Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada
Abstract
With advances in the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs), more attention has been paid to the effects caused by adverse weather conditions. It is well known that the performance of self-driving vehicles is reduced when they are exposed to stressors that impair visibility or cause water or snow accumulation on sensor surfaces. This paper proposes a model to quantify weather precipitation, such as rain and snow, perceived by moving vehicles based on outdoor data. The modeling covers a wide range of parameters, such as varying the wind direction and realistic particle size distributions. The model allows the calculation of precipitation intensity on inclined surfaces of different orientations and on a circular driving path. The modeling results were partially validated against direct measurements carried out using a test vehicle. The model outputs showed a strong correlation with the experimental data for both rain and snow. Mitigation strategies for heavy precipitation on vehicles can be developed, and correlations between precipitation rate and accumulation level can be traced using the presented analytical model. A dimensional analysis of the problem highlighted the critical parameters that can help the design of future experiments. The obtained results highlight the importance of the angle of the sensing surface for the perceived precipitation level. The proposed model was used to analyze optimal orientations for minimization of the precipitation flux, which can help to determine the positioning of sensors on the surface of autonomous vehicles.
Funder
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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