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Vehicle rollover accidents have been a serious safety problem for
the last three decades. Although rollovers are a small percentage
of all traffic accidents, they do account for a large proportion of
severe and fatal injuries. Specifically, some large passenger
vehicles, such as large vans, pickup trucks, and sport utility
vehicles, are more prone to rollover accidents with a high center
of gravity (CG) and narrow track width. Vehicle rollover accidents
may be grouped into two categories: tripped and untripped
rollovers. A tripped rollover commonly occurs when a vehicle skids
and digs its tires into soft soil or hits a tripping mechanism such
as a curb with a sufficiently large lateral velocity. On the other
hand, the untripped rollover is induced by extreme maneuvers during
critical driving situations, such as excessive speed during
cornering, obstacle avoidance, and severe lane change maneuver. In
these situations, the forces at the tire-road contact point are
large enough to cause the vehicle to roll over. Furthermore,
vehicle rollover may occur due to external disturbances such as
side-wind and steering excitation. Therefore, it is necessary to
investigate the dynamic stability and control of tripped and
untripped vehicle rollover so as to avoid vehicle rollover
accidents. In this book, different dynamic models are used to
describe the vehicle rollover under both untripped and special
tripped situations. From the vehicle dynamics theory, rollover
indices are deduced, and the dynamic stabilities of vehicle
rollover are analyzed. In addition, some active control strategies
are discussed to improve the anti-rollover performance of the
vehicle.
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