神经元实时辨识车辆导航系统中的GPS多径误差

在城市车辆导航过程中,多径误差是近距离差分GPS等高精度定位的主要误差源。文章首次提出神经元实时辨识GPS多径误差方法,它能实时辨识当前时刻GPS接收机输出的GPS信号是否含有多径误差,从而解决GPS多径误差对城市车辆导航定位精度的影响。把该方法用到实际工程中,其结果显示能够有效的消除GPS多径误差对城市车辆导航系统定位精度的影响。     

Towards lane-level traffic monitoring in urban environment using precise probe vehicle data derived from three-dimensional map aided differential GNSS

Today's urban road transport systems experience increasing congestion that threatens the environment and transport efficiency. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based vehicle probe technology has been proposed as an effective means for monitoring the traffic situation and can be used for future city development. More specifically, lane-level traffic analysis is expected to provide an effective solution for traffic control. However, GNSS positioning technologies suffer from multipath and Non-Line-Of-Sight (NLOS) propagations in urban environments. The multipath and NLOS propagations severely degrade the accuracy of probe vehicle data. Recently, a three-dimensional (3D) city map became available on the market. We propose to use the 3D building map and differential correction information to simulate the reflecting path of satellite signal transmission and improve the results of the commercial GNSS single-frequency receiver, technically named 3D map-aided Differential GNSS (3D-DGNSS). In this paper, the innovative 3D-DGNSS is employed for the acquisition of precise probe vehicle data. In addition, this paper also utilizes accelerometer-based lane change detection to improve the positioning accuracy of probe vehicle data. By benefitting from the proposed method, the lane-level position, vehicle speed, and stop state of vehicles were estimated. Finally, a series of experiments and evaluations were conducted on probe data collected in one of the most challenging urban cities, Tokyo. The experimental results show that the proposed method has a correct lane localization rate of 87% and achieves sub-meter accuracy with respect to the position and speed error means. The accurate positioning data provided by the 3D-DGNSS result in a correct detection rate of the stop state of vehicles of 92%.     

Localisation de véhicules en milieu urbain par GSM ou radiogoniométrie

The performance of most satellite based positioning procedures for terrestrial vehicles such es des glonas or lutiltras is considerably degraded in urban areas as a result of multipath propagation phenomena and masking effects caused by bulldugs and obstacles. The study described in this paper was performed et the inrets. Transport Electronics and Signal Processing Laboratory illosn and consisted of conducting a feasibility analysis and then developing a mock up of an alternative positioning solution which when compared to existing systems offered greater availability in urban areas and a comparable level of precision. The proposed system uses two independent sensors one of which obtains its information from the public gsm cellular mobile telephone network and the other from the network of public radio transmitters. The paper describes implementation of the two techniques and the results obtained in typical radio electrical environments. An understanding of the behaviour and performance of each system will make it possible to develop algorithms to process the data from the two sensors either together or separately in order to improve the ultimate performance of the system.     

Neural-network multiple models filter (NMM)-based position estimation system for autonomous vehicles

A highly accurate and reliable vehicle position estimation system is an important component of an autonomous driving system. In generally, a global positioning system (GPS) receiver is employed for the vehicle position estimation of autonomous vehicles. However, a stand-alone GPS does not always provide accurate and reliable information of the vehicle position due to frequent GPS blockages and multipath errors. In order to overcome these problems, a sensor fusion scheme that combines the data from the GPS receiver and several on-board sensors has been studied. In previous researches, a single model filter-based sensor fusion algorithm was used to integrate information from the GPS and on-board sensors. However, an estimate obtained from a single model is difficult to cover the various driving environments, including urban areas, off-road areas, and highways. Thus, a multiple models filter (MMF) has been introduced to address this limitation by adapting multiple models to a wide range of driving conditions. An adaptation of the multiple model is achieved through the use of the model probability. The MMF combines several vehicle models using the model probabilities, which indicate the suitability of the current driving condition. In this paper, we propose a vehicle position estimation algorithm for an autonomous vehicle that is based on a neural network (NN)-based MMF. The model probabilities are determined through the NN. The proposed position estimation system was evaluated through simulations and experiments. The experimental results show that the proposed position estimation algorithm is suitable for application in an autonomous driving system over a wide range of driving conditions.     

