Real-time multiple-model estimation of centre of gravity position in automotive vehicles

Vehicle System Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 763-788

  Solmaz, Selim ^a   Akar, Mehmet ^b   Shorten, Robert ^a   Kalkkuhl, Jens ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Centre of gravity estimation; Multiple models; Rollover; Switched systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTORS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SENSORS; STANDARDS;

AUTOMOTIVE SENSORS; AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLES; CENTRE OF GRAVITY (CG); ESTIMATION RESULTS; LINEAR LEAST SQUARES (LLS); MULTIPLE MODEL ESTIMATION (MME); MULTIPLE MODELING; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION; ROLL DYNAMICS; SENSOR DATA; SPORT UTILITY VEHICLE (SUV); VEHICLE MODELLING;

VEHICLES;

EID: 47749103402     PISSN: 00423114     EISSN: 17445159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00423110701602670     Document Type: Article

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