AI RESEARCH
Mind the Hitch: Dynamic Calibration and Articulated Perception for Autonomous Trucks
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2603.23711v1 Announce Type: new Autonomous trucking poses unique challenges due to articulated tractor-trailer geometry, and time-varying sensor poses caused by the fifth-wheel joint and trailer flex. Existing perception and calibration methods assume static baselines or rely on high-parallax and texture-rich scenes, limiting their reliability under real-world settings. We propose dCAP (dynamic Calibration and Articulated Perception), a vision-based framework that continuously estimates the 6-DoF (degree of freedom) relative pose between tractor and trailer cameras.