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This file stores the calibration of the camera intrinsic and extrinsic parameters as well as the spatial and temporal calibration parameters of the IMU with respect to the cameras.
Each camera has the following parameters:
- 
camera_model
 camera projection type (pinhole / omni)
- 
intrinsics
 vector containing the intrinsic parameters for the given projection type. elements are as follows:
 pinhole: [fu fv pu pv]
 omni: [xi fu fv pu pv]
 ds: [xi alpha fu fv pu pv]
 eucm: [alpha beta fu fv pu pv]
 see Supported models for more information
 
- 
distortion_model
 lens distortion type (radtan / equidistant)
 
- 
distortion_coeffs
 parameter vector for the distortion model
 see Supported models for more information
 
- 
T_cn_cnm1
 camera extrinsic transformation, always with respect to the last camera in the chain
 (e.g. cam1: T_cn_cnm1 = T_c1_c0, takes cam0 to cam1 coordinates)
 
- 
T_cam_imu
 IMU extrinsics: transformation from IMU to camera coordinates (T_c_i)
 
- 
timeshift_cam_imu
 timeshift between camera and IMU timestamps in seconds (t_imu = t_cam + shift)
 
- 
rostopic
 topic of the camera's image stream
- 
resolution
 camera resolution [width,height]
Example chain.yaml
cam0:
  camera_model: pinhole
  intrinsics: [461.629, 460.152, 362.680, 246.049]
  distortion_model: radtan
  distortion_coeffs: [-0.27695497, 0.06712482, 0.00087538, 0.00011556]
  T_cam_imu:
  - [0.01779318, 0.99967549,-0.01822936, 0.07008565]
  - [-0.9998017, 0.01795239, 0.00860714,-0.01771023]
  - [0.00893160, 0.01807260, 0.99979678, 0.00399246]
  - [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0]
  timeshift_cam_imu: -8.121e-05
  rostopic: /cam0/image_raw
  resolution: [752, 480]
cam1:
  camera_model: omni
  intrinsics: [0.80065662, 833.006, 830.345, 373.850, 253.749]
  distortion_model: radtan
  distortion_coeffs: [-0.33518750, 0.13211436, 0.00055967, 0.00057686]
  T_cn_cnm1:
  - [ 0.99998854, 0.00216014, 0.00427195,-0.11003785]
  - [-0.00221074, 0.99992702, 0.01187697, 0.00045792]
  - [-0.00424598,-0.01188627, 0.99992034,-0.00064487]
  - [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0]
  T_cam_imu:
  - [ 0.01567142, 0.99978002,-0.01393948,-0.03997419]
  - [-0.99966203, 0.01595569, 0.02052137,-0.01735854]
  - [ 0.02073927, 0.01361317, 0.99969223, 0.00326019]
  - [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0]
  timeshift_cam_imu: -8.681e-05
  rostopic: /cam1/image_raw
  resolution: [752, 480]
IMUs are configured using a YAML file. Please refer to the example below for details:
imu.yaml
#Accelerometers
accelerometer_noise_density: 1.86e-03   #Noise density (continuous-time)
accelerometer_random_walk:   4.33e-04   #Bias random walk
#Gyroscopes
gyroscope_noise_density:     1.87e-04   #Noise density (continuous-time)
gyroscope_random_walk:       2.66e-05   #Bias random walk
rostopic:                    /imu0      #the IMU ROS topic
update_rate:                 200.0      #Hz (for discretization of the values above)
Please refer to the Calibration targets page.