UAVCAN

Zubax Robotics is the main developer and maintainer of UAVCAN – an open data bus standard designed for aerospace and robotic applications.

UAVCAN is an integral part of the Dronecode core infrastructure (the Dronecode project is maintained by The Linux Foundation) and is used by numerous vendors and companies all over the world.

Learn more from the official website at uavcan.org.

Features

• Democratic network – no bus master, no single point of failure.
• Publish/subscribe and request/response (RPC) data exchange semantics.
• Efficient exchange of large data structures with automatic decomposition and reassembly.
• Lightweight, deterministic, easy to implement, and easy to validate.
• Suitable for deeply embedded, resource constrained, hard real-time systems.
• Supports dual and triply modular redundant transports.
• Supports high-precision network-wide time synchronization.
• The specification and high quality reference implementations in popular programming languages are free, open source, and available for commercial use (MIT license).

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	DSDL documentation comments While working on the DSDL specification and its parser, I briefly pondered about automatic extraction of doc comments from DSDL definitions to facilitate automatic documentation of generated code. Currently, our code generators have no way of obtaining relevant comments from DSDL descriptions becaus… 2019 Mar 21 by pavel.kirienko Category Development & Maintenance
	Why DB9 male on the device? Hi! It’s really interesting why UAVCAN uses male DB9 connector on the device and not on cable side? There are few downsides of this decision: Short circuit on power source devices is possible when using male connector if something goes to the connector. Pins can be damaged and it will be harder, t… 2019 Mar 19 by arrowcircle Category Development & Maintenance
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	Firmware update via GUI tool Hi! I am testing the performance during firmware download between GUI tool and node, using different bus speeds. On node side , I am using the Updatee code snippet and testing multiple timer intervals of the periodic timer. Even if I reduce the file.Read periodic timer on node side to very short, I… 2019 Mar 06 by deekay Category Applications & Usage
	GUI Is Not Populating Node Info When I open the Node Properties for a given node, the UAVCAN GUI Tool isn’t populating the Node info. This is for jDrones nodes running UC4H firmware. Node_Properties__59__and_UAVCAN_GUI_Tool.png685x947 144 KB Also, if the Online Nodes list supposed to flash nodes in and out? They don’t stay in t… 2019 Mar 05 by davidbitton Category Applications & Usage
	Myxa integration with ArduPLANE via UAVCAN I am currently attempting to take advantage of one of the first consumer-available FOC controllers (Zubax Myxa) on vehicles powered by Arduplane. Although there are numerous interface options available, I have chosen CAN for its advantages in monitoring battery and ESC status. There are a few issues… 2019 Mar 04 by Naterater Category Myxa FOC ESC
	Proposed new UAVCAN repo and pypi distribution While wiring up hpp generation in my branch of libuavcan I kept trying to keep the repo focused on the c++ source but ended up writing as much build logic and configuration to manage the python “dsdl_compiler”. Because of this I’m now convinced that the best design for libuavcan and for the UAVCAN … 2019 Feb 25 by scottdixon Category Development & Maintenance

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