Development and testing of a communication network for a drive-by-wire industrial vehicle

Author

Bertoluzzo, M. ; Buja, Giuseppe ; Zuccollo, Alberto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Padova Univ., Italy

fYear

2005

fDate

10-12 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

529

Lastpage

534

Abstract

Drive-by-wire (DbW) is an automotive technology aimed at substituting the traditional driving equipment with an all-electric system. In particular it utilizes a communication network to transmit the driving commands. This paper is focused on developing and testing a communication network for a DbW industrial vehicle. At first the safety requirements for the DbW system are established and its architecture is derived. Afterwards the specifications for the communication network are formulated. Two viable solutions for the network protocol are then evaluated and their communication performance is analyzed. At last an experimental network is set up and its behavior under data transmission is tested.

Keywords

electric vehicles; occupational safety; protocols; automotive technology; communication network; data transmission; drive-by-wire industrial vehicle; electric system; network protocol; Automotive engineering; Communication industry; Communication networks; Data communication; Performance analysis; Protocols; Safety; Testing; Vehicle driving; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Informatics, 2005. INDIN '05. 2005 3rd IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9094-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDIN.2005.1560432

Filename

1560432