RailDriVE February 2019 - Data Set for Rail Vehicle Positioning Experiments

Abstract

We provide a data set that can be used for various rail vehicle positioning experiments. The data were collected using the German Aerospace Center (DLR) research vehicle RailDriVE on a segment of the Braunschweig harbor railway in February 2019. Several sensors of the RailDriVE equipment and an additional self-sufficient system provided by Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) were employed, including two GNSS receivers, two inertial measurement units (IMU), and several speed and distance sensors (radar, optical, odometer). Front-facing camera data has been included for documentation purposes. In order to simplify its use, some pre-processing steps were applied to the data, mainly to have common time and coordinate frames. Furthermore, example and reference positioning solutions as well as a track map have been included. The data can be used as a starting point for research work or student theses. Novel and established algorithms for many different sub-problems can be tested on the data, in order to facilitate their comparison and make results and insights more accessible. For reference to the data set in your research, please cite the companion paper: M. Roth and H. Winter, "An Open Data Set for Rail Vehicle Positioning Experiments," 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Sep. 2020