CAN Networks in the Field

I’m developing an independent research project on timing, coordination, and state consistency in CAN-based distributed control systems. The broader scope includes networks used in mobile, industrial, marine, robotic, agricultural, and energy applications.

The project is still in its research-design phase. I’m reviewing prior work, narrowing the questions, and defining the experiments, firmware, software, data collection, and analysis needed to study these systems in a repeatable way.

There are no experimental findings to report yet. The first milestone is a dedicated test platform where I can control bus utilization and message timing, measure arbitration delay by identifier priority, and record endpoint response latency. That platform will provide the basis for measuring when commanded, reported, and observed state diverge, how long the divergence persists, and how those failures appear on the network.