Design Report for Isolated RS-485 Bus Node

Abstract

The Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Technology Integration Branch of the US Army Research Laboratory routinely develops custom embedded hardware for use in distributed command and control systems. This report covers the design details of a smartphone-controlled wired RS-485 network. The Android-based smartphone or tablet is used in conjunction with a USB to serial bridge to operate as the bus master in the system. The Android device operates in USB Host mode and communicates to the RS-485 bus as if a single peripheral on the USB bus.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1012023

Entities

People

  • Brian T. Mays

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circuit Boards
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Information Operations
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Intelligence Surveillance And Reconnaissance
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Operating Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Personal Computers
  • Printed Circuit Boards
  • Printed Circuits
  • Smartphones
  • Surveillance

Readers

  • Aerospace Research.
  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control