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A new, long-term initiative at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) is advancing the Center's automotive engineering graduate research and education program. It positions graduates ahead of the competition for jobs and automotive industry leadership. Called “Deep Orange,” for its commitment to Clemson-style competitiveness, this framework immerses students at the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center (CGEC), which houses the automotive engineering master's and doctoral degree programs, in the world of a future OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and supplier. Students, faculty and industry partners engineer and manufacture a new vehicle prototype each year (in overlapping two-year development cycles), giving the students hands-on experience with vehicle design, development, prototyping and production planning from their first day at CGEC until graduation.

Rollover prevention is now part of complete vehicle stability control systems for many vehicles. Given that rollover is predominantly associated with vehicles with high centers of gravity, the targeted vehicles for rollover protection include medium and heavy duty commercial vehicles. Unfortunately, the chassis designs of these vehicles are often so compliant in torsion that the ends of the vehicles may have significantly different roll responses at any given time. The potential need to assess and correct for the roll behavior of the front and rear ends of the vehicle is the subject of this paper. Most rollover mitigation research to date has used rigid chassis assumptions in modeling the vehicle. This paper deals with the roll control of vehicles with torsionally flexible chassis based on a yaw-correction system.