Exploring the Use of Smartphone Accelerometer and Gyroscope to Study on the Estimation of Road Surface Roughness Condition

Viengnam Douangphachanh, Hiroyuki Oneyama

2014

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 average 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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Douangphachanh V. and Oneyama H. (2014). Exploring the Use of Smartphone Accelerometer and Gyroscope to Study on the Estimation of Road Surface Roughness Condition . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-039-0, pages 783-787. DOI: 10.5220/0005117407830787

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco14,
author={Viengnam Douangphachanh and Hiroyuki Oneyama},
title={Exploring the Use of Smartphone Accelerometer and Gyroscope to Study on the Estimation of Road Surface Roughness Condition},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2014},
pages={783-787},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005117407830787},
isbn={978-989-758-039-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Exploring the Use of Smartphone Accelerometer and Gyroscope to Study on the Estimation of Road Surface Roughness Condition
SN - 978-989-758-039-0
AU - Douangphachanh V.
AU - Oneyama H.
PY - 2014
SP - 783
EP - 787
DO - 10.5220/0005117407830787