Citation

Khan M, Bourassa P, Marcos B, Payre G, Ratte S. Proc. Int. Tech. Conf. Enhanced Safety Vehicles 1992; 1992: 338-343.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, In public domain, Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

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Abstract

In this work, the dynamic stability of non linear system representing tractor semitrailer vehicles is studied on the base of a qualitative problem approach. Starting with a small resticted stability domain obtained by using the Hamiltonian of the system as an initial Lyapunov function, and following a direct search procedure with the unconstrained minimization technique (S.U.M.T.), the stability domain of this vehicle system was successfully maximised for quadratic type Lyapunov functions and for the proposed search method.