Rollover warning for articulated heavy vehicles based on a time-to-rollover metric

Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 406-414

  Chen, Bo Chiuan ^a   Peng, Huei ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATED HEAVY VEHICLES; STEERING PATTERNS; TIME-TO-ROLLOVER (TTR) METRIC; VEHICLE ROLL ANGLE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STEERING;

VEHICLES;

EID: 25444527764     PISSN: 00220434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1988340     Document Type: Review

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