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Automotive Engineering ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 1207-1218.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2025.06.019

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Intelligent Tire Wear Detection Method Based on an Embedded Sensor Array Within the Tire

Lisheng Jin1,Xin Zhao1,Xianyi Xie1(),Hao Yang1,Bo Lu2,Mingliang Song2,Baicang Guo1,Yaoguang Cao3   

  1. 1.School of Vehicle and Energy,Yanshan University,Qinhuangdao 066004
    2.Shandong Linglong Tire Co. ,Ltd. ,Yantai 265406
    3.School of Transportation Science and Engineering,Beihang University,Beijing 100191
  • Received:2024-10-16 Revised:2024-12-10 Online:2025-06-25 Published:2025-06-20
  • Contact: Xianyi Xie E-mail:xiexianyi@ysu.edu.cn

Abstract:

In order to fully utilize the advantages of embedded integrated sensor arrays in smart tires for collecting multi-modal information of the tire-ground contact state, and to enhance the accuracy of tire wear detection, a smart tire wear detection method based on the embedded sensor array is proposed in this paper. Firstly, a sensor array composed of accelerometers and PVDF piezoelectric film sensors is constructed, and an embedded data acquisition system for the smart tire is designed to collect sensor array data from tires with various degrees of wear under different operating conditions. Next, the waveform data from the sensor array is processed using Butterworth filtering, and multidimensional time-domain features are extracted. The variations in the time-domain characteristics of the sensor array data are analyzed under changing vehicle operating conditions, revealing significant differences in the time-domain feature variations (length features and area features) of the accelerometer and PVDF piezoelectric film sensors with the change of vehicle speed and vertical load. Finally, a joint feature set that integrates the time-domain feature information from both types of sensors is established, and a machine learning model for tire wear detection is constructed. The test results show that the average absolute error of tire wear detection based on the sensor array is 0.13 mm, a reduction of 67.67% and 56.81%, respectively, compared to using only the accelerometer or only the PVDF piezoelectric film sensor. The detection accuracy of tire wear within a 0.3 mm error reaches 88.81%, while the accuracy within a 0.5 mm error reaches 96.42, which proves the effectiveness and accuracy of the machine learning model for tire wear detection based on the sensor array.

Key words: intelligent tire, sensor array, wear detection, machine learning