Project

The project will contribute to the design of an Active Safety Function which avoids or mitigates the consequent collisions after the first collision in multiple-events accidents. Current Electronic Stability Control (ESC) systems are well developed for the control of vehicle yaw motions on road surfaces but are not are not designed to counteract sudden disturbances that can arise from curb contacts, impacts with guardrails, lane-edge drop offs, or minor vehicle impacts. Improvements to current ESC systems are ongoing, but special attention to sudden and short duration disturbances may be difficult for sensor and control strategies to detect and analyze. In addition, these sudden disturbances may need other vehicle control inputs such as steering, to work in conjunction with the brake based ESC system.