Articulated wheel loaders used in the construction industry are heavy vehicles and have poor stability and a high rate of accidents because of the unpredictable changes of their body posture, mass and centroid position in complex operation environments. This paper presents a novel distributed multi-sensor system for real-time attitude estimation and stability measurement of articulated wheel lo...

Abstract This article shows that the inability to use monetary policy for macroeconomic stabilization leaves a government more vulnerable rollover crisis. We study sovereign default model with self-fulfilling crises, foreign currency debt, and nominal rigidities. When lacks independence, lenders anticipate would face severe recession in event of liquidity crisis are therefore prone run on bonds...

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The paper presents an application of neural networks to control braking torques on wheels of an articulated vehicle in an untripped rollover manoeuvre. The numerical model of the articulated vehicle and dynamic optimisation were used to calculate appropriate braking torques for each wheel in order to restore stability. The optimisation problem requires the equations of motion to be integrated a...

Most active devices focused on vehicle stability concern on-road cars and cannot be applied satisfactorily in an off-road context, since the variability and the non-linearities of tire/ground contact are often neglected. In previous work, a rollover indicator devoted to light all-terrain vehicles accounting for these phenomena has been proposed. It is based on the prediction of the lateral load...

The electronic stability program (ESP) is increasingly finding acceptance in vans and light commercial vehicles (LCV). Nearly all current models, whose gross vehicle weight is generally between 2.8 and 7.5 metric tons, are now available with this active safety system, either as an option or even as standard equipment. Many studies have now confirmed that ESP can prevent a vehicle from skidding ...

BACKGROUND Polyneuropathy is a complication of diabetes mellitus that has been very challenging for clinicians. It results in high public health costs and has a huge impact on patients' quality of life. Preventive interventions are still the most important approach to avoid plantar ulceration and amputation, which is the most devastating endpoint of the disease. Some therapeutic interventions i...