The Methods of Evaluation the Mobility of Off - Road Vehicles

Abstract:

The paper presents issues related to the evaluation methods of mobility engineering machinery. The issue of mobility is particularly important in terms of tasks and rescue evacuation during disasters and military applications. Currently used methods in evaluation of mobility are manual and they mainly serve to determine the accessibility of terrain for standard vehicles and the usefulness of those methods to access the mobility of special army vehicles is limited. Therefore there is a need to work out own methods to access the mobility of army vehicles in the inaccessible terrain.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 180)
• Pages: 355-365
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.180.355
• Online since: November 2011
• Authors: Piotr Sprawka
• Keywords: All-Terrain Vehicles, Engineering Machinery, Mobility, Passable Terrain, Terrain

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