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Developing an Estimation Model for Safety Rating of Road Bridges Using Rule-based Classification Method (규칙 기반 분류 기법을 활용한 도로교량 안전등급 추정 모델 개발)

  • Chung, Sehwan;Lim, Soram;Chi, Seokho
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.29-38
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    • 2016
  • Road bridges are deteriorating gradually, and it is forecasted that the number of road bridges aging over 30 years will increase by more than 3 times of the current number. To maintain road bridges in a safe condition, current safety conditions of the bridges must be estimated for repair or reinforcement. However, budget and professional manpower required to perform in-depth inspections of road bridges are limited. This study proposes an estimation model for safety rating of road bridges by analyzing the data from Facility Management System (FMS) and Yearbook of Road Bridges and Tunnel. These data include basic specifications, year of completion, traffic, safety rating, and others. The distribution of safety rating was imbalanced, indicating 91% of road bridges have safety ratings of A or B. To improve classification performance, five safety ratings were integrated into two classes of G (good, A and B) and P (poor ratings under C). This rearrangement was set because facilities with ratings under C are required to be repaired or reinforced to recover their original functionality. 70% of the original data were used as training data, while the other 30% were used for validation. Data of class P in the training data were oversampled by 3 times, and Repeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction (RIPPER) algorithm was used to develop the estimation model. The results of estimation model showed overall accuracy of 84.8%, true positive rate of 67.3%, and 29 classification rule. Year of completion was identified as the most critical factor on affecting lower safety ratings of bridges.

Development of the Driving path Estimation Algorithm for Adaptive Cruise Control System and Advanced Emergency Braking System Using Multi-sensor Fusion (ACC/AEBS 시스템용 센서퓨전을 통한 주행경로 추정 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Dongwoo;Yi, Kyongsu;Lee, Jaewan
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.28-33
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents driving path estimation algorithm for adaptive cruise control system and advanced emergency braking system using multi-sensor fusion. Through data collection, yaw rate filtering based road curvature and vision sensor road curvature characteristics are analyzed. Yaw rate filtering based road curvature and vision sensor road curvature are fused into the one curvature by weighting factor which are considering characteristics of each curvature data. The proposed driving path estimation algorithm has been investigated via simulation performed on a vehicle package Carsim and Matlab/Simulink. It has been shown via simulation that the proposed driving path estimation algorithm improves primary target detection rate.

Estimation of Road Surface Condition and Tilt Angle to Improve the Safety of Mobility Aids for the Elderly (노인용 보행보조기의 안전성 향상을 위한 노면 상태 및 기울기 추정)

  • Park, Gi-Dong;Kim, Jong-Hwa;Choi, Jin-Kyu
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.149-155
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    • 2022
  • This paper proposes a method for estimating the road surface condition and tilt angle using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to improve the safety in the use of mobility aids for the elderly. The measurements of the accelerometers of the IMU usually include the accelerations caused by not only the gravitational force but also linear and rotational motions. Thus, the gravitational accelerations are first extracted using several physical constraints and then incorporated into the Kalman filter to estimate the tilt angle. In addition, because the magnitudes of the accelerations produced by the rotational motions (roll and pitch motions) vary with the road surface condition, a criterion based on such accelerations is presented to classify the condition of the road surface. The obtained road surface condition and tilt angle are finally combined to provide the safety information (e.g., safe, warning, and danger) for the user to improve the walking safety. Experiments were carried out and the results showed that the proposed method can provide the condition of the road surface, the tilt of the road surface, and the safety information correctly.

A Study on the Vehicle Dynamics and Road Slope Estimation (차량동특성 및 도로경사도 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Moon-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.575-582
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    • 2019
  • Advanced driving assist system can support safety of driver and passengers which may require vehicle dynamics states as well as road geometry. It is essential to have in real-time estimation of related variables and parameters. Among the road geometry parameters, road slope angle which can not be measured is essential parameter in pose estimation, adaptive cruise control and others on sag road. In this paper, Kalman filter based method for the estimation of the vehicle dynamics and road slope angle using a nonlinear vehicle model is proposed. It uses a combination of Kalman filter as Cascade Extended Kalman Filter. CEKF uses measured vehicle states such as yaw rate, longitudinal/lateral acceleration and velocity. Unknown vehicle parameters such as center of gravity and inertia are obtained by 2 D.O.F lateral model and experimentally. Simulation and Experimental tests conducted with commercialized vehicle dynamics model and real-car.

AEBS Algorithm with Tire-Road Friction Coefficient Estimation (타이어-노면 마찰계수 추정을 이용한 AEBS 알고리즘)

  • Han, Seungjae;Lee, Taeyoung;Yi, Kyongsu
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2013
  • This paper describes an algorithm for Advanced Emergency Braking(AEB) with tire-road friction coefficient estimation. The AEB is a system to avoid a collision or mitigate a collision impact by decelerating the car automatically when forward collision is imminent. Typical AEB system is operated by Time-to-collision(TTC), which considers only relative velocity and clearance from control vehicle to preceding vehicle. AEB operation by TTC has a limit that tire-road friction coefficient is not considered. In this paper, Tire-road friction coefficient is also considered to achieve more safe operation of AEB. Interacting Multiple Model method(IMM) is used for Tire-road friction coefficient estimation. The AEB algorithm consists of friction coefficient estimator and upper level controller and lower level controller. The numerical simulation has been conducted to demonstrate the control performance of the proposed AEB algorithm. The simulation study has been conducted with a closed-loop driver-controller-vehicle system using using MATLAB-Simulink software and CarSim Vehicle model.

