Authors:
Viengnam Douangphachanh
and
Hiroyuki Oneyama
Affiliation:
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Keyword(s):
Smartphone Sensors, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Road Roughness Condition, Condition Estimation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Signal Processing
;
Engineering Applications
;
Environmental Monitoring and Control
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Sensors Fusion
;
Signal Processing, Sensors, Systems Modeling and Control
;
Time and Frequency Response
;
Time-Frequency Analysis
Abstract:
Smartphones are potentially useful to be adopted as a cost-effective and easy to implement tool for the measurement of road surface roughness condition, which is very essential for road monitoring and maintenance planning. In this study, an experiment has been carried out to collect data from accelerometers and gyroscopes on smartphones, which are placed at different locations inside vehicles running on road sections with different roughness conditions. The collected data is processed in the frequency domain to calculate magnitudes of the vibration. It has been revealed that at the considered frequency range of 40-50Hz, there is a very strong relationship between road roughness condition and the magnitudes of vibration, calculated from each axis of the accelerometers and gyroscopes; as well as the average speed. Road roughness condition that is modelled as a linear function of the vibration magnitudes, taking into account of both data from accelerometer and gyroscope as well as the a
verage speed, achieves better estimation than the model that takes into account the magnitude from the accelerometer and the average speed alone. The finding is potentially significant for the development of a more accurate model and a better smartphone app to estimate road roughness condition from smartphone sensors.
(More)