Add to ORKGThe thesis deals with the design of a serial communication bus for a traction vehicle. The first part summarises requirements on a serial bus for a distribution control system inside a traction vehicle. According to requirements a suitable bus controller was chosen. The main effort is concentrated on the definition of a new communication protocol. The protocol is called the Vehicle Local Bus (VLB). It is based on a Controller Area Network. The serial bus supports all necessary data types for a real time control as short period data, short sporadic data, critical-deadline sporadic data, message data. The serial bus can be implemented on a wide range of microcontrollers or microprocessors because a programming interface is defined in the C la...