Speed-independent vibration-based terrain classification for passenger vehicles

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1095-1113

  Ward, Chris C ^a   Iagnemma, Karl ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Road roughness; Sensing; Terrain

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION SIGNALS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; PASSENGER VEHICLES; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PRE-DEFINED CLASS; REAL-WORLD; REASONABLE ACCURACY; RIDE QUALITY; ROAD ROUGHNESS; SENSING; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPEED-INDEPENDENT; TERRAIN; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION; TERRAIN PROFILE; VEHICLE MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; PASSENGER CARS; ROADS AND STREETS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 70449591805     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: 17445159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423110802450193     Document Type: Article

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