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University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication
Technology (USJICT)
Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2018
ISSN-E: 2523-1235, ISSN-P: 2521-5582 © Published by University of Sindh, Jamshoro
Website: http://sujo.usindh.edu.pk/index.php/USJICT/
Estimation of Absolute Speed of Vehicle with the Simplified
Inverse Model
Seher Zamir
1
, Syeda Sumbul Zehra Naqvi
1
, Syeda Hira Fatima
2
1
Department of Electronics, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro
2
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Sindh, Jamshoro
saharkhan139@hotmail.com, sumbulnaqvi17@gmail.com, hira.naqvi@usindh.edu.pk
Abstract: Presently the calculations of complete speed of railway vehicles are very useful for the people in
Pakistan. This is obtained by observing the stimulated time shift for the arbitrary track between two wheel sets of a
bogie. The model developed in this research work is aimed to collect specific characteristics of the movements at
the wheel sets via two inertial sensors seated onto a bogie. An input in the system is provided by means of the
rough surface of track that produces bounce in both wheels that is identical except in the delay of time. This delay
of time is detected by the space between the two wheels. The cross-correlation calculation technique has been used
to determine the delay in time between the movements from one to another. The calculating method is achieved by
extraction, which is based on a discursive model of vehicle.
Keywords: Cross Correlation, Simplified Inverse Model, Time delay
I. INTRODUCTION
The rail vehicle speed’s measurement is often conquered
by noticing the speed of revolution of the wheels, as the
width of the wheel is static. This standard practice has been
providing acceptable accuracy for a long time because there
is no extreme possibility for the wheel slide; this is a
process that allows a wheel to lag and to overrun for the
station of trains. This technique will be employed for the
modeling and simulation of speed of the railway vehicles.
This research is based to study the up to date data available
for the estimation of railway vehicle ground speed and to
acquire a detailed model of vehicle by using one of the most
extensive methods of multimode packages of simulation,
mostly used by the manufacturers of vehicle and to contrast
with the International Union of Railways (UIC). Finally, the
model ought to be able to calculate the speed. The chief
principle of this research work is to study and estimate the
simulation of the measurement of the absolute vehicle speed
and finally analyze the simulated results.
II. STATE OF THE ART
[1] presents dependable and appropriate measurements of
absolute vehicle speed by estimating the time shift of two
adjacent wheels’ motion via cross correlation which is vital
for control purposes of vehicle tracking. [2] shows an
approach for the fault control tolerant for the vehicles
connected to an electrical independent four-wheel driven
system also for that a controller is prepared for ensuring the
stability of vehicles. [3] used an accelerometer and wheel
based speed sensor to accurately estimate the speed of the
vehicle. Filter is used to sense the speed of the vehicle and
fuzzy logic is implemented for this. Basically, three types of
sensing filters are used to reduce high frequency noise of the
acceleration calculations and the error is also measured that
is coming between the vehicle speed [4][5] discussed that
for the development of modern vehicle, its safety and
traction control are the facts of under consideration. The
presented work in this paper is based on Composite
Nonlinear Feedback (CNF) controller application for the
controlling strategies of vehicle lateral dynamic behaviour
based on direct yaw moment compensation. Basically, for
the model of vehicle, two models are constructed one for the
non-linear and the other one for tire. All the controlling
performances have been conducted by means of numerical
simulations using MATLAB/Simulink platform. The main
factors for roadway usage, specially by large vehicles is
discussed to evaluate the infrastructure of highway lifespan,
for this purpose, non-conventional techniques are
specifically designed for the purpose of calculating the
speed of vehicle by means of single loop detectors [6][7]
present the calculations of the speed of vehicles based on
grey constraint optical flow algorithm. A vital role is played
by the vehicle speed measurement for Intelligent
transportation systems (ITS). The speed of vehicle basically
can be measured in two ways i.e. via hardware- based
methods or software-based methods. In this paper, a
software based method is implemented to estimate the speed
of any vehicle by video images. A loop detector named”
Induction-coil loop speed measurement” is embedded into
the ground as whenever a vehicle goes across this loop to
detect the speed. Also, a laser detector is used to be placed