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However, the odometric and head-eye parameters are typically estimated separately, which is an inconvenience and requires longer calibration time. Even though several researchers have proposed simultaneous calibration methods that obtain both odometric and head-eye parameters simultaneously to reduce the calibration time, they are only applicable to a mobile robot with a fixed camera mounted, not for mobile robots equipped with a pan-tilt motorized camera systems, which is a very common configuration and widely used for wide view. Previous approaches could not provide the z-axis translation parameter between head-eye coordinate systems on mobile robots equipped with a pan-tilt camera. In this paper, we present a full simultaneous mobile robot calibration of head\u2013eye and odometric parameters, which is appropriate for a mobile robot equipped with a camera mounted on the pan-tilt motorized device. After a set of visual features obtained from a chessboard or natural scene and the odometry measurements are synchronized and received, both odometric and head-eye parameters are iteratively adjusted until convergence prior to using a nonlinear optimization method for more accuracy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19163623","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,21]],"date-time":"2019-08-21T11:19:06Z","timestamp":1566386346000},"page":"3623","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Simultaneous Calibration of Odometry and Head-Eye Parameters for Mobile Robots with a Pan-Tilt Camera"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Nachaya","family":"Chindakham","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering; Kwangwoon University, Kwangwoon-ro 1-gil 60, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01890, Korea"}]},{"given":"Young-Yong","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research and Development Department; Thinkware Visual Technology, 240 Pangyoyeok-ro, Bundang-gu, Gyeonggi-do, Seongnam-si 463-400, Korea"}]},{"given":"Alongkorn","family":"Pirayawaraporn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering; Kwangwoon University, Kwangwoon-ro 1-gil 60, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01890, Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3787-5583","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mun-Ho","family":"Jeong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering; Kwangwoon University, Kwangwoon-ro 1-gil 60, Nowon-gu, Seoul 01890, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"994","DOI":"10.1109\/TRO.2005.851382","article-title":"A calibration method for odometry of mobile robots based on the least-squares technique: Theory and experimental validation","volume":"21","author":"Antonelli","year":"2005","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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