摘要:
A tire wear state estimation system (10) is disclosed. The system comprises a vehicle (14); a tire (12) supporting the vehicle; and a sensor unit (26) being mounted on the tire, the sensor unit including: a footprint centerline length measurement sensor to measure a centerline length of a footprint of the tire; a pressure sensor to measure a pressure of the tire; a temperature sensor to measure a temperature of the tire; and electronic memory capacity for storing identification information for the tire. The system further comprises a processor (36) in electronic communication with the sensor unit (26), the processor being configured for receiving the measured centerline length, the measured pressure, the measured temperature and the identification information; a tire construction database storing tire construction data, the tire construction database being in electronic communication with the processor (36), wherein the identification information is correlated to the tire construction data; and an analysis module (52) being stored on the processor (36) and configured for receiving the measured centerline length, the measured pressure, the measured temperature, the identification information, and the tire construction data as inputs, the analysis module (52) including a prediction model (76) to generate an estimated wear state for the tire (12) from the inputs. Also, a method for estimating the wear state of a tire supporting a vehicle is disclosed.
摘要:
A method for extracting changes in characteristics of a tire (12) supporting a vehicle (14) is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of: extracting selected tire characteristics from at least one sensor (26) mounted on the tire (12); transmitting the selected tire characteristics to a remote processor (36); storing the selected tire characteristics in a historical data login communication with the remote processor (36); selecting at least one tire characteristic of interest; applying a time series decomposition model to data from the historical data log to delineate exogenous inputs from an underlying trend in the selected tire characteristic of interest; applying a learning model to the underlying trend in the selected tire characteristic of interest to model a relationship between the selected tire characteristic of interest and a condition of the tire (12); and outputting from the learning model a prediction value for a condition of the tire (12).
摘要:
A tire wear state estimation system and method is disclosed. The system comprises at least one tire supporting a vehicle; a CAN bus system disposed on the vehicle; and at least one sensor disposed on the vehicle and in electronic communication with the CAN bus system. The at least one sensor is operative to measure selected parameters associated with the vehicle and to communicate data for the selected parameters through the CAN bus system, including a first set of data, a second set of data and a third set of data. The system further comprises a rolling radius estimator operative to receive the first set of data and estimate a rolling radius for the at least one tire; an acceleration slip estimator operative to receive the second set of data and the estimated rolling radius to estimate the slip of the at least one tire during acceleration of the vehicle; a braking slip estimator operative to receive the third set of data and the estimated rolling radius to estimate the slip of the at least one tire during braking of the vehicle; and a tire slip analyzer to correlate the estimation of the slip of the at least one tire during acceleration of the vehicle and the slip of the at least one tire during braking of the vehicle and generate an estimated wear state of the at least one tire.
摘要:
A road classification system und method is disclosed. The system comprises at least one tire (12) supporting a vehicle (10); a tire-mounted sensor (24) operable to measure a tire inflation pressure; a tire-mounted identification tag operable to identify the one tire by an identification code; a tire construction database operable for identifying a tire construction type for the one tire from the identification code; a vehicle-mounted axle vertical acceleration sensor operable to measure an axle vertical acceleration of the vehicle; and a road surface classification model for concluding a road surface condition based on measured changes in the measured axle vertical acceleration of the vehicle and the measured tire inflation pressure and the identified tire construction type.
摘要:
A vehicle control system and method is disclosed. The comprises a vehicle (14) having at least one supportive vehicle tire (18), the vehicle tire (18) having a tire cavity, a ground-engaging tread and a plurality of tire-specific parameters operably affecting at least one control system; a plurality of tire-based sensors mounted to the tire configured for operably sensing tire-specific or tire-derivative information (16); and an adaptive tire model processor configured for operably receiving as inputs the tire-specific or tire-derivative information. The adaptive tire model processor is configured to process the inputs through an adaptive model to substantially continuously generate revisions in real-time to the plurality of tire-specific parameters. The at least one control system is configured to (i) operably modify at least one control system parameter in response to the revisions to the plurality of tire-specific or tire-derivative parameters; and/or to (ii) operably receive and apply in real-time the revisions to the tire-specific performance parameters in the control of the vehicle.
摘要:
A method for estimating a tire state including normal force, lateral force, and longitudinal force on a tire mounted to a wheel and supporting a vehicle is disclosed. The method comprises: accessing a vehicle CAN-bus for vehicle sensor-measured information; equipping the vehicle with a plurality of CAN-bus accessible, vehicle mounted sensors providing by the CAN-bus input sensor data, the input sensor data including acceleration and one or more angular velocities, steering wheel angle measurement, angular wheel speed of the wheel, roll rate, pitch rate, and yaw rate; deploying a normal force estimator operable to estimate a normal force on the tire from a summation of longitudinal load transfer, lateral load transfer and static normal force using as inputs lateral acceleration, longitudinal acceleration and roll angle derived from the input sensor data; deploying a lateral force estimator operable to estimate a lateral force on the tire from a planar vehicle model using as inputs measured lateral acceleration, longitudinal acceleration and yaw rate derived from the input sensor data; and deploying a longitudinal force estimator operable to estimate a longitudinal force on the tire from a wheel rotational dynamics model using as inputs wheel angular speed and drive/brake torque derived from the input sensor data.
摘要:
A tire-based system and method for estimating a radially outward tire surface temperature of a tire supporting a vehicle is disclosed. The system comprises at least one temperature sensor mounted to the tire operative to measure a tire inner liner temperature; and an algorithmic prediction model which is empirically trained to correlate a inner liner tire temperature to a tire radially outward surface temperature; wherein the empirically trained algorithmic prediction model is operative to receive a plurality of model inputs including the tire inner liner temperature and to generate, based upon the tire inner liner temperature, a radially outward tire surface temperature estimation.
摘要:
A tire cornering stiffness estimation system and method is disclosed. The system (10) comprises a vehicle (12) supported by at least one vehicle tire (14) mounted to a hub, the vehicle tire (14) having a tire cavity (22), a ground-engaging tread (16) and a plurality of tire-specific measureable parameters; a plurality of tire-affixed sensors (20) mounted to the tire (14) for operably measuring the tire-specific parameters to generate tire-specific information; at least one accelerometer mounted to the hub and generating a hub accelerometer signal; and a model-based tire cornering stiffness estimator being operable to generate a model-derived tire cornering stiffness estimation (30) based upon the hub accelerometer signal and the tire-specific information or the hub accelerometer signal adapted by the the tire-specific information.
摘要:
A lift-off propensity predictive system and method is disclosed. The system comprises: a vehicle (10) supported by at least one vehicle tire (12) mounted to a hub, the vehicle tire having a tire cavity (20) and a ground-engaging tread (16), and the tire (12) having a plurality of tire-specific measureable parameters; a tire-affixed tire-identification device (24) for providing a tire-specific identification; a plurality of tire-affixed sensors mounted to the tire (12) for operably measuring the tire-specific parameters and generating tire-specific parameter information; at least one vehicle-affixed sensor mounted to the vehicle for operably measuring vehicle speed (31); a lift-off propensity estimator (42) for operably generating a lift-off propensity for the one vehicle tire (12) from a database containing experimentally-derived, tire-ID specific, lift-off propensities correlated to measured tire-specific parameter information and measured vehicle speed.