DETECTION AND ANALYSIS OF HOLES AND BUMPS ON ROAD SURFACES

Abstract

In this study, the road surface irregularities (pits, bumps, holes, speed breakers, etc.) is intended to be detected and identified with a system to be placed on the vehicles. For this purpose; a vibration-sensitive system is designed consisting of sensors, processor, and GPS receiver as hardware and the algorithms to be used for analyzing the obtained data. With the use of 3-dimensional acceleration sensors in the system, the measurements at the vehicles (vehicle speed/acceleration, the severity of the concussion and location information) are transferred to a database and then the resulting data are analyzed. Exact locations of pits and bumps are determined and their magnitudes are estimated.