Control system for a motor vehicle, motor vehicle, method for controlling a motor vehicle, computer program product and computer-readable medium

US11440545B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA · DE

Inventors

• Nikolaus Decius · Lippstadt, DE
• Ulrich Koehler · Marburg, DE
• Carsten KUEGELER · Lippstadt, DE
• Sergey ORLOV · Paderborn, DE
• Juergen Gebert · Moosburg an der Isar, DE
• Peter Grabs · Heidingsfeld, DE
• Matthias Korte · Heidingsfeld, DE
• Josua Blott · Karlsruhe, DE
• Michael J. Claus · Laguna Beach, US
• Heiko Lerch · Welzheim, DE
• Sebastian Ludolph · Lahntal, DE
• Martin Ott · Stetten, DE
• Sebastian Surmund · Steinbach, DE
• Pascal Vollmer · Karlsruhe, DE
• Martin Zillgen · Bellinghauserhohn, DE
• Sven Hillenkoetter · Untereuerheim, DE
• Martin Hopf · Groß-Zimmern, DE
• Joachim Oechsner · Reichenberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 2020
• Grant date: Sep 13, 2022
• Expiry date: Nov 11, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60W2050/021
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A control system for a motor vehicle having a first control unit for controlling a first function of the motor vehicle and a second control unit for controlling a second function of the motor vehicle. In order to ensure, with the least possible additional complexity, that functions of a motor vehicle that are controlled by means of control units are properly executed even in the event of a faulty control unit, the control system has a third control unit for controlling the first function and the second function of the motor vehicle and, depending on the receipt of a fault signal of the first and/or second control unit by the third control unit, the third control unit can be configured such that the motor vehicle first and/or second function corresponding to the faulty control unit can be controlled by means of the third control unit alone.