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Ship rudder control (autopilot) with a CAN bus

US8346395B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Raytheon Anschutz GmbH · DE

Inventors

Wolfgang Rosen · Soest, DE
Norbert Pedersen · Kiel, DE
Michael Wessel · Kiel, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 28, 2009
Grant date	Jan 1, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 16, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L12/40182
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Ship rudder control, so-called autopilot, includes a multiplicity of components connected with a bus interface to a CAN bus and via this also to each other. A further bus interface on each component of the control system is coupled to a separate, second bus, with the components being provided with unambiguous addresses and further information being assigned that mark the components as monitorable or non-monitorable. A device for emitting telegrams of component addresses and monitorability. A first comparator on all monitorable components start or switch off their own property as a monitoring component using the addresses of other components in received telegrams by comparison, and a second comparator on all monitorable components that use the number of received telegrams by comparison with the number of telegrams received on the other channel causing a change of the channel to that with the higher number of received telegrams under certain circumstances.

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