Tire tread deformation sensor and energy harvester development for "smart tire" applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6529 PART 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Moon, Kee S ^a   Liang, Hong ^b   Yi, Jingang ^a   Mika, Bartek ^b  

^a UTC Aerospace Systems   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformation; Energy harvesting; PMN PT; PVDF; Tire road friction

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; PNEUMATIC TIRES; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES (PVDF); ROAD FRICTION;

DEFORMATION; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FREQUENCY BANDS; MASS TRANSPORTATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TIRES;

MICROSENSORS;

EID: 35548961388     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.721009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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