A weight-based map-matching algorithm for vehicle navigation in complex urban networks

A map-matching algorithm is an integral part of every navigation system and reconciles raw and inaccurate positional data (usually from a global positioning system [GPS]) with digital road network data. Since both performance (speed) and accuracy are equally important in real-time map-matching, an accurate and efficient map-matching algorithm is presented in this article. The proposed algorithm has three steps: initialization, same-segment, and next-segment. Distance between the GPS point and road segments, difference between the heading of the GPS point and direction of road segments, and difference between the direction of consecutive GPS points and direction of road segments are used to identify the best segment among candidates near intersections. In contrast to constant weights applied in existing algorithms, the weight of each criterion in this algorithm is dynamic. The weights of criteria are calculated for each GPS point based on its: (a) positional accuracy, (b) speed, and (c) traveled distance from previous GPS point. The algorithm considers a confidence level on the assigned segment to each GPS point, which is calculated based on the density and complexity of roads around the GPS point. The evaluation results indicate 95.34% correct segment identification and 92.19% correct segment assignment. The most important feature of our algorithm is that the high correct segment identification percentage achieved in urban areas is through a simple and efficient weight-based method that does not depend on any additional data or positioning sensors other than digital road network and GPS.     

Identifying multiclass vehicles using global positioning system data

It has been previously evidenced that global positioning system (GPS) data can be used to distinguish passenger cars from delivery trucks. In this paper, a machine learning approach is proposed to use GPS data to identify multiclass vehicles, including passenger cars, single unit trucks, and multi-trailer trucks. The method is acceleration and deceleration-based since it considers the variations of acceleration and deceleration as the most effective features to classify vehicles. The overall classification result for the three vehicle classes is about 75%. The major challenge is to distinguish single unit trucks from multitrailer trucks due to their somewhat similar mobility patterns. The paper also explores the impacts of GPS sampling frequency on vehicle classification. It is found that the proposed multiclass vehicle classification can be reasonably conducted if the data are collected frequently enough (i.e., every five seconds or more frequently) to capture the major acceleration and deceleration processes. The proposed method can be considered as a low-cost and non-intrusive approach to collect vehicle class information and to potentially supplement the existing classification schemes in urban areas.     

The Use of GPS Based Velocity Measurements for Measurement of Sideslip and Wheel Slip

Summary This paper details a novel method for measuring three key vehicle states – wheel slip, body sideslip angle, and tire sideslip angle – using GPS velocity information in conjunction with other sensors. Based on initial noise data obtained from the system components, a prediction of the accuracy of the angle measurements is obtained. These results demonstrate that the errors due to stochastic noise in the GPS signal are below one degree for meaningful vehicle speeds and approach a tenth of a degree at highway speeds. Hence the limiting factor for measuring these states is not the GPS receiver, but the manner in which other implementation issues – such as bias elimination, off-axis dynamics and dead-reckoning during loss of satellite visibility – are handled. Subsequent experiments validate both the error analysis and the methodology for obtaining the measurements. The experimental results for this preliminary implementation of GPS-based state estimation compare favorably to theoretical predictions, suggesting that this technique has potential for future implementation in vehicle diagnostic and, ultimately, safety systems.     

山区GPS高程转换的探讨

 GPS高程转换的核心问题就是高程异常计算，本文指出了现有算法的不足，推导出更加完善的连续型积分计算公式。该公式在计算过程中无须人工干预，避免了人为误差的影响，并通过试验分析了山区、高山区不同参考面高程对高程异常计算值的影响。在高程拟合方面，对普通的高程拟合进行了改进，给出了一个附加参数的高程拟合模型，试验结果显示这个改进显著提高了高程拟合精度，更加适用于山区GPS高程转换，并把该理论模型用于现场GPS高程测量与实际高程比较。     

Precise and reliable positioning based on the integration of navigation satellite system and vision system

