Vehicle control device and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10661788
APP PUB NO 20170341644A1
SERIAL NO

15664713

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The present invention relates to a vehicle control device for a vehicle, comprising a number of first control devices which are independent of each other and are arranged in a first logical level and designed to calculate predetermined first vehicle control functions and to output first calculation results, a number of further control devices which are independent of each other, are arranged in a number which is superordinate from the first logical level and hierarchically arranged among each other and are designed to calculate further predetermined vehicle control functions and to output further calculation results. According to the invention, the further control devices are designed to use calculation results only of those control devices as input variables for the corresponding vehicle control functions which are arranged in logical levels hierarchically below the logical level of the respective control device.

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CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO OHG60488 FRANKFURT AM MAIN

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Grewe, Ralph Frankfurt am Main, DE 14 217

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