General Motors - Developing a Fully X-by-Wire Vehicle

Author(s):
Pradyumna K. Mishra (General Motors R&D Labs), 
Sanjeev M. Naik (General Motors R&D Labs), 
Company: General Motors, USA
Published: dSPACE NEWS 2006/1, Feb 2006

FlexRay is a high-speed and fault-tolerant bus system for use in automotive applications. General Motors (GM) uses a FlexRay network to control the Sequel, a fully x-by-wire fuel cell vehicle. Several dSPACE MicroAutoBoxes with FlexRay and CAN interfaces form the distributed control system for the vehicle.



  • English: General Motors - Developing a Fully X-by-Wire Vehicle PDF, 188 KB
  • German: General Motors - Entwicklung eines X-by-Wire-Fahrzeugs PDF, 243 KB
  • Japanese: 「X-by-Wire」全面採用の車両の開発 PDF, 629 KB

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