Automatic road condition assessment by using point laser sensor

TY - GEN

T1 - Automatic road condition assessment by using point laser sensor

AU - Li, Wenda

AU - Burrow, Michael

AU - Li, Zijun

PY - 2018/10

Y1 - 2018/10

N2 - The assessment of road condition periodically is essential to enable road authorities to provide cost-effective and preventative road maintenance. An increasingly popular approach is to use a scanning laser to acquire surface condition data from a vehicle moving at normal traffic speeds. However, due to the high-density of received data such data collection systems usually are designed with off-line processing. This increases the system cost as a large storage device is required and limits the potential application of the approach. In this paper, we present a robust approach for road assessment which uses point lasers that output low-density 1D scanning data from the road surface and can be processed in real-time allied to a low-complexity signal processing algorithm to assess the road condition data. The experimental results indicate that the point laser and proposed concepts together provide a reliable and adequate means of road condition assessment compared with an approach which uses the scanning laser. © 2018 IEEE.

AB - The assessment of road condition periodically is essential to enable road authorities to provide cost-effective and preventative road maintenance. An increasingly popular approach is to use a scanning laser to acquire surface condition data from a vehicle moving at normal traffic speeds. However, due to the high-density of received data such data collection systems usually are designed with off-line processing. This increases the system cost as a large storage device is required and limits the potential application of the approach. In this paper, we present a robust approach for road assessment which uses point lasers that output low-density 1D scanning data from the road surface and can be processed in real-time allied to a low-complexity signal processing algorithm to assess the road condition data. The experimental results indicate that the point laser and proposed concepts together provide a reliable and adequate means of road condition assessment compared with an approach which uses the scanning laser. © 2018 IEEE.

U2 - 10.1109/icsens.2018.8589855

DO - 10.1109/icsens.2018.8589855

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9781538647073

VL - 2018-October

BT - Proceedings of 17th IEEE Sensors Conference 2018

PB - IEEE

T2 - 17th IEEE Sensors Conference 2018

Y2 - 28 October 2018 through 31 October 2018

ER -