Implementation of Pothole Detection System Using 2D LiDAR

Automatic Pothole detection is important task for determining proper strategies of asphalt-surfaced pavement maintenance. In this paper, we develop a pothole detection system and method using 2D LiDAR. Two 2D LiDARs are used to detect pothole shape more accurately. The proposed pothole detection algorithm is composed of noise reduction pre-processing, clustering, line segment extraction, and first-order differentiation of pothole data function. Error rate of pothole detection is used to show the performance of proposed pothole detection system and algorithm. Experiments show that the proposed pothole detection system is efficient method.