Patent ID: 11878752
Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 8:
9. A device for operating a steering system, the device comprising:
an electromechanical steering assistance having a plurality of redundant control paths, each of said control paths including a control unit, a power unit and a winding circuit of a servomotor;
each of said control units having a respective correcting-variable unit for making a correcting variable available in dependence on input variables;
said control paths configured to average the correcting variables of all of said correcting-variable units;
each of said control units making a set correcting variable available in dependence on the averaged correcting variable: and
said electromechanical steering assistance configured to apply correcting torque or forces with the winding circuit of each of said control paths in dependence on the set correcting variable made available by its respective control unit.