An introduction to FlexRay as an industrial network

Author

Shaw, Robert ; Jackman, Brendan

Author_Institution

Automotive Control Group, Waterford Inst. of Technol., Waterford

fYear

2008

fDate

June 30 2008-July 2 2008

Firstpage

1849

Lastpage

1854

Abstract

The FlexRay Protocol was developed by the FlexRay consortium which was started when BMW and DaimlerChrysler worked together to create a new network scheme that would suit their current and future needs. They were soon joined by other companies such as Bosch and Phillips [1]. FlexRay is set to become widely used in the automotive industry where it will replace or support existing networking schemes such as CAN. It has already been implemented by BMW in the 2006 X5 [2]. This paper will introduce the key features of the FlexRay protocol and where relevant it will be compared it to CAN and the existing Fieldbus technologies such as PROFIBUS and Foundation Fieldbus.

Keywords

automobile industry; controller area networks; field buses; production engineering computing; protocols; CAN; FlexRay protocol; Foundation Fieldbus; PROFIBUS; automotive industry; industrial network; Automation; Automotive engineering; Electrical equipment industry; Electronic mail; Field buses; Industrial control; Network topology; Protocols; Safety; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2008. ISIE 2008. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cambridge

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1665-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1666-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2008.4676987

Filename

4676987