Intelligent Tire Systems

Intelligent Tire Systems
Author: Nan Xu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2022-09-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031102681

Vehicle performance is largely controlled by the tire dynamic characteristics mediated by forces and moments generated at the tire-road contact patch. The tire may undergo deformations that increase the longitudinal and lateral forces within the contact patch. It is crucial to develop a model for the accurate prediction of tire characteristics, as this will enable optimization of the overall performance of vehicles. Research has been conducted to identify new strategies for tire measurement and modeling vehicle dynamics analysis. Autonomous vehicles (AVs), electric vehicles (EVs), shared sets, and connected vehicles have further revolutionized interdisciplinary research on vehicle and tire systems. The performance and reliability of vehicle active safety and advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs) are primarily influenced by the tire force capacity, which cannot be measured. High active safety and optimized ADAS are particularly crucial for automated driving systems (ADS) to guarantee passenger safety in intelligent transportation settings. The establishment of online measurement or estimation tools for tire states, especially for autonomous vehicles, is critical.

Towards Intelligent Tire and Self-powered Sensing Systems

Towards Intelligent Tire and Self-powered Sensing Systems
Author: Hassan Askari
Publisher:
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2019
Genre: Tires
ISBN:

Tires are the interface between a vehicle and the ground providing forces and isolation to the vehicle. For vehicle safety, stability, maintenance, and performance, it is vital to estimate or measure tire forces, inflation pressure, and contact friction coefficient. Estimation methods can predict tire forces to some extent however; they fail in harsh maneuvers and are dependent on road surface conditions for which there is no robust estimation method. Measurement devices for tire forces exist for vehicle testing but at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars. Tire pressure-monitoring sensors (TPMS) are the only sensors available in newer and higher end vehicles to provide tire pressure, but there are no sensors to measure road surface condition or tire forces for production vehicles. With the prospect of autonomous driving on roads in near future, it is paramount to make the vehicles safe on any driving and road condition. This is only possible by additional sensors to make up for the driver's cognitive and sensory system. Measuring road condition and tire forces especially in autonomous vehicles are vital in their safety, reliability, and public confidence in automated driving. Real time measurement of road condition and tire forces in buses and trucks can significantly improve the safety of road transportation system, and in miming/construction and off-road vehicles can improve performance, tire life and reduce operational costs. In this thesis, five different types of sensors are designed, modelled, optimized and fabricated with the objective of developing an intelligent tire. In order to design these sensors,~both electromagnetic generator (EMG) and triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) are used. In the first two initial designed sensors, with the combination of EMG and TENG into a single package, two hybridized sensors are fabricated with promising potential for self-powered sensing. The potential of developed sensors are investigated for tire-condition monitoring system (TCMS). Considering the impressive properties of TENG units of the developed hybridized devices, three different flexible nanogenerators, only based on this newly developed technology, are developed for TCMS. The design, modelling, working mechanism, fabrication procedure, and experimental results of these TENG sensors are fully presented for applications in TCMS. Among these three fabricated sensors, one of them shows an excellent capability for TCMS because of its high flexibility, stable and high electrical output,and an encapsulated structure. The high flexibility of developed TENG sensor is a very appealing feature for TCMS, which cannot be found in any available commercial sensor. The fabricated TENG sensors are used for developing an intelligent tire module to be eventually used for road testing. Several laboratory and road tests are performed to study the capability of this newly developed TENG-based sensor for tire-condition monitoring system. However the development of this sensor is in its early stage, it shows a promising potential for installation into the hostile environment of tires and measuring tire-road interacting forces. A comparative studies are provided with respect to Michigan Scientific transducer to investigate the potential of this flexible nanogenerator for TCMS. It is worth mentioning that this PhD thesis presents one of the earliest works on the application of TENG-based sensor for a real-life system. Also, the potential of commercially available thermally and mechanically durable Micro Fiber Composite (MFC) sensor is experimentally investigated for TCMS with fabricating another set of intelligent tire. Several testing scenarios are performed to examine the potential of these sensors for TCMS taking into account a simultaneous measurement from Michigan Scientific transducer. Although both flexibility and the cost of this sensor is not comparable with the fabricated TENG device, they have shown a considerable and reliable performance for online measuring of tire dynamical parameters in different testing scenarios, as they can be used for both energy harvesting and sensing application in TCMS. The extensive road testing results based on the MFC sensors provide a valuable set of data for future research in TCMS. It is experimentally shown that MFC sensor can generate up to 1.4 $\mu W$ electrical power at the speed of 28 $[kph]$. This electrical output shows the high capability of this sensor for self-powered sensing application in TCMS. Results of this thesis can be used as a framework by researchers towards self-powered sensing system for real-world applications such as intelligent tires.

