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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2018
GE Aviation Systems Limited, Cheltenham, GB;
David Alan Elliott, Gloucester, GB;
James Angelo Elder, Cheltenham, GB;
Peter James Handy, Cheltenham, GB;
Denis Vaughan Weale, Bristol, GB;
GE Aviation Systems Limited, Cheltenham, GB;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method of initializing a set of controllable units in an electrical system. The method comprises: A) obtaining, by a controllable unit controller module in a sequence of the controllable units, a discovery message on a non-addressable data pathway; B) broadcasting on an addressable data bus, by the controllable unit controller module, an identity of the functional unit; C) transmitting the discovery message to another controllable unit controller module in the sequence of the controllable units by way of the non-addressable data pathway; and D) recording, by the system controller module, the broadcasted identity of the controllable unit.