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The six cameras are mounted on a specially designed hexagonal plate to capture omnidirectional images and the LiDAR sensor is mounted on the top of the plates to capture 3D points in 360 degrees. Considering each camera\u2013LiDAR combination as an independent multi-sensor unit, the rotation and translation between the two sensor coordinates are calibrated. The 2D chessboard corners in the camera image are reprojected into 3D space to fit to a 3D plane with respect to the camera coordinate system. The corresponding 3D point data that scan the chessboard are used to fit to another 3D plane with respect to the LiDAR coordinate system. The rotation matrix is calculated by aligning normal vectors of the corresponding planes. In addition, an arbitrary point on the 3D camera plane is projected to a 3D point on the LiDAR plane, and the distance between the two points are iteratively minimized to estimate the translation matrix. At least three or more planes are used to find accurate external parameters between the coordinate systems. Finally, the estimated transformation is refined using the distance between all chessboard 3D points and the LiDAR plane. 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