Design and Analysis of Intelligent Tires

Design and Analysis of Intelligent Tires
Author: Xiangwen Zhang
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-05
Genre: Smart materials
ISBN: 9780124167315

Design and Analysis of Intelligent Tires covers tire temperature, pressure, friction, wear, and aging. While its main focus is intelligent tire properties analysis and application development, it also addresses intelligent technology, control theory, and sensor technology, providing users with strict theoretical analysis and detailed technology design processes for intelligent tires. Systems featured include tire pressure monitoring, vehicle active braking, steering, and tire state intelligent regulating systems. The text will be of interest to a wide swath of professionals, including those working in vehicle electronics, vehicle control technology, and vehicle tire technology. Users will find a plethora of theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications. Provides the critical aspects of intelligent tires, including properties analysis and application development Addresses control theory, sensor technology, and detailed technology design processes Considers the advantages and limitations of different sensors Presents key applications of intelligent tires supported by case studies

Stretchable flexible sensors for smart tires based on laser-induced graphene technology

Stretchable flexible sensors for smart tires based on laser-induced graphene technology
Author: Yang Yue
Publisher: OAE Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2023-04-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Continuous feedback on a tire is an essential means to ensure tire safety. Smart tires are an important part of the future vehicle control system, which affects the safety and comfort of vehicles by combining sensors with traditional tires to achieve continuous monitoring of real-time dynamic parameters. A stretchable and flexible sensor made of laser-induced graphene (LIG) and PDMS, designed for use in smart tires, is presented in this work. The sensor is known as a LIG-PDMS sensor. Using transfer printing, LIG is formed on a commercial polyimide film under the scribing of a laser beam following the predesigned route before being transferred to a PDMS film. This technology is used to successfully prepare flexible sensors for measuring the tire road interaction at different driving speeds due to its flexibility and shape-following characteristics. The real-time monitoring of the wheel speed and the shape of the tire grounding mark during the driving process is realized by embedding multiple LIG sensors in the tire to monitor the strain information of the tire grounding. Results show that the tire deformation can be accurately feedbacked with the LIG sensors, demonstrating our method's capability for designing and manufacturing intelligent tires.

11th International Munich Chassis Symposium 2020

11th International Munich Chassis Symposium 2020
Author: Peter E. Pfeffer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2021-06-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3662631938

The increasing automation of driving functions and the electrification of powertrains present new challenges for the chassis with regard to complexity, redundancy, data security, and installation space. At the same time, the mobility of the future will also require entirely new vehicle concepts, particularly in urban areas. The intelligent chassis must be connected, electrified, and automated in order to be best prepared for this future. Contents New Chassis Systems.- Handling and Vehicle Dynamics.- NVH – Acoustics and Vibration in the Chassis.- Smart Chassis, ADAS, and Autonomous Driving.- Lightweight Design.- Innovative Brake Systems.- Brakes and the Environment.- Electronic Chassis Systems.- Virtual Chassis Development and Homologation.- Innovative Steering Systems and Steer-by-Wire.- Development Process, System Properties and Architecture.- Innovations in Tires and Wheels. Target audiences Automotive engineers and chassis specialists as well as students looking for state-of-the-art information regarding their field of activity - Lecturers and instructors at universities and universities of applied sciences with the main subject of automotive engineering - Experts, researchers and development engineers of the automotive and the supplying industry Publisher ATZ live stands for top quality and a high level of specialist information and is part of Springer Nature, one of the leading publishing groups worldwide for scientific, educational and specialist literature. Partner TÜV SÜD is an international leading technical service organisation catering to the industry, mobility and certification segment.

Design of a Smart Tire Sensor System

Design of a Smart Tire Sensor System
Author: Jennifer Bastiaan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2015
Genre: Automobiles
ISBN:

