Internal Calibration of a Camera and An Inertial Measurement Unit

Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of internal calibration of a camera and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). The internal calibration of a camera and an IMU requires the determination of the relative orientation and displacement between the camera and the IMU. Although the problem of orientation estimation is well studied, and there exists simple algorithms for it, current displacement estimation techniques require very special data collection setups or particular sensor movements. We propose a novel method for estimating the displacement between the camera and an IMU. Our method has a very simple data collection step and involves the solution of linear equations only. Experimental results with real data show the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.