Assigning a control authorization to a computer

A system comprising:

• at least two asynchronous computers, at least one application that provides control data for at least one actuator system being executed on each of the at least two asynchronous computers, respectively, wherein the provided control data is transmitted from a control-authorized computer that assumes a master computer status, to the at least one actuator system for the control thereof,
• wherein the at least two asynchronous computers of the system exchange state data and performance data cyclically with one another via a data interface in a data exchange, wherein the state data of a computer has status data of the computer that satisifies a computer status of the computer, wherein the computer status of a computer has:
• a master computer status as a control-authorized computer;
• a slave computer status as a non-control-authorized computer;
• and
• a master intermediate computer status as a computer that is still control-authorized, and
• wherein the at least two asynchronous computers each determine, based on the state data and the performance data obtained from other computers in the data exchange and based on state data and performance data of the at least two asynchronous computers, respectively, the computer status to be assumed by the respective computer as a control-authorized or non-control-authorized computer, in a master-slave selection executed on the computer.