Volkswagen Ag

Sebastian Schmidt-Schäfer

Timo Dobberphul

Tobias Sachs

Christopher Kreis

Frank Schöttler

Michael Niehues

A steering drive system for a steering system of a transportation vehicle having a first control unit for actuating a first winding circuit of a steering drive motor with a test circuit to make available a defined changing test signal and a second control unit for actuating a second winding circuit of the steering drive motor, wherein a test signal reception circuit of the second control unit receives the test signal, and wherein the second control unit actuates the steering drive motor based on the presence or absence of the test signal.

Electromechanical steering drive system for making available steering assistance for a steering system

A hardware architecture for controlling a safety-relevant process having at least two microcontrollers for controlling the process in at least two control branches, wherein the respective microcontroller control the safety-relevant process. The microcontrollers process the data from at least one sensor, which detects the actual characteristic of the respective control branch. Between the two microcontrollers, the data of the respective sensor are exchanged and provided for each microcontroller and a check is made to determine whether the data from the sensors are consistent. In response to an inconsistency being detected, a majority decision is made and a model value used in forming the majority decision, is calculated in the microcontroller based on control commands so the control of the safety-relevant process by the microcontroller of the control branch, whose data were detected as erroneous in the majority decision, is disabled.

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Sebastian Schmidt-Schäfer