u/brown_rabbit_99

Hi guys, I have been trying to work out how a hand eye calibration should be validated. Tools like MoveIt Calibration, easy_handeye and Kalibr print a reprojection error or a transform but I couldn't find a clear way to decide from that whether the result can be trusted. I just read their some github issues as well, what I only saw was that many people end up asking someone more experienced.

What do you run after a calibration to decide it is good? Validation motion, touching a known point, comparing against a measured pose? And does any of it work without an experienced person judging, say if you had to do it across many robots?

I've been thinking about this after some discussions with a few guys. I'm a newbie, so maybe I'm missing something obvious.

Places with a solid in-house maintenance/reliability team seem to catch developing issues early since someone's actually watching trends, doing rounds, etc. But I keep wondering about smaller shops that lean on an outside integrator or controls shop instead of full in-house staff feels like there would be a visibility gap there, but maybe that's not actually true in practice.

I'm curious if anyone's worked somewhere leaner like that and whether it actually played out differently in terms of catching problems early or if it mostly just comes down to the people involved either way.