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The use of vehicle acceleration measurements to estimate road roughness
Date Issued
2008-06
Date Available
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Abstract
Road roughness is a broad term that incorporates everything from potholes and cracks to the random deviations that exist in a profile. To build a roughness index, road irregularities need to be measured first. Existing methods of gauging the roughness are based either on visual inspections or using one of a limited number of instrumented vehicles that can take physical measurements of the road irregularities. This paper proposes the collection of data from accelerometers fixed in a specific vehicle type and the use of this data to estimate the road condition. Although the estimate is approximate, accelerometers are being increasingly used by car manufacturers to improve suspension performance and the proposed method is relatively inexpensive to implement and provide road managers with constantly updated measurements of roughness. This approach is possible due to the relationship between the power spectral densities of road surface and vehicle accelerations via a transfer function. This paper shows how road profiles can be accurately classified using axle and body accelerations from a range of simulated vehicle-road dynamic scenarios.
Sponsorship
Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology
Type of Material
Journal Article
Journal
Vehicle System Dynamics
Volume
46
Issue
6
Start Page
483
End Page
499
Copyright (Published Version)
2008 Taylor & Francis
Subject – LCSH
Pavements--Defects--Classification
Accelerometers
Acceleration (Mechanics)--Measurement
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Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1744-5159 (electronic)
0042-3114 (paper)
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