Study on Tractor Semi-Trailer Roll Stability Control

Study on Tractor Semi-Trailer Roll Stability Control

The rollover accidents in the tractor semi-trailer are often fatal and many factors could cause the tractor semitrailer rollover. In this paper, a rollover prevention control method was proposed based on real-time calculation of rollover index. The vehicle Center of Gravity CG height from the ground is an important parameter in the rollover index and it is estimated through lateral acceleration...

Jackknife stability of a tractor semi-trailer combination

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Trailer Steering Control of a Tractor-Trailer Robot

In this paper, we consider active trailer steering control as a means to improve the maneuverability of (long) truck–trailer combinations during cornering. Hereto, we formulate the problem of reducing the so-called swept path width during cornering and that of eliminating unsafe tail swing of the trailer as a tracking control problem. We present a kinematic tractor–trailer model including off-a...

Roll Dynamic Response of an Articulated Vehicle carrying liquids

The directional response and roll stability characteristics of a partly filled tractor semi-trailer vehicle, with cylindrical tank, are investigated in various maneuvers. The dynamic interaction of liquid cargo with the tractor semi-trailer vehicle is also evaluated by integrating a dynamic slosh model of the partly filled tank with five-degrees-of-freedom of a tractor semi-trailer tank mode...

Flow control over a tractor-trailer using vortex generator