
CANopen in the frontline of openness
Research and publicationsOpen 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 publicationsCurrent 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 publicationsVarious 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 publicationsCommonality 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…