinsics, extrinsics and time offsets, as well as provide a motion compensation mechanism, for slow-sampling sensors. The software doesn’t require a structured environment to calibrate sensors.

To calibrate sensors with the software, users only need around thirty seconds of data from various sensors on a mobile robot exhibiting some movement. Main Street Autonomy supports almost any combination of sensors, including cameras, lidars, radars, IMU, wheel encoders, and GPS/GNSS.

Analysis:
Whether it be an autonomous vehicle or an autonomous mobile robot, robots need sensors to know how to navigate the world. Calibrating those sensors is a necessary part of deployment that can sometimes be timely and difficult, requiring checkerboards, fiducials, and targets in specific locations manned by technicians or engineers.

Instead, Calibration Anywhere allows users to calibrate sensors in just minutes, allowing customers to calibrate more frequently service robots in the field without an expensive return-to-HQ trip, and eliminate engineers or technicians from the calibration process, allowing anyone to calibrate robot sensors. The software’s time offset calibration also eliminates the need for expensive time synchronization hardware. Overall, Main Street Autonomy’s Calibration Anywhere allows for faster, cheaper, and easier sensor calibration. – Brianna Wessling

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