Patent ID: 8862423

Claim:
A sensor calibration system for a mobile machine, comprising: a first machine mounted sensor disposed on the mobile machine and configured to sense a characteristic of an offboard object and to generate a corresponding signal; a second machine mounted sensor disposed on the mobile machine and configured to sense the characteristic of the offboard object and to generate a corresponding signal; a machine mounted positioning device configured to determine a machine heading during the characteristic sensing of the first and second machine mounted sensors, wherein the characteristic of the offboard object is a position of the offboard object with respect to the machine heading; and a controller in communication with the first and second machine mounted sensors and the machine mounted positioning device, the controller being configured to: compare the characteristic of the offboard object as sensed by the first machine mounted sensor to the characteristic of the offboard object as sensed by the second machine mounted sensor; and correct subsequent signals received from the first machine mounted sensor based on the comparison.