TY - CHAP

T1 - Enabling Road Condition Monitoring with an on-board Vehicle Sensor Setup

AU - Kortmann, Felix

AU - Peitzmeier, Henning

AU - Meier, Nicolas

AU - Heger, Jens

AU - Drews, Paul

N1 - Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 13 January 2020

PY - 2019/10

Y1 - 2019/10

N2 - This paper reports a novel approach for assessing the surface profile of roads utilizing the vehicle level sensor. The sensor is already legally binding installed in modern vehicles with headlights including LED and Xenon lighting sources in Europe due to the automatic luminaire width control. The effective application of the presented sensor setup is validated within a laboratory setup displaying and simulating the quarter-vehicle-model for known surface profiles while comparing the simulated results with measured values from the sensor setup. The results show that the measured data are in accordance to the general characteristic of the signals frequency and slope. The amplitudes derivate slightly due to inertia in the laboratory setup. This paper shows that the approach of utilizing the vehicle level sensor for road condition monitoring works in principle. It is the first step towards a real-time modelling of road conditions from common vehicles utilizing given sensors.

AB - This paper reports a novel approach for assessing the surface profile of roads utilizing the vehicle level sensor. The sensor is already legally binding installed in modern vehicles with headlights including LED and Xenon lighting sources in Europe due to the automatic luminaire width control. The effective application of the presented sensor setup is validated within a laboratory setup displaying and simulating the quarter-vehicle-model for known surface profiles while comparing the simulated results with measured values from the sensor setup. The results show that the measured data are in accordance to the general characteristic of the signals frequency and slope. The amplitudes derivate slightly due to inertia in the laboratory setup. This paper shows that the approach of utilizing the vehicle level sensor for road condition monitoring works in principle. It is the first step towards a real-time modelling of road conditions from common vehicles utilizing given sensors.

KW - Business informatics

KW - condition monitoring

KW - laboratory techniques

KW - light emitting diodes

KW - lighting

KW - road vehicles

KW - sensors

KW - xenon

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078697923&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/SENSORS43011.2019.8956699

DO - 10.1109/SENSORS43011.2019.8956699

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-1-7281-1635-8

T3 - Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

BT - 2019 IEEE Sensors, SENSORS 2019 - Conference Proceedings

PB - IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

CY - Piscataway

T2 - IEEE Sensors - IEEE 2019

Y2 - 27 October 2019 through 30 October 2019

ER -