System and method for predicting vibration of bicycle when being rode on road

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12014123-B2
Application number	US-202117159176-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 27, 2021
Priority date	Nov 22, 2018
Publication date	Jun 18, 2024
Grant date	Jun 18, 2024

Abstract

The disclosure discloses a system and method for predicting a vibration of a bicycle when being rode on a road. The method first uses a pressure film to obtain a contact interface between a road and a bicycle tire, and then, based on the contact interface, a unit bearing area (Bu) and an average stress peak distance (Spa) are calculated. Next, taking the above parameters as variables, a predicted vibration value (Pv) is calculated based on calculation formulas provided by the present disclosure. Finally, the predicted vibration value Pv is compared with a comfort-level threshold perceived by a cyclist of the present disclosure, which can quickly and effectively grade and predict a comfort level when riding a bicycle on a section of an asphalt road.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for predicting a vibration of a bicycle when being rode on a road, applied to a system for predicting the vibration of the bicycle,
wherein the system comprises:
a support frame arranged on the road and configured to support a rear wheel of the bicycle in such a manner that the rear wheel of the bicycle is off ground;
a fixing belt configured to fix spokes of a front wheel and a front fork of the bicycle to prevent the front wheel from rotating during a test;
a level bubble installed onto the front fork of the bicycle;
an infrared thermal camera arranged on the road and configured to measure a surface temperature of the road in a road test zone;
a humidity sensor configured to measure a surface relative humidity of the road in the road test zone; and
a pressure film arranged in the road test zone, wherein the front wheel of the bicycle is pressed against the pressure film at beginning of the test,

wherein the method comprises:
a step S 1 of removing sundries covering a surface of a tested asphalt road;
a step S 2 of measuring the surface temperature of the road in the road test zone by the infrared thermal camera and measuring the relative surface humidity of the road by the humidity sensor;
a step S 3 of placing the rear wheel of the bicycle onto the support frame and fixing the spokes of the front wheel and the front fork of the bicycle together by the fixing belt to avoid a deviation generated during the test;
a step S 4 of cutting the pressure film into a required dimension and arranging the pressure film steadily at a test point in such a manner that the pressure film is not in contact with a front tire of the bicycle and the front tire of the bicycle is next to the pressure film before the test starts;
a step S 5 of first straddling, by a tester, the bicycle and adjusting an angle of the front tire of the bicycle by observing the level bubble; and then placing, by the tester, the front tire of the bicycle onto the pressure film vertically when it is determined that the front tire of the bicycle is perpendicular to the road;
a step S 6 of sitting, by the tester, on a saddle of the bicycle, and keeping a test state stable for a specified period;
a step S 7 of removing, by a cyclist, the front tire of the bicycle, and taking away the pressure film and saving the pressure film in a dark environment; and repeating the step S 1 through the step S 7 to measure at least three pressure films at different positions of each tested road section, and then ending an outdoor test;
a step S 8 of digitizing each of the obtained pressure films through a scanner with a scanning mode of a grayscale mode, wherein information recorded by the pressure film in the grayscale mode is converted into a grayscale value ranging from 1 to 255, and a scanning quality is greater than or equal to 600*600 dpi;
a step S 9 of determining a unit pixel area of each of the digitized pressure films based on Formula 1;

R
p

=

w
×
l

p
w

×

p
l

,

Formula
⁢

⁢
1

where Rp represents an area of one pixel of the digitized pressure film in a real world and has a unit of mm 2 , w and l respectively represent a width and a length of the pressure film in the real world and have a unit of mm, and p w and p l respectively represent a number of pixels in a direction of the width of the digitized pressure film and a number of pixels in a direction of the length of the digitized pressure film;
a step S 10 of calculating an average bearing area B u , wherein the average bearing area B w is defined as a ratio of a contact area A c to a number n k of granular contact regions in a contact interface recorded by each of the digitized pressure films; and first, the contact area A c between the road and a bicycle tire is calculated based on Formula 2, and then the average bearing area B u is calculated based on Formula 3:

A
c

=

p
×

R
p

;
and

Formula
⁢

⁢
2

B
u

=

A
c

n
k

,

Formula
⁢

⁢
3

where p represents a total number of pixels of each of the digitized pressure film whose grayscale is not equal to 255, and n k represents a number of regions of the digitized pressure film which are distributed in a granular manner;
a step S 11 of calculating an average stress peak distance Sp a , wherein five grayscale value distribution curves are extracted from each of the digitized pressure films along a forward riding direction by using digital image analysis software, and each of the five grayscale value distribution curves is subjected to a lowpass filtering to improve precision for recognizing a stress peak; according to an inverse correspondence between a grayscale value and a stress value, a grayscale valley corresponds to a stress peak; and the five grayscale value distribution curves are taken every 0.5 cm along a width direction of an image, the average stress peak distance Sp a of each of the five grayscale value distribution curves is calculated based on Formula 4, and an average value of the calculated Sp a of the five grayscale value distribution curves is reserved,

Assignees

• Changan Univ

Inventors

• Sha Aimin
• Gao Jie
• Luan Bo
• Hu Liqun
• Jiang Wei

Classifications

• G01J5/00

  Radiation pyrometry, e.g. infrared or optical thermometry · CPC title

• G01J2005/0077

  Imaging · CPC title

• Y02T90/00

  Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation · CPC title

• G01H17/00

  Measuring mechanical vibrations or ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves, not provided for in the other groups of this subclass · CPC title

• G01M17/02

  Tyres · CPC title