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    Tüübituletus neljandat järku loogikavalemitele

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    Tänapäeval omavad nutiseadmed meie elus suurt rolli, eriti igapäevastes tegemistes. Sellepärast võib kaaluda nutitelefoni kui üht kõige huvitavamat andurit kujutamaks meie tegevusi ja meie ümbrust. Lisaks sellele on nutitelefonide arvutusjõudlus hüppeliselt kasvanud, mida kinnitavad nendes sisalduvad erinevad andurid nagu kiirendusmõõturid ja güroskoobid ning võimekus sooritada rohkem ülesandeid kui kunagi varem. Nende mugavuse ja madala hinna tõttu on nutitelefone hakatud kasutama kui kaasaskantavaid arvutusplatvorme autonoomsete sõidukite arenduses. Intelligentsete sõidukite süsteemide kriitiliseimaks probleemiks on turvalisus. Teekatte tuvastus on üks turvalise liiklemise põhikomponentidest. Enamik praeguseid lahendusi teekatte tuvastamiseks kasutavad erinevate sensorite nagu kaamerate ja LiDARite kokkusulatamist. See on küll efektiivne meetod, kuid tegemist on kallite anduritega ning mille kasutamine vajab auto enda modifitseerimist. Lõputöö pakub välja meetodi teekatte tuvastamiseks kasutades nutitelefonis oleva kiirendusmõõturi andmeid. See protsess kasutab ajaliselt jätjestatud kiirendusmõõturi andmeid, millele järgneb masiivne ajaliselt järjestatud tunnuste eraldamine ja valimine. Peale seda suunatakse eraldatud tunnused DeepSense närvivõrgu raamistikku, et teekate tuvastada. Meetod klassifitseerib kolme erinevat teekatte tüüpi: sile, munakivitee ja kruusatee. Põhjalik pakutud metoodika uurimine ja analüüs viiakse läbi kasutades üldlevinud masinõppe meetodeid nagu tugivektor-masinad, otsustusmets, täielikult ühendatud närvivõrgud ja konvulutioonteisendus närvivõrgud. Metoodikal põhinevad katsed näitavad, et pakutud lähenemine võimaldab tuvastada teekatte siledust väljapakutud kolme kategooriasse.Nowadays, Smart devices plays a big role in our lives, especially in our daily activities. Therefore, Smartphones can be considered as one of the most interesting sensor for depicting our activities and our surroundings. Furthermore, the computation power of smartphones has increased a lot recently as most of them have multiple sensors like accelerometers and gyroscopes. Besides, They are capable of processing more tasks than we ever imagined. Because of their advantages of convenience and low-cost, the portable computation platforms has been adopted in the development of autonomous vehicles. The most critical issue of the intelligent system assisted vehicles is that the safety problem. The recognition of the road surface is one of the components to ensure the safety drive. Most of the solutions use sensor fusion to recognize road surfaces such as combining cameras and LiDARs, which is costly for equipment and they usually need installations to re-equip existing cars, but these methods provide overall excellent results. This thesis proposes a method for recognizing the road surface based on using accelerometer data collected from smartphone. The process uses time series data collected from a smartphone’s accelerometer, followed by a massive time series feature extraction and selection. After that, the features are fed into trained DeepSense variant neural network framework to get the recognition of the road surfaces. The proposed method provides three classes recognition for smooth, bumpy and rough roads. Moreover, in this thesis we conducted a thorough evaluation and analysis of the proposed method by comparing it with conventional machine learning methods like SVM, random forest, fully connected neural network and convolutional neural network. The accuracy of the method in this thesis overmatch the compared examples. The road surface type will be classified into three categories which will indicate smoothness of the road surface

    Development of a Wireless Mobile Computing Platform for Fall Risk Prediction

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    Falls are a major health risk with which the elderly and disabled must contend. Scientific research on smartphone-based gait detection systems using the Internet of Things (IoT) has recently become an important component in monitoring injuries due to these falls. Analysis of human gait for detecting falls is the subject of many research projects. Progress in these systems, the capabilities of smartphones, and the IoT are enabling the advancement of sophisticated mobile computing applications that detect falls after they have occurred. This detection has been the focus of most fall-related research; however, ensuring preventive measures that predict a fall is the goal of this health monitoring system. By performing a thorough investigation of existing systems and using predictive analytics, we built a novel mobile application/system that uses smartphone and smart-shoe sensors to predict and alert the user of a fall before it happens. The major focus of this dissertation has been to develop and implement this unique system to help predict the risk of falls. We used built-in sensors --accelerometer and gyroscope-- in smartphones and a sensor embedded smart-shoe. The smart-shoe contains four pressure sensors with a Wi-Fi communication module to unobtrusively collect data. The interactions between these sensors and the user resulted in distinct challenges for this research while also creating new performance goals based on the unique characteristics of this system. In addition to providing an exciting new tool for fall prediction, this work makes several contributions to current and future generation mobile computing research

