Development of a parsimonious dynamic model of tractor-semitrailers

Heavy Vehicle Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 298-318

  Hyun, Dongyoon ^a   Langari, Reza ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Heavy vehicle stability; Rollover warning and active control; Tractor semitrailers; Vehicle modelling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DAMPING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; TRUCK TRAILERS;

ACTIVE CONTROL ALGORITHMS;

TRACTORS (TRUCK);

EID: 0036459028     PISSN: 13517848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijhvs.2002.001181     Document Type: Article

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