Data Acquisition Method by Ultrasonic Wave Distance Measurement for Rut DetectionWANG En-jun1,CHEN Xian-qiao1,CHU Xiu-min2,ZHANG Li-guang2 (1.School of Computer Science and Technology,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430063,China;2.Intelligent Transport System Center,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430063,China)Information of road rut directly reflect condition of road transverse profile and traffic safety.This paper selected ultrasonic sensor to get original data of rut,constructed system platform,analyzed principle of ultrasonic wave sensor measure distance and layout of sensor,designed exact cycle sample method to decrease noise in view of output wave shape,and produced real time protocol of CAN application layer.highway maintenance;rut detection;ultrasonic wave distance measurement;data acquisition