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OwnerXiaoling HAN, Todd B. SKINNER +2inventors
InventorsXiaoling HAN, Todd B. SKINNER, Chiyu ZHANG, Yu-Ju HSU
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Techniques are described for monitoring tire conditions on an autonomous vehicle, more specifically, an autonomous truck that includes a tractor unit and a trailer. An example autonomous vehicle includes a tractor unit configured to be coupled to a trailer that comprises multiple tires. The autonomous vehicle may also include one or more infrared sensors. At least part of the one or more infrared sensors is positioned at a rear side of the tractor unit and faced towards the trailer. The one or more infrared sensors are configured to capture one or more heatmaps each representing a temperature distribution of a tire. The one or more infrared sensors are in communication with a control system that is configured to receive the temperature distribution from the one or more infrared sensors, determine a tire condition of the tire, and operate the tractor unit according to the tire condition.
An autonomous vehicle, comprising:
A method for monitoring tire health of an autonomous vehicle comprising a tractor unit, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-storage medium having process-executable code that, upon execution by one or more processors of an autonomous vehicle, causes the autonomous vehicle to implement a method comprising:
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