University of Cambridge

I was a research student in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1996 until 2000. I worked on the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium's project Maximising Roll-over Stability of Heavy Road Vehicles, specialising in vehicle dynamics simulation and control system design, under the supervision of Dr David Cebon. I graduated with the degree of Ph.D. in 2001.

Research overview

The roll-over of heavy vehicles is an important road safety problem worldwide. Active roll control systems consisting of active anti-roll bars can significantly improve the roll stability of single unit and articulated heavy vehicles.

Publications

Theses and reports

D. J. M. Sampson
Active Roll Control of Articulated Heavy Vehicles, Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, UK, 2000.
D. J. M. Sampson
Active Roll Control of Articulated Heavy Vehicles, Technical Report CUED/C-MECH/TR 82, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, 2002.

Articles

D. J. M. Sampson, D. Cebon
"Achievable Roll Stability of Heavy Road Vehicles", IMechE J. Automobile Engineering, 217(4):269-287, 2003.
D. J. M. Sampson, D. Cebon
"Active Roll Control of Single Unit Heavy Road Vehicles", Vehicle System Dynamics, 40(4):229-270, 2003.
An article on active roll control of long combination vehicles is in preparation at present.

Conference proceedings

D. J. M. Sampson, B. P. Jeppesen, D. Cebon
"The Development of an Active Roll Control System for Heavy Vehicles", Proc. 6th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions, Saskatoon, Canada, 2000.
D. J. M. Sampson, G. McKevitt, D. Cebon
"The Development of an Active Roll Control System for Heavy Vehicles", Proc. 16th IAVSD Symposium on the Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks, Pretoria, South Africa, 1999.
D. J. M. Sampson, D. Cebon
"An Investigation of Roll Control System Design for Articulated Heavy Vehicles", Proc. 4th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control, Nagoya, Japan, 1998.

Bibliography

The bibliography from my thesis is available online (BiBTeX, 41 KB).

Current work

In 2021, MathWorks joined the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium and the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, and is sponsoring the project Minimum CO₂ Urban Delivery Vehicles. In this project, the Cambridge team is working on improving the manoeuvrability of electric delivery vehicles using torque-actuated steering, in order to enable significant reductions in emissions per payload.