4.7 Article

Road profile estimation and half-car model identification through the automated processing of smartphone data

Journal

MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
Volume 142, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2020.106722

Keywords

Road profile estimation; Output-only identification; Smartphone; Kalman filter; Vehicle dynamics

Funding

  1. Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), Infrastructure Maintenance, Renovation, and Management(Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan)

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This paper proposes a robust road profile estimation method and vehicle parameter identification method through an optimization with an objective function and constraint conditions on estimated profiles. The methods require only vehicle response measurements, enabling easy and inexpensive, yet effective, road condition monitoring through the automated processing of smartphone data. A half-car (HC) model, representing both bouncing and pitching motions, is employed for the profile estimation. The road profiles at the front and rear tire locations are included as state variables in the augmented state vector and are estimated by combining the augmented Kalman filter (AKF), Robbins-Monro (RM) algorithm, and Rauch-Tung-Striebel (RTS) smoothing. The two independent state variables, however, correspond to a single physical profile, while their distance coordinates differ by the wheelbase. Therefore, the vehicle parameters are optimized through the minimization of the difference between the identified road profiles at the front and rear tire locations using a genetic algorithm. Three objective functions and three constraint conditions are proposed to automatically select the best vehicle parameters. With this HC model, the road profile is subsequently estimated by combining the AKF, RM, and RTS methods. Through numerical simulations, the accuracy of the profile estimation and validity of the parameter identification are clarified. The influences of different drive speeds and difference between the left and the right profiles are numerically investigated. Drive tests with three different vehicles and a reference laser profiler show that the algorithm can automatically compensate for differences among vehicles with different drive speeds and estimate profiles accurately. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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