Everything about Fieldbus

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: FieldbusA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Synchronization of Electrical Drives via EtherCAT Fieldbus Communication ModulesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Fieldbus and Networking in Process AutomationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Fieldbus Technology in Industrial AutomationCited 211 times
5. Go sideways: ProfibusA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: RAPIEnetA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Fieldbus Technology in Industrial Automation

  J.-P. Thomesse · 2005 · Proceedings of the IEEE · 211 citations

• Real-time fieldbus communications using Profibus networks

  E. Tovar, F. Vasques · 1999 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · 159 citations

• An improved CAN fieldbus for industrial applications

  G. Cena, A. Valenzano · 1997 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · 66 citations

• Design and Implementation of a Wireless Fieldbus for Plastic Machineries

  Alessandra Flammini, Daniele Marioli, Emiliano Sisinni · 2009 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics · 61 citations

• Distributed Fieldbus and control network systems

  G. Schickhuber, O. McCarthy · 1997 · Computing & Control Engineering Journal · 54 citations

• HidroBus® system: fieldbus for integrated management of extensive areas of irrigated land

  M Damas, A.M Prados, F Gómez · 2001 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 43 citations

• Priority-Aware Wireless Fieldbus Protocol for Mixed-Criticality Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

  Hossam Farag, Emiliano Sisinni, Mikael Gidlund · 2019 · IEEE Sensors Journal · 41 citations

• Implementation of a bandwidth allocation scheme in a token-passing fieldbus network

  Seung Ho Hong, Yu Chul Kim · 2002 · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · 36 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Synchronization of Electrical Drives via EtherCAT Fieldbus Communication Modules

  Marcin Paprocki, Krystian Erwiński · 2022 · Energies · 27 citations

• Modbus Protocol Performance Analysis in a Variable Configuration of the Physical Fieldbus Architecture

  Vasile Gheorghita Gaitan, Ionel Zagan · 2022 · IEEE Access · 23 citations

• Intrusion Device Detection in Fieldbus Networks Based on Channel-State Group Fingerprint

  Xiangming Wang, Yang Liu, Kexin Jiao · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 15 citations

• Gigabit Modbus user datagram protocol fieldbus network integrated with industrial vision communication

  Ming-Yi Lin, Ching-Han Chen, Zong-Bin Dong · 2022 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 8 citations

• Wireless fieldbus networking with precision time synchronization for a low-power WSAN

  Ching-Han Chen, Ming-Yi Lin, Wee-Ping Tew · 2022 · Microprocessors and Microsystems · 8 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Fieldbus and Networking in Process AutomationSunit Kumar Sen · 2014
• Fieldbus systems and their applications 2005IFAC International Conference on Fieldbus Systems and Their Applications. (6th 2005 Puebla, Mexico), Miguel Leon Chavez · 2006
• Fieldbus systems and their applications 2003IFAC International Conference on Fieldbus Systems and their Applications (5th 2003 Aveiro, Portugal) · 2003
• The consumer guide to fieldbus network equipment for process controlDick Caro · 2004
• Fieldbus systems and their applications 2001 (FeT '2001)IFAC Conference on Fieldbus Systems and their Applications (2001 Nancy, France), D. Dietrich · 2002
• Foundation fieldbusIan Verhappen · 2012
• Foundation fieldbusIan Verhappen · 2005
• 📕Mew fieldbus systemsOkoro Okereke · 2000

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