I-Corps: Intelligent Tire System

这个i-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于它有能力改善道路运输安全。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致力于监测轮胎健康、磨损和滑水潜力以及路面状况的需要。这种智能轮胎系统的发展，通过直接预测这些参数，为车载先进的底盘控制系统提供更准确的信息，有可能提高运输系统的安全性和可靠性。这项技术有可能安装在全球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。这一创新的系统可以实时预测轮胎压力，监测轮胎的健康、磨损、滑水潜力，并提供路面摩擦潜力。高效智能轮胎系统的实施将大大增加对路面摩擦潜力的了解，从而使汽车控制系统能够对不同的路况做出反应，从而减少事故数量。智能轮胎系统的一个重要特点是极大地提高了轮胎与路面接触摩擦势的预测。由于智能轮胎可以成为主动底盘控制系统的一部分，该系统可能很容易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.