State Estimation of Drive-by-Wire Chassis Vehicle Based on Dual Unscented Particle Filter Algorithm

Accurate vehicle dynamic information plays an important role in vehicle driving safety.However,due to the characteristics of high mobility and multiple controllable degrees of freedom of drive-by-wire chassis vehicles,the current mature application of traditional vehicle state estimation algorithms can not meet the requirements of drive-by-wire chassis vehicle state estimation.This paper proposes a state estimation method for drive-by-wire chassis vehicle based on the dual unscented particle filter algorithm,which make full use of the known advantages of the four-wheel drive torque and steer angle parameters of the drive-by-wire chassis vehicle.In the dual unscented particle filter algorithm,two unscented particle filter transfer information to each other,observe the vehicle state information and the tire force parameter information of the four wheels respectively,which reduce the influence of parameter uncertainty and model parameter changes on the estimation accuracy during driving.The performance with the dual unscented particle filter algorithm,which is analyzed in terms of the time-average square error,is superior of the unscented Kalman filter algorithm.The effectiveness of the algorithm is further verified by driving simulator test.In this paper,a vehicle state estimator based on dual unscented particle filter algorithm was proposed for the first time to improve the estimation accuracy of vehicle parameters and states.

Blind Spot Obstacle Detection from Monocular Camera Images with Depth Cues Extracted by CNN

The images from a monocular camera can be processed to detect depth information regarding obstacles in the blind spot area captured by the side-view camera of a vehicle.The depth information is given as a classification result“near”or“far”when two blocks in the image are compared with respect to their distances and the depth information can be used for the purpose of blind spot area detection.In this paper,the proposed depth information is inferred from a combination of blur cues and texture cues.The depth information is estimated by comparing the features of two image blocks selected within a single image.A preliminary experiment demonstrates that a convolutional neural network(CNN)model trained by deep learning with a set of relatively ideal images achieves good accuracy.The same CNN model is applied to distinguish near and far obstacles according to a specified threshold in the vehicle blind spot area,and the promising results are obtained.The proposed method uses a standard blind spot camera and can improve safety without other additional sensing devices.Thus,the proposed approach has the potential to be applied in vehicular applications for the detection of objects in the driver’s blind spot.