Physically Interpretable Modeling of Tire Effective Rolling Radius and Vertical Load via Hierarchical SINDy
摘要
This study presents a data-driven approach to derive physically interpretable equations for tire vertical load and effective rolling radius (ERR) using data measured by an intelligent tire. Conventional estimation methods suffer from the model uncertainty of vehicle dynamics models or the lack of physical interpretability in artificial intelligence-based black-box models. To overcome these issues, this study introduces a hierarchical modeling strategy utilizing the SINDy (Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics). First, the difficult-to-measure vertical load is modeled as a hidden variable, which is then integrated into ERR. Experimental evaluation on a Flat-trac test rig demonstrates that the proposed method achieves high accuracy (R² = 0.983, RMSE = 0.10 mm). The main contribution of this work is in overcoming the limitations of black-box models by deriving physically interpretable equations directly from data, thereby enhancing the reliability and explainability of tire dynamics estimation.