Standardized bridges & gateway for CANopen: Holger Zeltwanger describes the work being done to standardize CANopen networks

摘要

We have really known it all along: there is no such thing as a single communication technology that is suitable for every purpose. Quasi-religious fundamentalism for a certain network is not in the industrial users best interest. Users are always spoilt for choice, even the introduction of Ethernet-based solutions to industrial automation has not changed this fact. By now more than 15 systems compete for users' grace.