I-Corps: Intelligent Tire System

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于其改善道路运输安全的能力。根据联邦公路管理局的数据，大约22%的撞车事故与天气有关，其中73%与潮湿的路面有关。 在过去的二十年里，轮胎和汽车行业一直在不断地解决监测轮胎健康、磨损和滑水潜力以及路面状况的需求。这种智能轮胎系统的进步具有通过直接预测这些参数并向车载先进底盘控制系统提供更准确的信息来增强运输系统的安全性和可靠性的潜力。这项技术有可能被安装在全球道路上所有车辆的所有轮胎上。这个I-Corps项目将探索智能轮胎系统的商业潜力。该创新系统可以实时预测轮胎压力，监测轮胎健康状况、磨损、滑水潜力，并提供路面摩擦潜力。实施有效的智能轮胎系统将大大增加路面摩擦潜力的知识，从而通过允许汽车控制系统对变化的道路条件作出反应来减少事故的数量。智能轮胎系统的一个重要特点是大大提高了轮胎-路面接触摩擦潜力的预测。 由于智能轮胎可以成为主动底盘控制系统的一部分，因此该系统可以很容易地与现有的车辆技术以及未来的智能交通系统集成。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is in its ability to improve the road transportation safety. According to Federal Highway Administration, approximately 22% of crashes are weather-related and 73% of those are related to wet pavement. The need to monitor tire health, wear and hydroplaning potential and the road surface condition has been continuously addressed by tire and automotive industry over the past two decades. Advancement of this intelligent tire system has the potential for enhancing the safety and reliability of the transportation system by directly predicting these parameters and providing more accurate information to the on-board advanced chassis control systems. This technology has the potential to be installed on all tires of all vehicles on the roads globally.This I-Corps project will explore the commercial potential of an intelligent tire system. This innovative system can, in real-time, predict tire pressure and monitor tire health, wear, hydroplaning potential, and provide the road surface friction potential. Implementation of efficient intelligent tire systems will greatly increase knowledge of the road surface friction potential, thereby reducing the number of accidents by allowing the automobile control system to react to varying road conditions. One important feature of the intelligent tire system is to greatly improve the prediction of tire-road contact friction potential. Because intelligent tires can be part of the active chassis control system, this system can potentially be easily integrated with existing vehicle technologies as well as future intelligent transportation systems.