Development of a PC-Based Eight-Channel WIM System

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Development of a PC-Based Eight-Channel WIM System

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Kwon, Taek

Aryal, Bibhu

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2007-10

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Minnesota Department of Transportation

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Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) data provides vital information for pavement design and maintenance. The purpose of this research project was to improve the present piezoelectric WIM technologies through a better system design and signal processing algorithms. Present WIM systems are only available as proprietary systems, i.e., the internal system design and algorithms are highly guarded making it difficult to compare and improve the underlying technology. Therefore, the second objective was to develop a WIM system based on an open architecture, utilizing a standard PC and off-the-shelf components, and to publish the details of the design to promote an open architecture for continuous future improvements by other developers. The research team was able to successfully develop a working eight-channel WIM system, and the details are described in this report. The main innovation introduced in this research is a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) WIM simulator that can generate analog axle and loop signals through software control. The HIL simulator can create ideal axle signals, as well as erroneous signal conditions, that can be directly fed into WIM systems. The main advantage of using a WIM HIL simulator for developing a WIM system is that the developers may run an unlimited number of signal tests without actually driving a single vehicle through the WIM sensors, thereby significantly reducing the development time and cost. The erroneous signal conditions generated by the HIL simulator can also identify the error handling capabilities of a WIM system. The proposed HIL simulator for WIM system development is new and provides an elegant solution to the unavailability of an ideal axle signal.

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WIM

Piezoelectric

Hardware-in-the-loop

WIM signal processing

WIM signal generation

Loop signals

Charge amplifier

ESAL

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Mn/DOT 2007-45

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Minnesota Department of Transportation

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Kwon, Taek; Aryal, Bibhu. (2007). Development of a PC-Based Eight-Channel WIM System. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/5598.

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