%0 Journal Article
%T Quadratic evaluation of the stability domain and experimental validation of the behaviour of an articulated vehicle
%J Proceedings: International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles
%D 1992
%A Khan, M.
%A Bourassa, P.
%A Marcos, B.
%A Payre, G.
%A Ratte, S.
%V 1992
%N 
%P 338-343
%X 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.<p />
%G 
%I National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
%@ 
%U http://dx.doi.org/