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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2020
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise (a) accessing a portion of a high definition (HD) map comprising a point cloud of a region through which a vehicle is driving, (b) identifying a base LIDAR from a plurality of LIDARs mounted on the vehicle, (c) for each of the LIDARs: receiving a LIDAR scan comprising a point cloud of the region, and determining a pose for the LIDAR, (d) for each LIDAR other than the base LIDAR, determining a transform for the LIDAR with respect to the base LIDAR, (e) repeating (c) to generate a plurality of samples, (f) for each of the samples, repeating (d) to determine a plurality of transforms for each LIDAR with respect to the base LIDAR, and (g) calibrating each of the LIDARs other than the base LIDAR by determining an aggregate transform for the LIDAR.