Amortized Variational Inference for Road Friction Estimation

Road friction estimation concerns inference of the coefficient between the tire and road surface to facilitate active safety features. Current state-of-the-art methods lack generalization capability to cope with different tire characteristics and models are restricted when using Bayesian inference i...

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Main Authors: Chen, Shuangshuang, Ding, Sihao, Muppirisetty, L. Srikar, Karayiannidis, Yiannis, Bjorkman, Marten
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Bayes methods
Data models
Estimation
Force
Friction
Roads
Tires
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Summary:Road friction estimation concerns inference of the coefficient between the tire and road surface to facilitate active safety features. Current state-of-the-art methods lack generalization capability to cope with different tire characteristics and models are restricted when using Bayesian inference in estimation while recent supervised learning methods lack uncertainty prediction on estimates. This paper introduces variational inference to approximate intractable posterior of friction estimates and learns an amortized variational inference model from tire measurement data to facilitate probabilistic estimation while sustaining the flexibility of tire models. As a by-product, a probabilistic tire model can be learned jointly with friction estimator model. Experiments on simulated and field test data show that the learned friction estimator provides accurate estimates with robust uncertainty measures in a wide range of tire excitation levels. Meanwhile, the learned tire model reflects well-studied tire characteristics from field test data.
ISSN:2642-7214
DOI:10.1109/IV47402.2020.9304712