3D Cameras for Mobile Robotics

Recently developed 3D time-of-flight cameras have an enormous potential for mobile robotic applications in particular for 3D mapping and 3D navigation tasks. But similar to passive visual sensors, this type of camera is very fragile to changing lighting conditions and environment dynamics, which make it not applicable for mobile robots. The video shows the performance of our solution to environment dynamics. The solution consist of calibration routines, integration time controller and an accuracy filter for the Swiss Ranger SR-2 camera on a mobile robot.