Flexray and isobus integration for off-road vehicles: new standards together for safety and effective applications

This paper makes an analytical overview of a hybrid network for off-highway vehicles where ISOBUS and FlexRay protocols co-exist. A functional analysis has been conducted and a methodology for a quantitative evaluation of the overall system (in terms of performance and reliability) is carried out. The experiments described here (including also the timeframe for future works) take the move from the framework depicted by regional funded project Pro-Tract: a lab has been set up to investigate these and others (Tesauri et al. 2005, [28]) items related to off-highway vehicles.