CAN Newsletter

September 2014: Applications

• Coverstory
  
  • Mechanical assistants with embedded CAN networks
    For farmers the day usually starts at 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning. They have to look after their cattle, feeding and milking them. Until now: Thanks to a milking robot, the cows milk and feed themselves
• Applications
  
  • Loop detectors for traffic light systems
  • Lock and load: LEVs for public infrastructures
  • TWK: Stability of mobile construction machines
• System design
  
  • University of Vaasa: CANopen in the frontline of openness
• Tools
  
  • Vector: Tips and tricks for the use of CAPL (part 2)
  • ATI: Decoding data from a vehicle's CAN network
  • PLS: CAN as trace source
  • Vector: CAN FD - Measuring and reprogramming
• Devices
  
  • TTControl: Implementing CANopen Safety I/O modules
  • Hilscher: Combining Ethernet and CANopen
• Business
  
  • CiA in Poland: only a few members