Design of a Capacitive Flexible Weighing Sensor for Vehicle WIM System

With the development of the Highway Transportation and Business Trade, vehicle weigh-in-motion (WIM) technology has become a key technology and trend of measuring traffic loads. In this paper, a novel capacitive flexible weighing sensor which is light weight, smaller volume and easy to carry was app...

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出版年:Sensors
主要な著者: Qing Li, Hongjian Zhang, Lu Cheng
フォーマット: 論文
言語:英語
出版事項: MDPI AG 2007-08-01
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オンライン・アクセス:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/7/8/1530/
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要約:With the development of the Highway Transportation and Business Trade, vehicle weigh-in-motion (WIM) technology has become a key technology and trend of measuring traffic loads. In this paper, a novel capacitive flexible weighing sensor which is light weight, smaller volume and easy to carry was applied in the vehicle WIM system. The dynamic behavior of the sensor is modeled using the Maxwell-Kelvin model because the materials of the sensor are rubbers which belong to viscoelasticity. A signal processing method based on the model is presented to overcome effects of rubber mechanical properties on the dynamic weight signal. The results showed that the measurement error is less than Ã���±10%. All the theoretic analysis and numerical results demonstrated that appliance of this system to weigh in motion is feasible and convenient for traffic inspection.
ISSN:1424-8220