Vehicle Unpaved Road Response Spectrum Acquisition Based on Accelerometer and GPS Data 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2012, 12, 9951-9964; doi:10.3390/s120809951 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Vehicle Unpaved Road Response Spectrum Acquisition Based on Accelerometer and GPS Data Nan Cong 1,*, Jianzhong Shang 1, Yanxi Ren 2 and Yao Guo 1 1 College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China; E-Mails: sjz1966@ (J.S.); @ (Y.G.) 2 System Institute of Engineering Equipment, Beijing 100093, China; E-Mail: renyanxi@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: @; Tel.: +86-731-845-749-32; Fax: +86-731-845-733-47. Received: 10 April 2012; in revised form: 6 July 2012 / Accepted: 16 July 2012 / Published: 25 July 2012 Abstract: This paper describes a response acquisition system composed of some spindle accelerometers and a time synchronized on-board GPS receiver developed in order to collect the dynamic response of vehicle riding on an unpaved road. A method of time-space conversion for calculating the response spectrum is proposed to eliminate the adverse effect of time-varying speed, based on the transform from the equitime sampled spindle acceleration responses to equidistance sampling. By using two groups of independent distance histories acquired from GPS, a method called long-range error correction is proposed to improve the accuracy of the vehicle’s distance information, which is critical for the time-space conversion. The accuracy and limitations of the system have been analyzed, and its validity has been verified by implementing the system on a wheel loader for road response spectrum measuring. This paper offers a practical approach to obtaining unpaved road response spectra for durability road simulation. Keywords: road response spectrum; road simulation; GPS; durability test; sensor fusion 1. Introduction The unpaved road simulation (RS) is an essential element of th