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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2014
United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
William Reed, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Dan Duval, Greenwood, IN (US);
John Proctor, Fishers, IN (US);
Alan Ford, Westfield, IN (US);
Chris Williams, Indianapolis, IN (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
This disclosure involves a method of controlling a safety critical control device, the method comprising: sending user inputs to a first state machine, identifying user inputs by the first state machine, determining the correct state to communicate to a second state machine, the correct state being determined by selecting one state of a plurality of states depending on the user inputs, communicating the correct state to a second state machine through a control bus, and determining the correct state for the second state machine based on communication from the control bus.