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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2002
Eve Limin Ding, Senftenberg, DE;
Continental Teves, AG & Co. OHG, Frankfurt, DE;
Abstract
A method and device for monitoring a plurality of sensors detecting a process comprising the following steps: detecting time variations of the output signals of the sensors, comparing and testing the variations in view of their plausibility which is determined by the dependencies of the sensor output signals given by the process, and producing an error message (FM) in the absence of plausibility. A preferred application of the present method prevails in an ESP system for vehicles which is controlled by a microprocessor unit, wherein the process is the electronic driving stability program, and the sensors comprise a yaw rate sensor, a transverse acceleration sensor, and a steering angle sensor, and the method is implemented by a subprogram in the microprocessor unit.