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  • Automotive Engineering
  • Sensor Technology
  • Signal Processing

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  • Global Positioning System (GPS) signal unavailability poses challenges for vehicle localization.
  • Existing road profile measurement devices are often costly and bulky, limiting their use in production vehicles.
  • Accurate road profiling is crucial for reliable vehicle localization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a cost-effective virtual sensor for estimating longitudinal road profiles.
  • To enable vehicle localization using estimated road profiles as reference features.
  • To overcome limitations of expensive and bulky road profiling sensor systems.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to capture vehicle responses to road profiles.
  • Designed a disturbance observer, incorporating a Kalman filter and nonlinear damper, to extract road profile features.
  • Employed virtual measurement signals to enhance observer observability.
  • Generated spectrogram plots from estimated road profiles for localization feature extraction.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method accurately estimates longitudinal road profiles.
  • Spectrogram plots derived from estimated road profiles serve as effective localization features.
  • Localization accuracy within a few meters was achieved using the estimated road profile.
  • The virtual sensor approach demonstrated feasibility as an alternative to traditional sensors.

Conclusions:

  • The developed virtual sensor effectively estimates road profiles for vehicle localization.
  • This method provides a compact and cost-effective solution for localization in GPS-denied environments.
  • The technique offers a promising alternative sensor for enhancing vehicle localization capabilities.