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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2014
Fts Computertechnik Gmbh, Vienna, AT;
Stefan Poledna, Klosterneuburg, AT;
FTS COMPUTERTECHNIK GMBH, Vienna, AT;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for handling faults in a central control device, wherein the control device comprises a distributed computer system (), to which distributed computer system () sensors () are connected or can be connected, wherein the distributed computer system (), particularly all the components of the computer system, is distributed to a first fault containment unit FCU1 () and a second fault containment unit FCU2 (), wherein FCU1 () and FCU2 () are each supplied with power via a separate, independent power supply, and wherein FCU1 () and FCU2 () interchange data solely via galvanically separated lines, and wherein some of the sensors are connected at least to FCU1 () and the remainder of the sensors are connected at least to FCU2 (), and wherein FCU1 () and FCU2 () are connected to a redundantly designed communication system () having one or more actuators, so that, if FCU1 fails, FCU2 will maintain a limited functionality using the sensors assigned to FCU2, and if FCU2 fails, FCU1 will maintain a limited functionality using the sensors assigned to FCU1.