SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ONLINE DOPPLER LIDAR CALIBRATION FOR ROAD VEHICLES

A system for sensor calibration is provided. The system includes a processor in communication with a memory device and a plurality of LiDAR sensors of an autonomous vehicle. The processor is configured to detect, based on data received from a first LiDAR sensor of the plurality of LiDAR sensors, a relative velocity of the autonomous vehicle to a static object while the autonomous vehicle is traveling along a straight trajectory, compute, based on the relative velocity, a vector representing a velocity estimate of the autonomous vehicle, identify the first LiDAR sensor as misaligned when a lateral component of the computed vector is greater than a threshold lateral component, and store, in the memory device, a status of the first LiDAR sensor as misaligned, wherein the autonomous vehicle is controlled based in part on the status of the first LiDAR sensor.