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Road Pothole Detection and Location System Based on YOLOv5 and Beidou GPS

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DOI: 10.23977/acss.2025.090407 | Downloads: 3 | Views: 55

Author(s)

Feng Yuanxin 1, Fang Zeping 1, Wang Yitong 1, Du Shuna 1

Affiliation(s)

1 School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China

Corresponding Author

Fang Zeping

ABSTRACT

Road potholes are harmful to safe transportation, which will cause vehicle damage, poor ride comfort and put passengers in danger. Road pothole detection and result application is one of the key measures to solve the above problems. Therefore, this paper designs a road pothole detection and location system. The system mainly consists of edge computing platform (including detection algorithm), road pothole image acquisition module, positioning module, display module and auxiliary module. The computing platform adopts Jetson Nano. The road pothole detection algorithm adopts YOLOv5 algorithm. The positioning module adopts Beidou GPS module. First, the camera collects the image set of road potholes (or adopts an open image set). The image set is divided into two parts: training set and test set, which are used for training and testing respectively. Then, based on YOLOv5 algorithm, the road pothole images in the training set are trained, and the optimal target detection model is obtained. Finally, the model is used to test the road pothole images in the test set. The open road pothole image set is tested, and the road pothole recognition rate is above 90%. Through this system, road potholes can be accurately detected and the location information of potholes can be recorded. The research results in this paper can be provided to traffic management departments and used in unmanned vehicles, which is of great significance to reduce the impact of road potholes on safe driving of vehicles.

KEYWORDS

Road potholes, Detection, YOLOv5, Beidou GPS, Positioning, Edge calculation

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Feng Yuanxin, Fang Zeping, Wang Yitong, Du Shuna, Road Pothole Detection and Location System Based on YOLOv5 and Beidou GPS. Advances in Computer, Signals and Systems (2025) Vol. 9: 52-61. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/acss.2025.090407.

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