• DocumentCode
    1536473
  • Title

    Vehicle Rollover Avoidance

  • Author

    Chen, Shih-Ken ; Moshchuk, Nikolai ; Nardi, Flavio ; Ryu, Jihan

  • Author_Institution
    Global Reasearch & Dev. Center, Gen. Motors, LLC, Warren, MI, USA
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    70
  • Lastpage
    85
  • Abstract
    Vehicle rollover is a public safety issue [1]–[3]. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration´s (NHTSA) National Center for Statistics and Analysis, from 1991 to 2001 the number of passenger vehicle occupants killed in all motor vehicle crashes increased 4%, while fatalities in rollover crashes increased 10%. In 2001 alone, 10,138 people died in rollover crashes, a figure that represents 32% of occupant fatalities for the year [4], [5].
  • Keywords
    Acceleration; Accelerometers; Actuators; Road safety; Road vehicles; US Department of Transportation; Vehicle crash testing; Vehicle detection; Vehicle safety; Wheels;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Control Systems, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1066-033X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCS.2010.937004
  • Filename
    5510330