In this paper, we propose a precise and reliable positioning method for solving common problems, such as a navigation satellite’s signal occlusion in an urban canyon and the positioning error due to a limited number of visible navigation satellites. This is an integrated system of the navigation satellites system and a vision system. In general, the navigation satellite positioning system has a fatal weakness in that it can not calculate a position coordinate when its signal is occluded by some obstacle. For this reason, positioning by using the navigation satellites system can not be used for a variety of applications. Therefore, we propose as a method to integrate both the navigation satellites system and the vision system. Some target objects that have accurate position coordinates, for example, in an outdoor shaded area like an urban canyon, are installed into the vision system. When the vision system recognizes a target object it loads the accurate coordinate of that target object. Then, it measures the distance by using the disparity from the camera sensor to the target object. These distance and object coordinate data are used for positioning with the navigation satellites system’s data. This integrated system can be used for the positioning solution where the user is in unfavorable conditions. This paper shows that the algorithm of integrated system and the numerical test performed. The results indicate that the reliable and stable positioning can be obtained by introducing the vision system to the satellite navigation system.     

A hybrid dead reckoning error correction scheme based on extended Kalman filter and map matching for vehicle self-localization

In this research, a hybrid dead reckoning error correction scheme is developed based on extended Kalman filter (EKF) and map matching (MM) to improve the positioning accuracy for vehicle self-localization. The developed method aims at obtaining accurate positions when the GPS signals are occasionally unavailable or weakened. First, the heading data collected from an odometer and an optical fiber gyroscope are integrated by an EKF to reduce the random errors in dead reckoning. Then a modified topological MM algorithm is developed to reduce the systematic errors in dead reckoning. In this work, both cross-track errors and along-track errors are considered to improve positioning accuracy of MM. The errors are finally corrected using the results achieved from both the dead reckoning and the MM when the driving distance of a vehicle exceeds a predefined length or the vehicle turns in an intersection. Experiments have been conducted to evaluate the developed method and the results show that the maximum error and average error of dead reckoning can be respectively reduced to 15.4?m and 5.2?m during the experiment with total distance of 43?km. This positioning accuracy is even better than the accuracy of the low-cost GPSs which are usually at the order of 15–20?m (95%). The developed method is effective to achieve the positions of the vehicle when the GPS signals are occasionally unavailable or weakened.     

基于车联网BSM数据与路侧视频融合的港口集装箱卡车碰撞危险辨识方法

大型港口集装箱码头运输车辆调度频繁,堆场过道和交换区等区域视距狭窄,容易导致港口集装箱卡车与设施、作业人员和车辆发生擦碰事故。为提高智能集装箱卡车在港口密集区域的轨迹跟踪精度和行车安全感知能力,提出了一种车联网条件下融合车载终端基本安全消息（Basic Safety Messages,BSM）数据和路侧视频数据的集装箱卡车碰撞风险辨识方法。采用YOLOv5s算法提取视频监控范围内的目标车辆和作业人员,根据目标集卡大尺寸特点设计非极大值抑制锚框来提高目标识别准确度。运用透视变换原理将目标像素坐标转换成地理坐标,并应用Deep-SORT算法匹配每帧图像的车辆轨迹信息。应用交互式多模型方法（interactive multi-model,IMM）融合视频轨迹信息和车载单元（on-board units,OBU）定位数据,减小了目标机动过程中的观测误差。基于集卡融合轨迹结果,提出了1种新型的轨迹冲突风险评估模型,能够根据目标集卡与周围目标轨迹的相对运动状态实时感知车辆碰撞危险,该碰撞危险检测结果在实际场景中可通过路侧设备对车载终端和作业人员终端实时播发预警信息。针对集卡跟踪误差的实验结果表明：...     