    An Automated Machine-Learning Approach for Road Pothole Detection Using Smartphone Sensor Data.

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    Road surface monitoring and maintenance are essential for driving comfort, transport safety and preserving infrastructure integrity. Traditional road condition monitoring is regularly conducted by specially designed instrumented vehicles, which requires time and money and is only able to cover a limited proportion of the road network. In light of the ubiquitous use of smartphones, this paper proposes an automatic pothole detection system utilizing the built-in vibration sensors and global positioning system receivers in smartphones. We collected road condition data in a city using dedicated vehicles and smartphones with a purpose-built mobile application designed for this study. A series of processing methods were applied to the collected data, and features from different frequency domains were extracted, along with various machine-learning classifiers. The results indicated that features from the time and frequency domains outperformed other features for identifying potholes. Among the classifiers tested, the Random Forest method exhibited the best classification performance for potholes, with a precision of 88.5% and recall of 75%. Finally, we validated the proposed method using datasets generated from different road types and examined its universality and robustness

    Intelligent Transportation Related Complex Systems and Sensors

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    Building around innovative services related to different modes of transport and traffic management, intelligent transport systems (ITS) are being widely adopted worldwide to improve the efficiency and safety of the transportation system. They enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and smarter decisions on the use of transport networks. Current ITSs are complex systems, made up of several components/sub-systems characterized by time-dependent interactions among themselves. Some examples of these transportation-related complex systems include: road traffic sensors, autonomous/automated cars, smart cities, smart sensors, virtual sensors, traffic control systems, smart roads, logistics systems, smart mobility systems, and many others that are emerging from niche areas. The efficient operation of these complex systems requires: i) efficient solutions to the issues of sensors/actuators used to capture and control the physical parameters of these systems, as well as the quality of data collected from these systems; ii) tackling complexities using simulations and analytical modelling techniques; and iii) applying optimization techniques to improve the performance of these systems. It includes twenty-four papers, which cover scientific concepts, frameworks, architectures and various other ideas on analytics, trends and applications of transportation-related data

    Smartphone-based vehicle telematics: a ten-year anniversary

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    This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this recordJust as it has irrevocably reshaped social life, the fast growth of smartphone ownership is now beginning to revolutionize the driving experience and change how we think about automotive insurance, vehicle safety systems, and traffic research. This paper summarizes the first ten years of research in smartphone-based vehicle telematics, with a focus on user-friendly implementations and the challenges that arise due to the mobility of the smartphone. Notable academic and industrial projects are reviewed, and system aspects related to sensors, energy consumption, and human-machine interfaces are examined. Moreover, we highlight the differences between traditional and smartphone-based automotive navigation, and survey the state of the art in smartphone-based transportation mode classification, vehicular ad hoc networks, cloud computing, driver classification, and road condition monitoring. Future advances are expected to be driven by improvements in sensor technology, evidence of the societal benefits of current implementations, and the establishment of industry standards for sensor fusion and driver assessment

    Context Detection, Categorization and Connectivity for Advanced Adaptive Integrated Navigation

