TRAFFIC ANALYSIS OF A NETWORK-BASED CONTROL SYSTEM USING THE CAN

摘要

This paper deals with an architecture of network-based control system using the CAN(Controller Area Network) protocol and its traffic analysis. It is difficult lo determine an optimal network-based control architecture for a specific AGV(Autonomous Guided Vehicle) system with a manipulator arm. The fixed number of periodic messages to be occurred is pre-defined in the system. To determine whether the proposed system architecture is effective or not. we perform traffic analysis for the real-time communication of all messages. Through simulations, the range of transmission speed is found satisfying the required conditions and the permissible number of additional sensors is investigated for improving the system performance, when the sampling periods of analog sensors are determined under fixed condition mat the transmission speed is over 500Kbps.