Standardization in automotive industry
Thilo Schumann · 2012
More than 25 years ago Robert Bosch developed CAN with the needs and requirements of the automotive industry. CAN is now in use for over 20 years in the automotive industry and every major international carmaker has adopted it for most of their product lines. Almost any new introduced car makes use of CAN. But there is no standardized higher-layer protocol in use by these manufacturers. There are several attempts in standardization like namely OSEK, but they are not very widely adopted. Together with different carmakers CAN in Automation has developed one defined interface based on the international standardized higher-layer protocol CANopen. It is intended to be used in special purpose cars like for example taxi, police, emergency response vehicles, and cars for disabled persons.