Simplified Vehicle Vibration Modeling for Image Sensor Communication

Masayuki Kinoshita, Takaya Yamazato, Hiraku Okada, Toshiaki Fujii, Shintaro Arai, Tomohiro Yendo, and Koji Kamakura

visible light communication, image sensor communication, vehicle vibration, road surface irregularity, transmitter displacement, vehicle motion model
Image sensor communication (ISC), derived from visible light communication (VLC) is an attractive solution for outdoor mobile environments, particularly for intelligent transport systems (ITS). In ITS-ISC, tracking a transmitter in the image plane is critical issue since vehicle vibrations make it difficult to select the correct pixels for data reception. Our goal in this study is to develop a precise tracking method. To accomplish this, vehicle vibration modeling and its parameters estimation, i.e., representative frequencies and their amplitudes for inherent vehicle vibration, and the variance of the Gaussian random process representing road surface irregularity, are required. In this paper, we measured actual vehicle vibration in a driving situation and determined parameters based on the frequency characteristics. Then, we demonstrate that vehicle vibration that induces transmitter displacement in an image plane can be modeled by only Gaussian random processes that represent road surface irregularity when a high frame rate (e.g., 1000 fps) image sensor is used as an ISC receiver. The simplified vehicle vibration model and its parameters are evaluated by numerical analysis and experimental measurement and obtained result shows that the proposed model can reproduce the characteristics of the transmitter displacement sufficiently.

Simplified Vehicle Vibration Modeling for Image Sensor Communication

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

E101-A

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