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Case study: Electric road – The future of transportation

TKE is involved in a Electric road project for the future The future of transportation is electric road. In the future many of the vehicles on our roads will be driven by electricity. TKE is pleased to announce that we are involved in a…

New programmable CAN/CAN FD interface and datalogger

New products

New programmable CAN / CAN FD interface and datalogger is ideal for troubleshooting CAN networks Kvaser AB has introduced a new programmable and dual channel high-speed CAN to USB interface and datalogger that allows users to monitor and log…

CAN physical layer, there is poor tradition in design of physical layer structures for industrial and machinery CAN networks

Physical layer really matters in CAN

Research and publications

Despite of the comprehensive knowledge of the CAN physical layer, there is poor tradition in design of physical layer structures for industrial and machinery CAN networks. Cables with "wrong" impedance (not matching with termination) are commonly…

New Kvaser USB to CAN/CAN FD interfaces

New products

Kvaser has just upgraded it's USB offerings with four new interfaces. Features include high grade performance, more channels, CAN FD compatibility, and, of course, the sleek ergonomic design that Kvaser is known for. Using custom software…

Sponsor of Metropolia Motorsport

News

Metropolia Motorsport Ry is a student driven association that designs and builds each year a formula-type racing car. The team works under Metropolia Highschool and use the schools facitilities. The racing team is cooperating with both…

CANopen safeguards to decrease the effect of residual errors further

Research and publications

In many applications, complex safety add-ons have been designed on top of existing control systems, which has lead to significantly increased complexity and costs. The most significant increase of the performance level can be achieved by replacing…

Systematic re-use of information

Research and publications

Systematic re-use of information and design processes defined by the selected system integration framework, such as CANopen, should be understood as an integral part of companies' design, assembly and service operations, instead of "just another…

Model-based design of CANopen systems

Research and publications

Multiple disciplines for mechatronic system design co-exist, which hinder the utilization of software-oriented modeling principles e.g. UML. Existing modern tools may be integrated into a working tool chain. Model-based design has become…

CANopen in the frontline of openness

Research and publications

Open knowledge is any content, information or data that people are free to use, re-use and redistribute – without any legal, social or technological restriction. Open data or open knowledge is one of the most recent IT megatrends. All around…

Experimental CANopen EEC management

Research and publications

Current CANopen design files do not support EECs (emergency error codes) with their human readable descriptions. This feature has become more problematic because of abstraction to parameters and signals. The system structure has become automated…

SI-Unit and scaling management in CANopen

Research and publications

Various kind of inconsistencies have been typical problems in design of distributed control systems. The first solved issue was an automated generation of signal and parameter abstraction from CANopen project avoiding the inconsistent names…

Hydraulic valves driven by general purpose CANopen I/O

Research and publications

Commonality between hydraulic valves driven by general purpose CANopen I/O and hydraulic CANopen drives Hydraulic valves have been driven by separate valve control electronics for decades. The tradition is becoming obsolete due to ever increasing…