About the prediction of all-terrain vehicles rollover

In this communication, a bibliographical review of existing criteria leading to evaluate the risk of rollover for wheeled vehicles is proposed. This gives a general overview of the problem of the attitude stability and the practical way to manage it. These criteria may be classified in two sets, the former being only concerned with static solutions and the latter including dynamic concepts. In both cases, the computation of the criterion needs values of variables that must be either directly measured or indirectly estimated by state observers based upon suitable models. This review results thus into lists of sensors and a priori knowledge necessary to evaluate the risk criterion. This analysis opens the way to algorithms aiming to evaluate and even forecast the risk of rollover.