Control unit for a control system, control system, and motor vehicle having a control system

Abstract

A control unit for a control system of a motor vehicle for controlling at least one function of the motor vehicle. The control unit comprises at least one computing unit for evaluating output signals provided to the control unit from at least one sensor of the control system, the sensor corresponding to the function, and for controlling power electronics of an actuator of the control system via control signals according to the output signals in order to perform the function of the motor vehicle. The control unit is in the form of only a single control unit of the control system, wherein the control unit has a total of three computing units and is designed and configured such that, only via the control unit, a main function and a secondary function of the motor vehicle can be controlled, irrespective of an error in only one of the three computing units.

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