New Indirect Tire Pressure Monitoring System Enabled by Adaptive Extended Kalman Filtering of Vehicle Suspension Systems

This paper presents a new indirect tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) based on adaptive extended Kalman filtering with unknown input (AEKF-UI) estimation of vehicle suspension systems. The suggested methodology is based on the explicit correlation between tire pressure and tire stiffness and is available in real time. AEKF-UI is used to simultaneously estimate the time-varying parameter (tire stiffness) of vehicle suspension systems and the road roughness using an unknown input estimator. Simulation studies demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can simultaneously estimate tire stiffness (i.e., tire inflation pressure) variation and unknown road roughness input. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed estimation algorithm are verified through a laboratory-level experiment. This study offers a potential application for an alternative indirect TPMS and the estimation of unknown road roughness used for automotive controller design.

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