Fault-tolerant node architecture for distributed systems

• Main Authors: DISSER, ROBERT J, DEGOUL, PAUL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 04.11.2009
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OFVEHICLES; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A distributed architecture system including a plurality of nodes (24, 26) operatively coupled together by a bus (28). Each node (24, 26) includes a main controller (42) configured to provide data to the bus (28) and to an actuator (22), and a supervisory controller (44) configured to provide data to...