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Automotive Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (10): 1547-1555.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2022.10.009

Special Issue: 底盘&动力学&整车性能专题2022年

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Road Slope Estimation Based on Unscented Kalman Filtering and Gated Recurrent Unit

Datong Qin(),Kang Wang,Jihao Feng,Yonggang Liu,Kun Cheng,Yu Xia   

  1. Chongqing University,State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmission,Chongqing  400044
    2.College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering,Chongqing University,Chongqing  400044
  • Received:2022-04-19 Revised:2022-06-02 Online:2022-10-25 Published:2022-10-21
  • Contact: Datong Qin E-mail:dtqin@cqu.edu.cn

Abstract:

In view of the poor universality of external lidar and other sensors, and the large error of traditional road slope estimation method based on onboard CAN bus data in four special conditions of vehicle, including starting, gear shifting, braking, and stopping, a road slope estimation approach based on unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and gated recurrent unit (GRU) is proposed. The working condition is determined according to vehicle speed and other data. Under non-special conditions, the vehicle dynamic model is established and UKF is used to estimate the slope. Under special working conditions, the time series slope with unstable-regularity is converted to the distance series slope, and GRU is used to estimate the short-range slope. The results of simulation and real vehicle tests show that under non-special conditions, the method proposed can accurately estimate the road slope using UKF, and under special conditions, the method can effectively track the changing trend of distance series slope through GRU, significantly enhancing the estimation accuracy of road slope.

Key words: slope estimation, unscented Kalman filtering, gated recurrent unit, short-range slope