TurniFi Extrinsics

Motion Capture for Robotics

Find out where things are and how they're moving. Using numerical algorithms, TurniFi turns your cameras into precision instruments that can be used for calibration, groundtruthing, or any other application where pinpoint positioning is needed.

How it works

TurniFi measures the spatial relationship between fiducial markers and cameras. These observations are combined with physical constraints to generate position estimates for all objects in the system.

Extrinsic Calibration

For extrinsic calibration, cameras are modeled in the robot coordinate frame. Fiducial markers placed around the workspace act as calibration targets. The TurniFi tool will estimate the camera poses, robot trajectory, and external marker locations.

Motion Estimation

A robot’s motion can be estimated with the TurniFi system using on-board cameras and external targets. Markers can also be placed on the robot itself, with an external camera acting as a localization aid.

Flexible Modeling

Custom coordinate frames and kinematic constraints give the flexibility needed to model almost any robot. Robot on a turntable? Modeled. 2D plane constraints? Check. Wobbly suspension? You’re good.

The TurniFi system models constrained relationships between different coordinate frames, enabling:

• Constrained estimation of turntable rotation without encoders.
• Incorporate known pose relationships with fixed frame graph links.
• Fiducials can be constrained to the ground plane.
• Use additional markers to link as-built sensor locations to CAD reference datums.