Parasitic Monitoring of Road Constructions: Setting Up and Implementing a New System for Pavement-Tyre Friction

Tyre-pavement friction influences transport safety, particularly in autonomous vehicles (AVs), where real-time friction estimation impacts critical decisions (e.g., stopping, changing lanes, and deceleration rate). Despite this, there is a lack of methods to have low cost and continuous monitoring....

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Main Authors: Alessia Lazzaro, Massimo Merenda, Filippo Giammaria Pratico
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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Filippo Giammaria Pratico
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description Tyre-pavement friction influences transport safety, particularly in autonomous vehicles (AVs), where real-time friction estimation impacts critical decisions (e.g., stopping, changing lanes, and deceleration rate). Despite this, there is a lack of methods to have low cost and continuous monitoring. Consequently, this study proposes a novel system to continuously provide on-board microprocessors with updated estimates of tyre-pavement friction as a function of pavement, tyre, meteorological, and driving conditions. To this end, the following main tasks were carried out: 1) In task 1, the problem was modelled, and high-level equations to satisfy were set up for both AVs and human-driven vehicles (HDVs). 2) In task 2, a framework was set up to solve friction-related issues considering critical scenarios involving unconnected vehicles. 3) In task 3, a solution to continuously estimate tyre-pavement friction for AVs and HDVs was set up, and the consequences for connected and cooperative vehicles were analysed and modelled. 4) In task 4, the following conclusions were derived: A) The system herein set up and implemented has outstanding characteristics in terms of small cost. B) It allows for quasi-continuous monitoring of pavement friction, and both long-term and short-term changes can be detected. C) Both points are crucial due to the limitations of common friction monitoring systems in achieving high sampling frequencies. Future research will focus on increasing the number of sets of braking manoeuvres and on the optimisation of the hardware and software of the system to add to the existing onboard system.
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spelling doaj-art-cd74767dcde9407eb38ddb50fde53c0d2025-08-20T03:24:36ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113953589537810.1109/ACCESS.2025.357499611017630Parasitic Monitoring of Road Constructions: Setting Up and Implementing a New System for Pavement-Tyre FrictionAlessia Lazzaro0https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7984-0016Massimo Merenda1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3668-8014Filippo Giammaria Pratico2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3576-7976Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyHWA srl—Spin-off UNIRC, Reggio Calabria, ItalyDepartment of Information Engineering, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy (DIIES), University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ItalyTyre-pavement friction influences transport safety, particularly in autonomous vehicles (AVs), where real-time friction estimation impacts critical decisions (e.g., stopping, changing lanes, and deceleration rate). Despite this, there is a lack of methods to have low cost and continuous monitoring. Consequently, this study proposes a novel system to continuously provide on-board microprocessors with updated estimates of tyre-pavement friction as a function of pavement, tyre, meteorological, and driving conditions. To this end, the following main tasks were carried out: 1) In task 1, the problem was modelled, and high-level equations to satisfy were set up for both AVs and human-driven vehicles (HDVs). 2) In task 2, a framework was set up to solve friction-related issues considering critical scenarios involving unconnected vehicles. 3) In task 3, a solution to continuously estimate tyre-pavement friction for AVs and HDVs was set up, and the consequences for connected and cooperative vehicles were analysed and modelled. 4) In task 4, the following conclusions were derived: A) The system herein set up and implemented has outstanding characteristics in terms of small cost. B) It allows for quasi-continuous monitoring of pavement friction, and both long-term and short-term changes can be detected. C) Both points are crucial due to the limitations of common friction monitoring systems in achieving high sampling frequencies. Future research will focus on increasing the number of sets of braking manoeuvres and on the optimisation of the hardware and software of the system to add to the existing onboard system.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11017630/Dynamics-based methodmicrocontrollerOBDIIpavement-tyre friction coefficientreal-time estimation
spellingShingle Alessia Lazzaro
Massimo Merenda
Filippo Giammaria Pratico
Parasitic Monitoring of Road Constructions: Setting Up and Implementing a New System for Pavement-Tyre Friction
IEEE Access
Dynamics-based method
microcontroller
OBDII
pavement-tyre friction coefficient
real-time estimation
title Parasitic Monitoring of Road Constructions: Setting Up and Implementing a New System for Pavement-Tyre Friction
title_full Parasitic Monitoring of Road Constructions: Setting Up and Implementing a New System for Pavement-Tyre Friction
title_fullStr Parasitic Monitoring of Road Constructions: Setting Up and Implementing a New System for Pavement-Tyre Friction
title_full_unstemmed Parasitic Monitoring of Road Constructions: Setting Up and Implementing a New System for Pavement-Tyre Friction
title_short Parasitic Monitoring of Road Constructions: Setting Up and Implementing a New System for Pavement-Tyre Friction
title_sort parasitic monitoring of road constructions setting up and implementing a new system for pavement tyre friction
topic Dynamics-based method
microcontroller
OBDII
pavement-tyre friction coefficient
real-time estimation
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11017630/
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