Speed bump and pothole detection for children’s scooter

Mohd Jahid, Muhammad Izzul Islam (2024) Speed bump and pothole detection for children’s scooter. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Children’s scooter is one of the most popular toys that parents buy for their cildren and also not only the scooter is exclusive to children, there are also scooters that is made for adults. Other than that, there are also scooters powered by electric motor that moves without using the leg to push it forward. These scooters may seem safe to use but the roads that these scooter moves on may not be so safe due to some hazards and those hazars are speed bumps and potholes. The original purpose of a speed bump is to slow down vehicle in residential areas to avoid drivers hitting people. But a speed bump becomes a hazard to scooter riders especially children scooter riders when they go over the speed bump to fast because the scooter rider does not notice the speed bump and may lead to them falling on the pavement and causing them to sustain injuries. Same goes for potholes, potholes are more dangerous because it is easier to not notice a pothole because of the color of the paved road and the pothole is almost the same. This project is conducted with the aim to detect these hazards and inform the scooter rider of them so that they can slow down and avoid going over them and cause the scooter rider to fall on the road. This project useses an ultrasonic sensor to detect the speed bump and pothole that is connected to an Arduino microcontroller and a buzzer module to produce a sound to aleart the scooter rider of the detected hazard. After obtaining the components and designing the connection of the components to the Arduino microcontroller, the process of uploading a source code into the Arduino microcontroller is done to obtain the detection and alerting system that will be placed on the scooter or children’s scooter. Then, an on-road testing is done where the scooter or children’s scooter that is equiped with the detection and alerting system is placed infront of the speed bump and pothole to see if the detection and alerting system work as intended or not with the aid of a decibel meter application to capture the sound produced by the buzzer. The results of the on-road testing shows that the system works but it is not accurate because when faced with a shorter speed bump, the system will not detect the speed bump and for the pothole detection, the detection system will detect the pothole and also sometime detects the surface of the road because the buzzer will make a sound even though there is no pothole. With the help of these results, this project can be further improved in detecting speed bumps and potholes so that less scooter riders will fall while riding a scooter due to those hazards.

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