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Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2020
Applicant:

Baidu Usa Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Fan Zhu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Kecheng Xu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

BAIDU USA LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/497 (2006.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01); G01S 17/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4972 (2013.01); G01S 17/42 (2013.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
Abstract

Described herein are various embodiments for identifying miscalibrations in LiDAR sensors installed on an ADV in real time while the ADV is in motion, and notifying a user that the LiDAR sensors needs to be recalibrated. An exemplary method includes calculating an initial number of overlapping cloud points between the cloud point data from a first LiDAR sensor and a second LiDAR sensor; and replacing a set of existing calibration parameters of the second LiDAR sensor with multiple sets of recalibration parameters to calculate multiple revised numbers of overlapping cloud points between the point cloud data. A potential miscalibration can be detected in the first LiDAR sensor or the second LiDAR sensor when the initial number of overlapping cloud points is smaller than at least one revised number of overlapping cloud points. The potential miscalibration can be verified by repeating the above operations multiple times with a time of time following each repetition.


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