Mitigation of jack-knifing

Abstract

A computer system has processing circuitry to provide, in response to an indication that, for a vehicle combination comprising a tractor having a front axle, a first rear axle, and a second rear axle longitudinally further away from the front axle than the first rear axle is, and a trailer coupled to the tractor with a fifth-wheel coupling, a risk of jack-knifing is higher than a predefined threshold risk, an instruction to operate at least one actuator comprised in the tractor to redistribute a total axle load of the tractor in such a way that a first rear axle load on the first rear axle of the tractor is decreased and a second rear axle load on the second rear axle of the tractor is increased.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.