Vehicle Mass and Road Grade Estimation for Longitudinal Acceleration Controller of an Automated Bus (자율주행 버스의 종방향 제어를 위한 질량 및 종 경사 추정기 개발)

  • Jo, Ara;Jeong, Yonghwan;Lim, Hyungho;Yi, Kyongsu
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.14-20
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    • 2020
  • This paper presents a vehicle mass and road grade estimator for developing an automated bus. To consider the dynamic characteristics of a bus varying with the number of passengers, the longitudinal controller needs the estimation of the vehicle's mass and road grade in real-time and utilizes the information to adjust the control gains. Discrete Kalman filter is applied to estimate the time-varying road grade, and the recursive least squares algorithm is adopted to account for the constant mass estimation. After being implemented in MATLAB/Simulink, the estimators are evaluated with the dynamic model and experimental data of the target bus. The proposed estimators will be applied to complement the algorithm of the longitudinal controller and proceed with algorithm verification.

Development of Road Safety Estimation Method using Driving Simulator and Eye Camera (차량시뮬레이터 및 아이카메라를 이용한 도로안전성 평가기법 개발)

  • Doh, Tcheol-Woong;Kim, Won-Keun
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.7 no.4 s.26
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    • pp.185-202
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    • 2005
  • In this research, to get over restrictions of a field expreiment, we modeled a planning road through the 3D Virtual Reality and achieved data about dynamic response related to sector fluctuation and about driver's visual behavior on testers' driving the Driving Simulator Car with Eye Camera. We made constant efforts to reduce the non-reality and side effect of Driving Simulator on maximizing the accord between motion reproduction and virtual reality based on data Driving Simulator's graphic module achieved by dynamic analysis module. Moreover, we achieved data of driver's natural visual behavior using Eye Camera(FaceLAB) that is able to make an expriment without such attaching equipments such as a helmet and lense. In this paper, to evaluate the level of road's safety, we grasp the meaning of the fluctuation of safety that drivers feel according to change of road geometric structure with methods of Driving Simulator and Eye Camera and investigate the relationship between road geometric structure and safety level. Through this process, we suggest the method to evaluate the road making drivers comfortable and pleasant from planning schemes.

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Vehicle Dynamics and Road Slope Estimation based on Cascade Extended Kalman Filter (Cascade Extended Kalman Filter 기반의 차량동특성 및 도로종단경사 추정)

  • Kim, Moon-Sik;Kim, Chang-Il;Lee, Kwang-Soo
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.51 no.9
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    • pp.208-214
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    • 2014
  • Vehicle dynamic states used in various advanced driving safety systems are influenced by road geometry. Among the road geometry information, the vehicle pitch angle influenced by road slope and acceleration-deceleration is essential parameter used in pose estimation including the navigation system, advanced adaptive cruise control and others on sag road. Although the road slope data is essential parameter, the method measuring the parameter is not commercialized. The digital map including the road geometry data and high-precision DGPS system such as DGPS(Differential Global Positioning System) based RTK(Real-Time Kinematics) are used unusually. In this paper, low-cost cascade extended Kalman filter(CEKF) based road slope estimation method is proposed. It use cascade two EKFs. The EKFs use several measured vehicle states such as yaw rate, longitudinal acceleration, lateral acceleration and wheel speed of the rear tires and 3 D.O.F(Degree Of Freedom) vehicle dynamics model. The performance of proposed estimation algorithm is evaluated by simulation based on Carsim dynamics tool and T-car based experiment.

A Study on Lateral Tire-road Friction Coefficient Estimation Using Tire Pneumatic Trail Information (타이어 뉴메틱 트레일 정보를 활용한 횡방향 타이어 노면 마찰 계수에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Kyoungseok;Choi, Seibum
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.310-318
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    • 2016
  • The demands for vehicle safety systems such as ABS and ESC have been increased. Accurate vehicle state estimation is required to realized the abovementioned systems and tire-friction coefficient is crucial information. Estimation of lateral tire-road friction coefficient using pneumatic trail information is mainly dealt in this paper. Pneumatic trail shows unique characteristics according to the wheel side slip angle and these property is highly sensitive to vehicle lateral motion. The proposed algorithm minimizes the use of conventional tire models such as magic formula, brushed tire model and Dugoff tire model. The pure side slip maneuver, which means no longitudinal dynamics, is assumed to achieve the ultimate goal of this paper. A simulation verification using Carsim and Simulink is performed and the results show the feasibility of the proposed algorithms.