TIRE LIFT-OFF PROPENSITY PREDICTIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD

A lift-off propensity predictive system and method is disclosed. The system comprises: a vehicle (10) supported by at least one vehicle tire (12) mounted to a hub, the vehicle tire having a tire cavity (20) and a ground-engaging tread (16), and the tire (12) having a plurality of tire-specific measureable parameters; a tire-affixed tire-identification device (24) for providing a tire-specific identification; a plurality of tire-affixed sensors mounted to the tire (12) for operably measuring the tire-specific parameters and generating tire-specific parameter information; at least one vehicle-affixed sensor mounted to the vehicle for operably measuring vehicle speed (31); a lift-off propensity estimator (42) for operably generating a lift-off propensity for the one vehicle tire (12) from a database containing experimentally-derived, tire-ID specific, lift-off propensities correlated to measured tire-specific parameter information and measured vehicle speed.