专用短程通信辅助的车辆卫星定位故障检测方法

为了确保卫星定位性能满足特定协作式智能交通应用需求,提高车辆定位系统的故障容错能力,针对车辆卫星定位的自主故障检测与性能优化问题,提出基于专用短程通信辅助的卫星定位故障检测方法,充分利用专用短程通信设备的测距率观测信息,实现故障检测对不同类型卫星可视条件的有效适应。基于专用短程通信多普勒观测特性,构建基于载波频偏的车间测距率观测模型;设计卫星定位与专用短程通信组合观测与解算框架;基于容积卡尔曼滤波提出适于非线性观测特征的故障检测、识别与排除算法,并叠加量测噪声方差矩阵动态调整策略,对故障检测性能进行优化;基于实测试验检验车间测距率的观测性能,并运用实车轨迹对多车协同运行及定位采集过程进行仿真,检验所提出方法的故障检测性能。研究结果表明：提出的方法有效解决了常规接收机自主完好性监测算法受卫星可视条件限制的问题,所引入的量测噪声方差矩阵调整策略提升了故障检测及故障排除性能的稳定性,在给定仿真场景中,常规卫星观测条件下阶跃故障、斜坡故障排除率相对常规方法最高可分别提升52%、18%,受限观测条件下不同水平2类故障的排除率最高分别可达100%、89%,边界观测条件下不同水平2类故障的检测率最高分别可达100%、96%。研究结果对于充分发挥车-车协同模式的核心优势、保障车辆定位性能具有重要价值。     

Developing travel time estimation methods using sparse GPS data

Existing methods of estimating travel time from GPS data are not able to simultaneously take account of the issues related to uncertainties associated with GPS and spatial road network data. Moreover, they typically depend upon high-frequency data sources from specialist data providers, which can be expensive and are not always readily available. The study reported here therefore sought to better estimate travel time using “readily available” vehicle trajectory data from moving sensors such as buses, taxis, and logistical vehicles equipped with GPS in “near” real time. To do this, accurate locations of vehicles on a link were first map-matched to reduce the positioning errors associated with GPS and digital road maps. Two mathematical methods were then developed to estimate link travel times from map-matched GPS fixes, vehicle speeds, and network connectivity information with a special focus on sampling frequencies, vehicle penetration rates, and time window lengths. Global positioning system (GPS) data from Interstate I-880 (California) for a total of 73 vehicles over 6 h were obtained from the University of California Berkeley's Mobile Century Project, and these were used to evaluate several travel time estimation methods, the results of which were then validated against reference travel time data collected from high resolution video cameras. The results indicate that vehicle penetration rates, data sampling frequencies, vehicle coverage on the links, and time window lengths all influence the accuracy of link travel time estimation. The performance was found to be best in the 5-min time window length and for a GPS sampling frequency of 60 s.     

困难地区公路卫星影像测量的控制点布设方法

针对高分辨率卫星影像的特点,以及地面控制点难以实测的实际问题,提出一种沿路线不大于10 km布设一个地面控制点基于有理函数模型( RFM)区域网平差,实现高精度卫星测量的方法.通过对我国青海西宁地区WorldView卫星影像进行试验,验证了本文方法的有效性.工程应用结果表明,WorldView卫星影像可满足1:2 00...     

A Trajectory-Based Map-Matching System for the Driving Road Identification in Vehicle Navigation Systems

Driving road identification is the key issue of a vehicle navigation system that supports various services of intelligent transportation systems. The method for driving road identification is also known as map matching (MM). In spite of the development of MM algorithms, limitations still exist in obtaining the positioning data and preparing candidate roads (CRs) that may result in mismatches in some special difficult road configurations such as flyovers and parallel roads. To overcome the limitations, an integrated trajectory-based MM (tbMM) system is proposed based on the trajectory similarity evaluation method. The system can fuse the information from global positioning systems (GPS) and inertial sensors to generate the vehicle trajectory that represents the vehicle continuous movement in three dimensions. The elevation data of vehicle and roads are involved to enhance the trajectory-based matching process. Also the method employs an optimized mechanism for generating and maintaining CRs. Using the mechanism, separated road segments in a digital map are reorganized in the form of possible driving roads and the topology among them is guaranteed. Moreover, the CRs are obtained considering all the possibilities in determining the driving road so that the valuable historical information can be effectively reserved to provide more reliable matches in ambiguous situations. The tbMM system was evaluated using a number of real-world vehicle-level test datasets in urban areas in Beijing. Also a comparison test was performed to evaluate the driving road identification accuracy against existing MM algorithms. The results show that the tbMM system can provide reliable matches with about 99% accuracy in all the difficult scenarios and outperforms the existing algorithms.     

