Tag Archive for: CANopen
CANopen Safety Certified Expansion Board
Case StudiesThe primary objective was to develop a CANopen Safety, SIL2 / PLd, Cat 3, expansion board for the customers remote control product. The aim of the first part of the project was to allow our customer and its clients to assess the functionality…
TKE CiA 408 Four-Edge Valve Controller
Case StudiesTK Engineering Oy has developed a CiA 408 device profile compliant four-edge valve controller. The four-edge valve controller simplifies the control of hydraulic cylinder piston velocities. The piston velocity is controlled through a standardized…
Case study: Translifter Control System
Case StudiesTK Engineering, a specialist in distributed control systems, has developed a control system solution for a translifter implementation. Contik approached TKE to design and develop a control system solution for a prototype translifter project.…
CANopen ConfTool 2.1.4 Version Release
NewsNew version of CANopen ConfTool has been released. CANopen ConfTool is specially designed for efficient production line and service operations. Its easy-to-use tool that helps the user to configure nodes for the correct target position in the…
CANtrace 3.17 Release adds playback of log files to the CAN bus
NewsWe have reached the Next Level – Cantrace 3.17 Released
This release adds playback of log files to the CAN bus, which can be used for simulation, testing and bus traffic generation. Any log file in ASC format can be used to generate data…
Analysis of residual error and their consequences in CANopen systems
Research and publicationsResidual error analyses for CAN networks have been performed for years. It is well documented, that commonly used equations do not fully apply for analytic computing of the residual error probability of CAN networks. Also too high bit error…
Physical layer really matters in CAN
Research and publicationsDespite 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…
CANopen safeguards to decrease the effect of residual errors further
Research and publicationsData transfer over CANopen networks is extremely reliable, but CANopen also offers further safeguards in order to decrease the effect of residual errors further.
In many applications, complex safety add-ons have been designed on top of existing…
Systematic re-use of information
Research and publicationsSystematic 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 publicationsMultiple 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 mainstream…