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Multi-axes shaker

Monitoring battery-cell parameters via CAN

2022-10-06 The Emast shaker table by Bertrandt is used in the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga (US) to test batteries for electric-powered cars.

Innotrans 2022

Air-free brake system with CAN

2022-09-30 At the Innotrans 2022, Siemens Mobility showed its air-free brake system developed jointly with Liebherr. The device uses a 24-V power supply and a CAN interface to control the brake actuator.

Made in Germany

CAN cleaning controller for energy-from-waste plant in Dubai

2022-09-06 Devices from Hesch Industrie-Elektronik (Germany) control the filter cleaning in the energy-from-waste (EFW) plants in the United Arab Emirates. The HE 5750 controller is the central unit in the CAN network of the cleaning control system.

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

First self-driving truck on public roads

2022-08-24 Waymo and Daimler Truck have developed a redundant SAE level-4 control platform. Based on the Freightliners Cascadia, the truck will be tested on public freeways in Texas and Arizona.

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History and trends: CAN on construction sites

2022-08-18 In cranes, pavers, earth-moving machinery, and other equipment used on construction sites, embedded CAN networks are used for many purposes. CANopen and J1939 are the most applied higher-layer protocols. The next step is the migration to CANopen FD a...

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History and trends: CAN on rails

2022-08-18 CAN serves in many rail vehicles as embedded and deeply embedded network. Often CANopen is used as higher-layer protocol. CiA has developed several profiles, which need to be revised according to new feature requests.

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Photovoltaics for on-board charging

2022-08-18 The Lade-PV project aims to investigate the profitability of photovoltaics use as an additional power source in commercial electric vehicles (EVs). A photovoltaic converter connects the PV solution to the in-vehicle CAN network(s) to manage the batte...

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CANopen powers subway auxiliary inverters

2022-08-18 Leroy introduces how to implement some key features of auxiliary inverters’ management onto commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies: the Brio hardware platform. In the context of the New York City Transit – R211 subway project, the p...

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CAN: Much more than just an interface

2022-08-18 Megatron expands its range of CAN-capable products. First of all, more CAN sensors will be added to the range. They already preprocess the raw sensor signal inside the sensor housing, so no cost-intensive extra I/O or gateway modules are required to ...

CAN control unit

Carton and bin conveying system

2022-07-14 SSI Schaefer has further developed its carton and bin conveying system at the same time the design was modernized. The system transports goods in the warehouse. The unit for controlling the motor rollers uses CAN for data exchange.

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Extending the CAN network

2022-06-28 To overcome CAN limitations, Marin successfully used the TCS-10 CAN switch from TK Engineering to split the CAN network into segments. This gave them the option to have a longer CAN, higher data rates, more flexible network topology and resistance to...

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Feeding cows in the 21st century

2022-06-28 Livestock must be fed multiple times a day, 365 day a year. Mixer-feeders can support this process. They are designed for farms with a large number of animals. Sgariboldi (Italy) chose Epec (Finland) units for its added Titanium series.

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History and trends: CAN goes on (and under) the sea

2022-06-27 CAN networks are used in maritime electronics since a long time. There are different standardized applications based on CANopen and J1939 (known as NMEA 2000). Currently, CiA started to specify a dual-mode redundancy concept suitable for all three CA...

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History and trends: CAN in air and space

2022-06-27 The CAN Newsletter magazine reported already in its cover story of the December 1996 issue about the FDR1-CAN flight data recording system. Nowadays, CAN is used in Boeing and Airbus aircrafts, in helicopters, in drones, and even in satellites in the...

Ifat 2022

Silent and emission-free power take-off for electric trucks

2022-06-01 ZF announced that it has joined forces with Mercedes-Benz Trucks to equip its electric trucks with Eworx, ZF’s electrified power take-off (PTO) system. Demonstration vehicles were unveiled at Munich’s Ifat 2022 global trade fair on May 30...

Motion control programming

Implementation of automated tile manufacturing equipment

2022-05-09 Tiles are transported by a conveyor belt to be processed to various recipes and then transported to the next stage. At the core of the implementation is a CANopen-capable Delta DVP50MC series motion controller. It is also responsible for controlling ...

War against Ukraine

Germany delivers heavy weapons

2022-05-09 The German government plans to provide seven Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzers and 50 Gepard anti-aircraft armored fighting vehicles to the Ukraine. These heavy weapons implement CAN networks for several purposes.

Service robot

With embedded CAN FD network

2022-04-28 Pudu Robotics (China) has launched its first legged robot. The Pudu D1 robot is based on proprietary joint modules and a main control board with high computing power, PUDU D1 is the first commercial delivery-quadruped robot in the industry.

Thermocoupler

Measuring cylinder head temperatures

2022-03-29 Pipo Moteurs (France) has used the CANmod.temp devices by CSS electronics (Denmark) when designing and optimizing its race engines.

War against Ukraine

Military drone with embedded CAN networks

2022-03-24 The Ukrainian armed forces use Byraktar TB2 drones by Baykar Defense (Turkey) to defend against the Russian invasion. The embedded control units are CAN-connectable.

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