Accelerometer tyre to estimate the aquaplaning state of the tyre-road contact

Ever increasing amount of Advanced Driver Assisting Systems (ADAS) are being developed to improve the safety of the vehicles. However, the direct information of the tyre-road contact is not available for these systems. An intelligent tyre has been proposed to provide that information in many studies. This paper focuses on water and aquaplaning detection with an intelligent tyre with three triaxial accelerometers attached on the inner liner. A method to detect the tyre-road contact state is introduced and validated with experimental data.