Process and device for an accelerated execution of a program using a stored-program controller

US6024477A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Kurt Bauer · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Franz Riedmueller · Attenhöfen, DE
• Hans-Peter Bartenschlager · Stuttgart, DE
• Thomas Jost · Weinheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 25, 1997
• Grant date: Feb 15, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 25, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/15109
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A process and a device for accelerated execution of a program by a stored-program controller (SPC) on a machine. The machine has actuators actuated by the SPC to perform machine actions and sensors to output machine status signals. According to the process, the subsequent actuator action is triggered independently of whether the machine action caused by the previous actuator triggering has been completed. For this purpose, a status evaluation device is connected between the SPC and the machine, which receives the actuator triggering signals and the status signals output by the machine, and which generates therefrom an acknowledge signal indicating the completion of a machine action caused by actuator triggering; the acknowledge signal is supplied to the SPC as feedback signals describing the machine.