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    Context is the environment that a navigation system operates in and the behaviour of its host vehicle or user. The type and quality of signals and environmental features available for positioning varies with the environment. For example, GNSS provides high-quality positioning in open environments, low-quality positioning in dense urban environments and no solution at all deep indoors. The behaviour of the host vehicle (or pedestrian) is also important. For example, pedestrian, car and train navigation all require different map-matching techniques, different motion constraints to limit inertial navigation error growth, and different dynamic models in a navigation filter [1]. A navigation system design should therefore be matched to its context. However, the context can change, particularly for devices, such as smartphones, which move between indoor and outdoor environments and can be stationary, on a pedestrian, or in a vehicle. For best performance, a navigation system should therefore be able to detect its operating context and adapt accordingly; this is context-adaptive positioning [1]. Previous work on context-adaptive navigation and positioning has focused on individual subsystems. For example, there has been substantial research into determining the motion type and sensor location for pedestrian dead reckoning using step detection [2-4]. Researchers have also begun to investigate context-adaptive (or cognitive) GNSS [5-7]. However, this paper considers context adaptation across an integrated navigation system as a whole. The paper addresses three aspects of context-adaptive integrated navigation: context detection, context categorization and context connectivity. It presents experimental results showing how GNSS C/N0 measurements, frequency-domain MEMS inertial sensor measurements and Wi-Fi signal availability could be used to detect both the environmental and behavioural contexts. It then looks at how context information could be shared across the different components of an integrated navigation system. Finally, the concept of context connectivity is introduced to improve the reliability of context detection. GNSS C/N0 measurement distributions, obtained using a smartphone, and Wi-Fi reception data collected over a range of indoor, urban and open environments will be compared to identify suitable features from which the environmental context may be derived. In an open environment, strong GNSS signals will be received from all directions. In an urban environment, fewer strong signals will be received and only from certain directions. Inside a building, nearly all GNSS signals will be much weaker than outside. Wi-Fi signals essentially vary with the environment in the opposite way to GNSS. Indoors, more access points (APs) can be received at higher signal strengths and there is greater variation in RSS. In urban environments, large numbers of APs can still be received, but at lower signal strengths [6]. Finally, in open environments, few APs, if any, will be received. Behavioural context is studied using an IMU. Although an Xsens MEMS IMU is used in this study, smartphone inertial sensors are also suitable. Pedestrian, car and train data has been collected under a range of different motion types and will be compared to identify context-dependent features. Early indications are that, as well as detecting motion, it is also possible to distinguish nominally-stationary IMUs that are placed in a car, on a person or on a table from the frequency spectra of the sensor measurements. The exchange of context information between subsystems in an integrated navigation system requires agreement on the definitions of those contexts. As different subsystems are often supplied by different organisations, it is desirable to standardize the context definitions across the whole navigation and positioning community. This paper therefore proposes a framework upon which a “context dictionary” could be constructed. Environmental and behavioural contexts are categorized separately and a hierarchy of attributes is proposed to enable some subsystems to work with highly specific context categories and others to work with broader categories. Finally, the concept of context connectivity is introduced. This is analogous to the road link connectivity used in map matching [8]. As context detection involves the matching of measurement data to stored context profiles, there will always be occurrences of false or ambiguous context identification. However, these may be minimized by using the fact that it is only practical to transition directly between certain pairs of contexts. For example, it is not normally possible to move directly from an airborne to an indoor environment as an aircraft must land first. Thus, the air and land contexts are connected, as are the land and indoor contexts, but the air and indoor contexts are not. Thus, by only permitting contexts that are connected to the previous context, false and ambiguous context detection is reduced. Robustness may be further enhanced by considering location-dependent connectivity. For example, people normally board and leave trains at stations and fixed-wing aircraft typically require an airstrip to take off and land. / References [1] Groves, P. D., Principles of GNSS, inertial, and multi-sensor integrated navigation systems, Second Edition, Artech House, 2013. [2] Park, C. G., et al., “Adaptive Step Length Estimation with Awareness of Sensor Equipped Location for PNS,” Proc. ION GNSS 2007. [3] Frank, K., et al., “Reliable Real-Time Recognition of Motion Related Human Activities Using MEMS Inertial Sensors,” Proc. ION GNSS 2010. [4] Pei, L., et al., “Using Motion-Awareness for the 3D Indoor Personal Navigation on a Smartphone,” Proc. ION GNSS 2011. [5] Lin, T., C. O’Driscoll, and G. Lachapelle, “Development of a Context-Aware Vector-Based High-Sensitivity GNSS Software Receiver,” Proc. ION ITM 2011. [6] Shafiee, M., K., O’Keefe, and G. Lachapelle, “Context-aware Adaptive Extended Kalman Filtering Using Wi-Fi Signals for GPS Navigation,” Proc. ION GNSS 2011. [7] Shivaramaiah, N. C., and A. G. Dempster, “Cognitive GNSS Receiver Design: Concept and Challenges,” Proc. ION GNSS 2011. [8] Quddus, M. A., High Integrity Map Matching Algorithms for Advanced Transport Telematics Applications, PhD Thesis, Imperial College London, 2006
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