Fieldbus Networks Topic In Instrumentation And Control Systems Courses

Abstract

His teaching and research interests are in electrical engineering/technology area with specialization in artificial intelligence, control systems, computer networking and power systems. He is a senior member of IEEE and ISA. Joseph Mainoo, Bowling Green State University Joseph Mainoo is a graduate student in the Master of Industrial Technology degree at the Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He received his B.S. in Electronics and Computer Technology from the Bowling Green State University, Ohio, in 2004. He also has a Diploma in Management Information Systems from the Institute for the Management of Information Systems, London, UK. His academic interests are in the areas of information technology and electronics. He is a student member of ISA.

Can Based Fieldbus Experiments

“…It is important to integrate fieldbus networks topic in engineering and technology courses so that the curriculum is aligned with the current industrial practice [2]. To emphasize this importance, reference [3] presented advantages of fieldbus networks, a generic communication protocol model and the deviations from this model for various fieldbus networks were identified. As an example of a fieldbus, an overview of CAN was given.…”

“…As an example of a fieldbus, an overview of CAN was given. CANoe, a CAN simulation software, was outlined, and simulation experiments that are based on CANoe were outlined without much emphasis on hardware experiments in [3].…”

“…This paper, therefore, presents CAN-based hardware experiments, and integration of these experiments in instrumentation and control systems courses laboratories at BGSU. Following a brief overview of CAN in Section II and CANoe software in Section III from reference[3], a general purpose PIC microcontroller based CANstart module is introduced in Section IV. This board provides communication features for simple digital inputs and outputs, and analog inputs.…”