Knowing vehicle sideslip angle accurately is critical for active safety systems such as Electronic Stability Control (ESC). Vehicle sideslip angle can be measured through optical speed sensors, or dual-antenna GPS. These measurement systems are costly (~$5k to $100k), which prohibits wide adoption of such systems. This paper demonstrates that the vehicle sideslip angle can be estimated in real-...

Real-life crashes with cars fitted with on-board crash pulse recorders were used to study the influence of their collision partner, in both twoand single-vehicle crashes, on crash severity and injury risk. The crash severity was lower in single-vehicle crashes compared with two-vehicle crashes. Both average change of velocity and mean acceleration were lower and average pulse duration was longe...

This work describes the development and the application of a computer-based vehicle simulator. Such real-time simulation software is currently used in our Department as a tool for optimizing the design of a racing car, namely a single-seat vehicle for the SAE-ATA formula. Being based on our custom multibody library Chrono::Engine, the vehicle simulator exploits a recent formulation founded on v...

Aerospace vehicle design includes several disciplines with often-conflicting requirements. A formal system design framework is developed in this research where the designer coordinates with disciplinary experts to find an overall optimized design while simultaneously optimizing disciplinary objectives. The overall system objective function chosen in the preliminary design is minimum production ...