Sensor Fusion of GPS andAccelerometer Data for Estimation of Vehicle Dynamics
Mats Malmberg · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2014
Connected vehicles is a growing market. There are currently several such services available, but many of them are constrained in the sense that they are bound to recently produced cars and either expensive or strongly limited in the services that they provide. In this master thesis we investigate the possibility to implement a generic platform that is of low cost and simple to install in any vehicle, but that still has the ability to provide a wide range of services. It is proposed that a crucial step in such a system is to reconstruct the vehicle’s kinematics, as this enables the possibility to developed a wide range of services by feature extraction and interpret the result from a dynamics perspective. A mathematical model that describes how the kinematics can be reconstructed is proposed, and a filter that performs such reconstruction is implemented. Based on this reconstruction, two filters that interpret the output are implemented as a proof of concept for the proposed mathematical model. The complete implemented filter solution is tested on measurement data from actual driving scenarios and it is seen that we can identify when the vehicle makes a hard turn, and find where the surrounding road conditions are poor.