Systems and methods for neural ordinary differential equation learned tire models

Abstract

System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to NODE learned tire models. In one embodiment, a method includes calculating estimated tire forces based on vehicle measurements; solving a second order differential equation in a repetitive manner until an error calculation based on a tire force function and the estimated tire forces reaches a minimum value, by: using a first predictive model to provide one or more inflection points and initial conditions based on the vehicle measurements, using a second and third predictive model to act as, respectively, exponents to a positive and a negative exponential equation based on the one or more inflection points, the initial conditions, and the vehicle measurements, and integrating the exponential equations to obtain the tire force function; and applying the tire force function to new vehicle measurements to estimate current tire forces.