Preliminary Implementation of Model-Based Algorithms for Truck Tire Characterizations from Outdoor Sessions

The tire behavior optimization is crucial for the definition of the best setup of the whole vehicle; in fact, its interface with the ground is constituted by the sum of small surfaces in which tire-road interaction forces are exchanged. The fundamental role that in the last years tires have played in automotive industry and the growing need to reproduce with a high level of detail the phenomena concerning with vehicle dynamics have given a strong impulse to the research in the field of vehicle systems and modelling.