ROAD POTHOLE'S DEPTH ESTIMATION AND VOLUME DETECTION 1

Divya Misra, 2Vivek Marwal,

3Umang Patel,

Student, Electronics & Communication department, Laxmi institute of Technology,

Sarigam-Valsad. Gujarat

Corresponding Author Detail:

Divya Misra

Student, ECE department,

Laxmi institute of Technology,

Sarigam-Valsad, Gujarat.

Internal Guide Detail:

Mr. Nandlal Dhandhukia

Assistant Professor, ECE department,

Laxmi institute of Technology,

Sarigam-Valsad. Gujarat.

ABSTRACT

Due to not in accordance with accepted standard of the road track there may be several pothole and

cracks which may create several problems for the citizen which travel or even it can affect on the

condition/maintenance of the vehicles. One of the major reason of improper road track happens due

to unawareness of government towards the condition of road. Road pothole's depth estimation and

volume detection device will detect the cracks, potholes and also estimates its depth and volume

using array of proximity sensor which may function individually and this may get the value of its

depth. Using this application it will take a continuous value by going in the forward direction by

using stepper motors. So by calibrating distance traveled by our device and array of the proximity

sensor value, it will reconstruct a 3D plot of the road with crack and the potholes which will be

helpful for awareness of the condition of the road track at one place

KEYWORDS: pothole detect, volume estimate, 3D plot

INTRODUCTION:

Roads in our country endure heavy rainfall, and as a result they are commonly marked with potholes.

The damage starts with a small crack on the side of the road and ends with big potholes. The damage

grows when water seeps down into the crack. Slowly, the crack grows underneath the road, making

the pavement more susceptible to damage from the weight of traffic. These potholes then cause

damage to vehicles which also increase the maintenance cost. If the vehicle hits a deep, dreaded divot

in the road, steering system misalignment to a full-on tire puncture or bent rims may follow.

Potholes also causes many safety hazards like road accidents. So, to overcome from this problem we

have come up with an idea by which we can easily estimate the depth and volume of the potholes.

After getting an estimated idea about depth and volume of the potholes, these details can be made

available to government agencies or municipal commission who monitors the quality and condition

of the roads. As the details are available to government agencies and municipal commissioner, it

would be easy for them to repair the damaged roads as soon as possible. As we know, whenever the

roads get damaged it takes number of months by government to repair them as they are unaware of

the condition of roads. But by this system, they can easily get the recent situation of the roads and

action would be taken on time.

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RELATED WORK

Figure-1 Autoscan project

The idea of this project is craft from BU college of engineering project “AUTOSCAN”. It is a

pothole detection system that is mounted to a city bus to find potholes, communicate the location of

the damage, and build a database to show the location and repair-status of all damage. Aside from

repairing potholes, AutoScan provides answers to concerned drivers and the state officials

responsible to fix the roads. The hardware is inexpensive to produce, therefore lessening the

taxpayer’s burden; works in real time, to alert operators of all near-by danger; and archives the

number of pothole occurrences on each road, to indicate how susceptible each road is. Road Pothole

Detector is consist of 10 ultrasonic sensor array. It will be placed horizontally face towards road to

detect pothole. Ultrasonic waves will send towards road and using fight of time technique of sound

wave, we will be able to find the road pothole depth and same technique will be used to find volume

of pothole. These value will be sensed by arduino. It will send these value to MATLAB software via

serial communication. MATLAB software uses these data and formed 3D plot of pothole. All these

data will also be used to know the condition of road and will be saved in memory of SD card.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION:

Each ultrasonic sensor will be placed in horizontal array. These array will be placed in such a way

that, it will send a sound waves to particular pothole and measurement of the pothole will be done

using 2rduino using time of flight technique. Each sensor will send wave at different time, so that

there is no traffic of data. In these technique sound wave will cover some distant and get reflected

back to sensor receiver. By calculating time required to reach sensor will be calculated by 2rduino

sensor and it will convert these data in distance. All these data will be send to MATLAB via serial

communication. MATLAB will collect all these data and save it. It will also create 3d plot of data

according to user demand. As one line of the data is received, MATLAB will inform 2rduino for next

line. In response of that 2rduino move forward using stepper motor and recollect the above process.

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

It is a general block diagram for the project pothole detection and volume estimation. This project

content blocks like Power supply, Microcontroller, Array of IR sensors, Stepper motors, Personal

computer, MATLAB, 3d plot construction. All the description related to the each block is explained.

The basic idea of this project is to measure the pothole and identifying the volume of it and

constructing it 3D image so that civilization can easily have a view on it 3d plot. Power supply will

be individually given to sensors, microcontroller and the stepper motors.

Microcontroller will read the signal data coming from each sensors which will be distance between

from sensor to the road surface. It will even control and detect the angle of shaft of the stepper

motors. After the scanning the whole array data it will rotate the shaft and move forward and this

process of scanning and move forward will continue. The values of sensors and stepper motor will

feed by microcontroller to the MATLAB using serial communication. MATLAB will use this data

and construct 3d plot from the data feed by microcontroller.

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Figure-2 Block Diagram

FEATURES:

Cost effective

Device are very complicated to install to estimate road pothole’s volume and pothole’s depth.

Portability for such device is easy.

Government will be aware about road potholes.

With this device, government/BMC will be knowing the road condition.

Installation of pothole scanner is easy.

It can be easy to replace if any damage occur.

All information should be available to user via app and website.

Noise less system

Power consume is less.

CONCLUSION

We have illustrated the creation and development process for “POTHOLE DETECTION AND

VOLUME ESTIMATE”. The goal was to demonstrate or view the pothole detection device for

smart city as well other regional area. We believe that these device is new invention in field of road

pothole detection and volume estimate which will be very helpful to the people and government. The

exploration of interaction design techniques driven by this future vision begin today.

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