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Sensing Systems in Intelligent Tires

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Herein, various underlying technologies for tire condition monitoring systems (TCMSs) are briefly studied. The technologies that can be implemented in tire systems for sensing and energy harvesting are booming. In this chapter, the mainstream technologies reported to handle the above-mentioned applications are briefly described.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Jilin, China

    Nan Xu

  2. Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Hassan Askari & Amir Khajepour

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Xu, N., Askari, H., Khajepour, A. (2022). Sensing Systems in Intelligent Tires. In: Intelligent Tire Systems. Synthesis Lectures on Advances in Automotive Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10268-4_3

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