Method and device for the control and/or the determination of a version of a controller in a system

US6836705B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Hellmann · Hardthof, DE
• Thilo Beck · Schweinfurt, DE
• Simone Kriso · Oberriexingen, DE
• Ralph Lauxmann · Ditzingen, DE
• Albrecht Irion · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 25, 2003
• Grant date: Dec 28, 2004
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B19/0426
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and a device is described as well as a component for controlling a system, in particular in a motor vehicle, the control being implementable in different variants, a component being operable in different variants according to the variants of the control, and the component receiving at least one signal via an interface. The component is introduced into a system environment and adapted to this system environment and/or initialized with this system environment as a system, in that the variant of the system environment is determined. This is done in a system-immanent manner. When the component is first started, the variant is altered and/or preselected one time as a function of the at least one signal, in particular by the component itself. Any other change in and/or selection of the variant following the initial startup is possible only with authorization.