摘要:
There is provided a method for determining a road surface state which can accurately estimate the road surface state on which a vehicle is running at one of finely classified road surface states based on a sound detection signal from a ground contact surface sound detection unit for detecting a sound in the vicinity of the ground contact surface of the tire of the running vehicle. The method calculates a wave profile of frequency dispersion by executing a 1/N octave analysis of a detected sound signal from a sound detection unit 20 for estimating a road surface state. The state of the road surface on which the vehicle is running is determined whether the calculated wave profile of frequency dispersion satisfies predetermined determination conditions of the respective road surface states. A microphone housed in a container is used to detect said sound, and the determining step is adapted to apply the determination conditions to the measured wave profile including a resonance caused by the container.