VirtualECU

This project implements an ECU simulator completely in software. The simulated communication is initially limited to standardized OBD-II requests, but can easily be extended to support additional standards or even non-standard protocols.

Its CAN and ISOTP layers are powered by the JavaCAN project using the Linux kernel's SocketCAN API. The OBD communication protocol implementation is provided by obd4s, a Scala library built on top of JavaCAN to provide proper standards compliant OBD-II communication.

What works so far

• Simulating multiple ECUs
• Functional and physical addressing, for SFF, EFF and mixed frames
• Configuring time series functions per service and subfunction either by providing a compiled Java class or by using Scala expressions directly in the configuration
• Invalid requests will result in appropriate error responses
• Can be used with real CAN devices or a virtual device

How to Run

The project takes 2 required parameters:

1. the CAN device name
2. the configuration file (see config.yaml in this repository for an example)

Executing the program will also print the usage.

The Configuration

A simple example would look like this:

controllers:
  "7E0":
    name: Engine
    services:
      "01":
        name: Live Data
        action:
          generator: "constant(1.0) andThen unsignedInteger(1)"
        parameters:
          "05":
            name: Coolant Temperature
            action:
              generator: "linear(1, 8.minutes)"

The controllers field is a map from functional ECU CAN address (in hex) to ECU objects.

Each ECU consists of a name and a list of services. The services field is a map from service ID byte (in hex) to service objects.

Each service consists of a name, an optional action and parameters. The parameters field is a map from parameter id byte (in hex) to parameters.

Each parameter consists of a name and an action.

Actions have either a generator or an explicit. generator is a scala expression of type Double => Array[Byte], so a function that takes a doubel and produces a byte array. All functions defined in Functions.scala are implicitly available to these expressions. explicit is a fully qualified class name of a class that implements the Action interface.