Patent ID: 9733636
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G05B

Claim:
1. A remote unit that controls a control target on the basis of a command from a CPU unit, the remote unit comprising: an external input section to receive one or more detection results of a state of the control target from a detection means that detects the state of the control target; an output section to output a control output for controlling the control target; and an abnormality determining section to determine one or more abnormalities of the control target on the basis of the detection results and to output to the output section, a control instruction to instruct a change or a stop of the control output if the control target is determined to be abnormal, wherein the external input section receives a plurality of detection results from the detection means, and then the abnormality determining section determines a plurality of abnormalities of the control target from a combination of the plurality of detection results and changes contents of the control instruction for each of the determined abnormalities, and if the abnormality determining section determines the control target to be abnormal, the output section changes or stops the control output on the basis of the control instruction to perform abnormality processing of the control target.