A research project is conducted that involves the design of a smart tire sensor system that can determine six tire outputs, including tire longitudinal force, tire lateral force, tire vertical force, tire aligning moment, tire / road friction coefficient and tire air inflation pressure. All of these quantities are estimated using in-tire deformation sensors. The rationale for conducting the smart tire research project is that its results have the potential to improve ground vehicle safety. The objectives of the research project are to identify the quantity and types of sensors required, determine the sensor locations and orientations in the tire, develop post-processing methods for the raw sensor output and confirm correct operation of the sensor system, which involves prototyping and physical testing. Strain is predicted in the tire inner liner as part of a tire finite element analysis study. The tire finite element model is used to calculate strain (inputs) and tire forces (outputs) for use in artificial neural networks. Results from the radial basis function networks studied are excellent, with calculated tire forces within 1% and tire aligning moment within 1%. The conclusion is that radial basis function networks can likely be used effectively for analysis of strain sensor measurements in the smart tire sensor system. Further studies using virtual strain show that the system should have two in-tire strain sensors located near one another at the outside sidewall, with one oriented longitudinally and the other oriented radially, along with an angular position sensor. Commercially available piezoelectric deformation sensors are installed in this layout, along with a rotary encoder, in a smart tire physical prototype. On-road data collected during physical testing are used with radial basis function neural networks to estimate the three orthogonal tire forces and the tire aligning moment. The networks are found capable of predicting the correct trends in the tire force data over several testing events. While the smart tire sensor system in its current state of development is not production-ready, the research project has resulted in new scientific knowledge that will be the foundation of future smart tire work. Contributions include the identification of in-tire sensor quantity, locations and orientations, confirmation that an angular position measurement is necessary and the determination of the artificial neural network architecture. The most significant remaining smart tire technical hurdle is the identification of a sufficiently durable strain sensor for in-tire use. If this strain sensor can be found, the next steps will include validation of the non-force tire estimates and studies of temperature effects, wireless data transmission and energy harvesting for a battery free design. Despite these outstanding concerns, the results of the smart tire research project show that the concept is feasible and further work is justified.

Intelligent Vehicle Technologies

Intelligent Vehicle Technologies
Author: Ljubo Vlacic
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2001
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0750650931

An exploration of the growing field of intelligent technologies, from intelligent control systems to intelligent sensors. Systems such as in-car navigation devices and cruise control are already being introduced into modern vehicles, but manufacturers are now racing to develop systems such as smart cruise control, on-vehicle driver information systems, collision avoidance systems, vision enhancement and roadworthiness diagnostics systems. There are practical examples and illustrations throughout the book.

Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition

Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition
Author: Akram Bennour
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2022-06-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303108277X

This volume constitutes selected papers presented during the Second International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition, ISPR 2022, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, in March 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 22 full papers and 10 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 91 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: computer vision; data mining; pattern recognition; machine and deep learning.

Intelligent Vehicles

Intelligent Vehicles
Author: David Fernández-Llorca
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3039434020

This book presents the results of the successful Sensors Special Issue on Intelligent Vehicles that received submissions between March 2019 and May 2020. The Guest Editors of this Special Issue are Dr. David Fernández-Llorca, Dr. Ignacio Parra-Alonso, Dr. Iván García-Daza and Dr. Noelia Parra-Alonso, all from the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain). A total of 32 manuscripts were finally accepted between 2019 and 2020, presented by top researchers from all over the world. The reader will find a well-representative set of current research and developments related to sensors and sensing for intelligent vehicles. The topics of the published manuscripts can be grouped into seven main categories: (1) assistance systems and automatic vehicle operation, (2) vehicle positioning and localization, (3) fault diagnosis and fail-x systems, (4) perception and scene understanding, (5) smart regenerative braking systems for electric vehicles, (6) driver behavior modeling and (7) intelligent sensing. We, the Guest Editors, hope that the readers will find this book to contain interesting papers for their research, papers that they will enjoy reading as much as we have enjoyed organizing this Special Issue

Experimental Analysis of Smart Tires

Experimental Analysis of Smart Tires
Author: Hasan Toplar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

A novel smart tire monitoring system was designed and implemented on a fully functional car tire. Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) based piezo-electric sensors were embedded inside rubber tire to measure strain related data. System electronics were implemented inside a robust IP-68 (Ingress Protection) rated enclosure. This enclosure was mounted on a car wheel and successfully recorded sensory data onto an SD card during driving. Data collected from the PVDF sensors were then post-processed in Matlab. An artificial neural network (ANN) was built to correlate the sensor data to the readings given by an industry grade load wheel. Although the correlations are very crude, this study shows a promising way to analyze the strain related information from car tires by using PVDF sensors in conjunction with ANNs. This strain related information can then be used to estimate six different values concerning the tire, namely lateral force (Fy), longitudinal force (Fx), normal force (Fz), aligning moment (Mz), inflation pressure and friction coefficient. All of which are very important parameters for vehicle dynamics. However the estimation of these values is not presented within the context of this work. Two low cost data acquisition systems were designed in-house with two different Arduino platforms. However these fell short of data acquisition performance requirements required for realistic driving applications. It was seen that the Arduino family, low-end microprocessors, were not the best choice for applications of this nature. Finally electronic improvements such as the usage of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) is discussed and suggested for future works.