Speaker interviews
Conference interview: Michelin’s algorithms for tire predictive maintenance solutions
Jérémy Vayssettes & Hélène Bathias - Michelin
What is your presentation about?
To provide services that satisfy car makers’ expectations, Michelin is developing a complete offer around algorithms based on vehicle data. In this presentation, we will focus on algorithms for tire predictive maintenance and related use cases focused on car makers’ needs. The algorithms developed by Michelin are sensorless, brand agnostic and easy to deploy. We will illustrate why Michelin has chosen this approach and what the benefits are for customers.
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Sumitomo Rubber Industries’ Tetsuya Maeakwa reveals how the company’s new Active Tread technology benefits autonomous vehicles and sustainability
Tetsuya Maeakwa - Sumitomo Rubber Industries
What is your presentation about?
My presentation will focus on Active Tread, which is Sumitomo’s innovative concept for the future mobile society. SRI is launching the first Active Tread product line, which is a new technology for autonomous vehicles that promotes the establishment of a sustainable society. SRI will help to establish safety in the autonomous vehicle society by using Active Tread compounds. These enable the physical properties to actively switch to the optimized state in all weather conditions. The switchable performance makes it possible to eliminate the concept of border in the different tire categories.
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Dalia Broggi, scientific project manager, European Commission
Dalia Broggi - European Commission
What is your presentation about?
A new amendment to UNECE Regulation 117 introduces requirements for wet grip of worn tyres to assess tire performances at the end of their life. For type approval, artificially worn tires are generated by mechanically removing tread material (i.e. buffing). To assess how well a buffed tire replicates a naturally worn tire, we tested four tire models comparing new, naturally and artificially worn samples of each model. We carried out the regulatory test and other representative dynamic maneuvers.
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Anke Blume, University of Twente
Prof. Anke Blume - University of Twente
What will your presentation be about?
Functionalized SBR is widely used for modern passenger car tire tread compounds. The functional groups are introduced in a silica/silane-filled SSBR to enhance the polymer-filler interactions. However, what kind of reactions take place in the compound in the presence of the functionalized SBR were not clarified yet. In this study, different possible interaction/coupling reactions in a silica/silane compound with functionalized SBRs were investigated.
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