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Automotive Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (7): 1222-1234.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2023.07.013

Special Issue: 车身设计&轻量化&安全专题2023年

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Tire-Road Friction Estimation Method Based on Image Recognition and Dynamics Fusion

Lei Zhang,Keren Guan,Xiaolin Ding(),Pengyu Guo,Zhenpo Wang,Fengchun Sun   

  1. 1.Beijing Institute of Technology,Collaborative Innovation Center for Electric Vehicles in Beijing,Beijing  100081
    2.Beijing Institute of Technology,National Engineering Research Center for Electric Vehicles,Beijing  100081
  • Received:2022-12-08 Revised:2023-01-03 Online:2023-07-25 Published:2023-07-25
  • Contact: Xiaolin Ding E-mail:dingxiaolin@bit.edu.cn

Abstract:

Accurate estimation of tire-road friction is a prerequisite for vehicle active safety control. Firstly, a single-wheel dynamics model is established, and precise estimation of the longitudinal tire force is realized using the Kalman filter. Then a particle filter (PF)-based tire-road friction estimator is developed based on the Magic Formula tire model. Secondly, a forward road adhesion coefficient prediction method based on image recognition is proposed. The DeeplabV3+, semantic segmentation network and the MobilNetV2 lightweight convolutional neural network are used for road segmentation and classification, based on which the tire-road friction is obtained through table look-up. Finally, the spatiotemporal synchronization method and fusion mechanism of dynamics and image recognition are established to realize effective correlation and reliable fusion of the two estimation methods. The Carsim-Simulink co-simulation shows that the proposed estimation method based on image recognition and dynamics fusion can efficiently improve the tire-road friction estimation accuracy.

Key words: tire-road friction, particle filter, image recognition, semantic segmentation, convolutional neural network