Automation and electrification are significant enablers for future customer value on agricultural machinery. These solutions come with additional communication needs that are beyond today's CAN networks. On the one hand internet connectivity of the vehicles and the TCP/IP internet protocol suite are foreseen as a major technology pillar that will extend-to our vehicles. On the other hand requirements include real time performance, determinism and configurability, especially in technologies as precision control and electric drives. The BMELV (German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection) funded a research project "Real Time Ethernet Communication between tractor and implement for automation of tractor-implement-applications" during 2007 to 2010 to address these needs. This paper presents results of this research work.
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