Design and implementation of the CAN based elevator control system

Abstract

In this paper we present a design and implementation of a modern elevator control system. The conventional elevator control system has several disadvantages (complicated circuits, a large number of wires, sensitivity to noise, low level security, etc). An alternative to conventional elevator control systems is a distributed elevator control system. This paper describes a network-based elevator control system via Controller Area Network (CAN). We will show the design of a CAN network with message scheduling. This paper presents the results obtained from the experiment on a real model, i.e. the CAN based elevator control system.