Investigation into rollover prevention using esc
Bibliographic entry
Savitski, D. Investigation into rollover prevention using esc / D. Savitski, A. Snitkou, U. Sarachan // International congress of heavy vehicles, road trains and urban transport, 06-09 October 2010: book of papers / Belarussian national technical university, Academic automative association, International federation of automative engineering societies. – Minsk: BNTU, 2010. – P. 47-51.
Abstract
This paper describes vehicle’s roll dynamics and opportunities to prevent rollover and to increase lateral stability for buses. During aggressive steering maneuvers tire lateral forces may exceed certain thresholds. It may cause losing of control and as a result to rollover accident. To enhance dynamic stability and increase driver’s and passenger safety high percent of manufacturers equips their vehicles with Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems. Such systems have possibility to control lateral forces using brake system and controlling vehicle's traction and to prevent rollover. The paper contains review of vehicle’s dynamic control systems, vehicle roll dynamics and its realization in MATLAB, simulation results and their analysis are considered.