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Vehicle Stability Prediction Head: Alonzo Kelly Contact: Alonzo Kelly (alonzo@ri.cmu.edu) Mailing address: National Robotics Engineering Center 10 40th Street Pittsburgh, PA 15201 Associated center: NREC For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - June 2006.

Project Description

NREC pioneered an easy-to-implement solution to a serious but frequently overlooked problem — stability margin estimation as it relates to vehicular rollover and tipover vulnerabilities.

The concrete realization of a “stability margin estimation system” for real-world applications has been elusive — until now. NREC scientists and engineers developed a real-world, effective system to prevent maneuver-induced rollover and tipover.

NREC’s Stability Prediction System (SPS) calculates lateral acceleration as either curvature or speed increase, and when state of motion reaches tipover condition, the system recognizes the situation and stabilizes the vehicle.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Alonzo Kelly	Associate Professor	alonzo@ri.cmu.edu

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• OnLine Stability Margin and Attitude Estimation for Dynamic Articulating Mobile Robots
  A. Diaz-Calderon and A. Kelly
  International Journal of Robotics Research, October, 2005. [Abstract]
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