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- Title
Indirect Estimation of Tire Pressure on Several Road Pavements via Interacting Multiple Model Approach.
- Authors
Brancati, Renato; Tufano, Francesco
- Abstract
Generally, tire deflation results in a decrease in both handling performance and tire lifetime, and in fuel consumption increment. Therefore, the real-time knowledge of the pressure is important. Direct approaches via pressure sensors mounted on the rim of each tire are not practical, due to technical and economic reasons. Cost-effective solutions with real-time estimation of tire pressure are generally less accurate and reliable than direct ones. Dynamical estimators based on a suspension model need road surface topology information to compute disturbances on the suspension system as an input, which is typically unknown. This paper proposes an innovative approach to estimate tire pressure indirectly, without actual road surface roughness information. A vertical suspension dynamic model is used to build several unscented Kalman filters, parametrised around different road surface topologies. These estimators are combined following the Interacting Multiple Model approach, which gives an acceptable estimation of tire stiffness through a weighted average obtained from a probabilistic model. A known linear static relationship between the tire stiffness and inflation pressure is utilized to indirectly estimate the tire inflation pressure. A Monte Carlo analysis has been performed on a wide range of driving scenarios and vehicle manoeuvres. The results of the estimation have been compared to those of a single unscented Kalman filter, in order to validate the effectiveness of the proposed solution and to highlight the improved performances in monitoring tire pressure.
- Subjects
MONTE Carlo method; PERFORMANCE of tires; KALMAN filtering; PAVEMENTS; PRESSURE sensors; TIRES
- Publication
Machines, 2022, Vol 10, Issue 12, p1221
- ISSN
2075-1702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/machines10121221