Configuration method for control units
AssigneeBOMAG GmbH
InventorsMartin Schofl, Christian Fondel, Robert Laux
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Abstract
The invention relates to a configuration method for a control unit of a machine, the control unit having a data memory and being mounted in a machine control system having at least one already configured control unit with a data memory, the to-be-configured control unit communicating via a data connection with the already configured control unit of the machine control system and retrieving therefrom configuration data for its own configuration.
Claims23
A configuration method for a control unit of a machine control system, mounted in a construction machine or a waste compressor, that includes a to-be-configured master control unit with a data memory and at least one already-configured slave control unit with a data memory storing configuration data for the master control unit and the slave control unit, the method comprising:
- connecting the to-be-configured master control unit to the already-configured slave control unit using a machine-based CAN-bus;
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- communicating configuration data for the master control unit from the already-configured slave control unit to the to-be-configured master control unit using the machine-based CAN-bus,
- wherein the configuration data are related to a type of machine or to an individual machine, and include at least one of pump characteristics, valve characteristics, mechanical characteristics or learning values, and
- wherein the configuration data for the master control unit and the slave control unit are different.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.