rhaar@gmr.com (Robert L. Haar) (04/23/91)
I have received a number of request for postings on the topic of automotive datalinks, so I will put together some articles. I will post them to rec.autos.tech and sci.electronics. I will alos cross post the initial ones to comp.protocols.misc to see if there is interest there as well. The first article will give an overview of the SAE activities in vehicle networks. This will include some historical background, descriptions of current activities, and pointers to appropriate literature. Later articles will describe each of the three communications categories as defined by SAE. Depending on interest and my schedule, I my put together something on the specialized diagnostic interface that is being developed. I will be doing this as an individual and a member of SAE, not in any official capacity as an employee of General Motors. The information will be all publically available, but not also published at this time. There will be areas of proprietary information that I will not be able to discuss. At G.M. Research Laboratories, we do basic and long-term applied research on topics related to the automotive industry. The things I work on may influence the design of vehicles in production five to ten years from now. But I am not involved with current products. Please do not ask me to help you fix your car. I have neither the time nor the knowledge to do this. I am only an amateur mechanic, like most of the people on these net groups. My purpose in posting these articles is to spread information. The automotive engineering community tends to be rather closed in, with little contact with the academic research world. But the rapid development of computer controls in vehicles is bringing up fundamental issues of distributed control systems. In the same way the automotive engineers know little of current academic research, the computer science research community knows little of the problems in real world engineering. That's all for now. More in a day or two. Bob Haar InterNet : rhaar@gmr.com Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research Laboratories DISCLAIMER: Unless indicated otherwise, everything in this note is personal opinion, not an official statement of General Motors Corp. -- Bob Haar InterNet : rhaar@gmr.com Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research Laboratories DISCLAIMER: Unless indicated otherwise, everything in this note is personal opinion, not an official statement of General Motors Corp.