The tire as an intelligent sensor

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 941-955

  Ergen, Sinem Coleri ^a   Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Alberto ^b   Sun, Xuening ^b   Tebano, Riccardo ^c   Alalusi, Sayf ^d   Audisio, Giorgio ^c   Sabatini, Marco ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Pirelli Labs SpA   (Italy)

^d TransRobotics   (United States)

Author keywords

Automotive safety; Energy efficiency; Energy scavenging; Heterogeneous systems; Intelligent systems; Platform based design; Tires; Ultrawideband; Wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY; ENERGY SCAVENGING; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; PLATFORM-BASED DESIGN; WIRELESS SENSORS;

COORDINATION REACTIONS; DESIGN; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FRICTION; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSORY AIDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SMART SENSORS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TIRES; TRIBOLOGY;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 67650859659     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2009.2022879     Document Type: Article

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