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EP 4091054 A1 20221123 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONFIGURING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE IN THE EVENT OF A FAULT

Title (en)

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONFIGURING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE IN THE EVENT OF A FAULT

Title (de)

VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG ZUM REKONFIGURIEREN EINES AUTOMATISIERT FAHRENDEN FAHRZEUGS IN EINEM FEHLERFALL

Title (fr)

PROCÉDÉ ET DISPOSITIF POUR RECONFIGURER UN VÉHICULE À CONDUITE AUTOMATIQUE EN CAS D'ERREUR

Publication

EP 4091054 A1 20221123 (DE)

Application

EP 21700423 A 20210112

Priority

  • DE 102020200459 A 20200115
  • DE 102020203420 A 20200317
  • EP 2021050494 W 20210112

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2021144271A1] The invention relates to a method for reconfiguring an autonomous vehicle (50) in the event of a fault, wherein application entities (60-x, 61-x) are executed in a distributed manner across a plurality of computing nodes (70-x) in accordance with a predefined configuration (62), wherein a fault in an application entity (60-x, 61-x) and/or in an operating system and/or in a piece of hardware is detected by means of the at least one monitor device (2), wherein the detected fault is isolated by means of a switching device (3) by switching to application entities (61-x) which are redundant with respect to the affected application entities (60-x), and wherein predefined redundancy conditions (11) and/or segregation conditions (12) are restored for the application entities (60-x, 61-x) by the reconfiguration, by an application placement device (4), of the configuration (62) , wherein the reconfiguration is carried out such that the number of times application entities (60-x, 61-x) are switched to other computing nodes (70-x) to establish the predefined redundancy conditions (11) and/or segregation conditions (12) will be or is minimised. The invention also relates to a corresponding apparatus (1) and to a vehicle (50) comprising such an apparatus (1).

IPC 8 full level

G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

B60W 50/0225 (2013.01 - US); G06F 11/2028 (2013.01 - EP US); G06F 11/3013 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 2021144271A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

Designated extension state (EPC)

BA ME

Designated validation state (EPC)

KH MA MD TN

DOCDB simple family (publication)

DE 102020203420 A1 20210715; DE 102020203420 B4 20211104; CN 114930300 A 20220819; EP 4091054 A1 20221123; US 2023054109 A1 20230223; WO 2021144271 A1 20210722

DOCDB simple family (application)

DE 102020203420 A 20200317; CN 202180008573 A 20210112; EP 2021050494 W 20210112; EP 21700423 A 20210112; US 202117793343 A 20210112