Using scaled vehicles to investigate the influence of various properties on rollover propensity

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3381-3386

  Travis, William E ^a   Whitehead, Randy J ^a   Bevly, David M ^a,b   Flowers, George T ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Vehicle Dynamics Lab   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VEHICLES;

ROLLOVER CRASHES; ROLLOVER PROPENSITY; VEHICLE ROLL DYNAMICS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 8744250051     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/acc.2004.1384431     Document Type: Conference Paper

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