Ondersoek na die gebruik van CAN in 'n laespoed kommunikasie stelsel vir 'n volgende generasie SUNSAT mikro satelliet

[摘要] ENGLISH SUMMARY: The communication structure of the current SUNSAT 1 micro satellite employs a parallelarchitecture, which consists of a number of different unique interfaces. The currentsystem however has some undesirable properties, some of which are the high processorload and the amount of different interfaces that exist.For a next generation SUNSAT micro satellite the need arose for a new communicationstructure, which replaces the parallel structure with a network system.In this thesis the CAN (Controller Area Network) protocol is evaluated for implementationin a possible next generation communication system. Different systems are evaluatedand the properties of each system are discussed.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University