基于GPS的电子不停车收费车载设备系统开发

分析了传统的高速公路的收费方式和电子不停车收费方式,并针对现有收费方式的弊端,设计集成了具有GPS、GSM／GPRS功能的新一代不停车收费车载设备,它综合利用了卫星定位、无线通信及专用短程通信等技术,实现了车辆的不停车收费功能,并支持信息服务功能,成功应用于卫星定位和无线接入技术的电子不停车收费系统。     

Comparative study of vehicle tyre–road friction coefficient estimation with a novel cost-effective method

This paper qualitatively and quantitatively reviews and compares three typical tyre–road friction coefficient estimation methods, which are the slip slope method, individual tyre force estimation method and extended Kalman filter method, and then presents a new cost-effective tyre–road friction coefficient estimation method. Based on the qualitative analysis and the numerical comparisons, it is found that all of the three typical methods can successfully estimate the tyre force and friction coefficient in most of the test conditions, but the estimation performance is compromised for some of the methods during different simulation scenarios. In addition, all of these three methods need global positioning system (GPS) to measure the absolute velocity of a vehicle. To overcome the above-mentioned problem, a novel cost-effective estimation method is proposed in this paper. This method requires only the inputs of wheel angular velocity, traction/brake torque and longitudinal acceleration, which are all easy to be measured using available sensors installed in passenger vehicles. By using this method, the vehicle absolute velocity and slip ratio can be estimated by an improved nonlinear observer without using GPS, and the friction force and tyre–road friction coefficient can be obtained from the estimated vehicle velocity and slip ratio. Simulations are used to validate the effectiveness of the proposed estimation method.     

基于大货车GPS数据的轨迹相似性度量有效性研究

目前,中国货车上全球定位系统(GPS)的强制安装,使得利用包含时间、空间和速度等信息的货车轨迹数据来研究货车运行模式成为可能。基于距离的轨迹相似性度量算法,采用全国道路货运车辆公共监管与服务平台获取的货车GPS轨迹数据,对比分析其在货车轨迹模式识别中的应用。选用文献中最常用的4种基于距离的轨迹相似性度量算法,分别为离散弗雷歇距离(DFD)、动态时间规整(DTW)、最长公共序列(LCS)和实序列编辑距离(EDR)。试验结果表明:当使用二维地理空间轨迹数据(即经度和纬度)时,4种基于距离的轨迹相似性度量算法都能很好地对相似轨迹进行分类(正确率均高于85%),这与现有文献的结论一致。虽然一般认为二维轨迹相似性算法可以直接应用到多维轨迹数据,但是解决具体问题时可能出现的误差以及各种轨迹相似性算法的适用性仍然不确定。目前几乎没有文献对三维及其以上的多维轨迹数据进行实例分析研究,因而,通过相同路线上的三维GPS货车轨迹数据(包括经度,纬度和速度)对4种基于距离的轨迹相似性度量算法进行验证。将第3维速度加入到二维空间轨迹上后发现LCS算法对基于地理空间轨迹的速度模式分类效果优于其他3种基于距离的轨迹相似性度量算法。这说明运用LCS轨迹相似性度量算法来识别基于三维GPS轨迹的货车运行模式是可行的,LCS算法在货车运营管理等方面将有很大的应用潜力。     

Development of a self-driving car that can handle the adverse weather

Lane and road recognition are essential for self-driving where GPS solution is inaccurate due to the signal block or multipath in an urban environment. Vision based lane or road recognition algorithms have been studied extensively, but they are not robust to changes in weather or illumination due to the characteristic of the sensor. Lidar is a sensor for measuring distance, but it also contains intensity information. The road mark on the road is made to look good with headlight at night by using a special paint with good reflection on the light. With this feature, road marking can be detected with lidar even in the case of changes in illumination due to the rain or shadow. In this paper, we propose equipping autonomous cars with sensor fusion algorithms intended to operate in a different weather conditions. The proposed algorithm was applied to the self-driving car EureCar (KAIST) in order to test its feasibility for real-time use.     

基于多级网络划分的匹配道路初筛方法研究

针对GPS车辆定位系统地图匹配过程中传统匹配道路初筛方法在筛选速度和准确性方面的不足,提出了一种基于多级网络划分的匹配道路筛选方法。算法采用多级网络简单划分、层层筛选的策略,保证了初筛区域的快速、准确定位与初筛路段的准确获取,与多种传统的筛选方法,进行了基于实际数据的运行效果的对比。实证分析可知,文中提出的方法效果较好。