Electronic system for a motor vehicle

US5351776A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Frieder Keller · Ubstadt-Weiher, DE
• Martin Streib · Leinfelden, DE
• Otto Holzinger · Eschenbach, DE
• Rolf Leonhard · Schwieberdingen, DE
• Thomas Golzer · Schwieberdingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 6, 1992
• Grant date: Oct 4, 1994
• Expiry date: Apr 6, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S303/04
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention is directed to an control system for a motor vehicle and includes: a plurality of control elements coacting for carrying out control tasks with reference to engine power, drive power and braking operation, respectively, and a plurality of coordinating elements for coordinating the coaction of the first elements to effect a control of operating performance of the motor vehicle in correspondence to a request of the driver. The elements are arranged in the form of a plurality of hierarchial levels. At least one of the coordinating elements of one of the hierarchial levels is adapted for acting on the elements of an adjacent hierarchial level when translating the request of the driver into a corresponding operating performance of the motor vehicle thereby acting on a pregiven subordinate system of the driver-vehicle system while providing the performance required from the higher hierarchial level for this subordinate system.