Patent ID: 8930036
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G05B,G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An automatically reconfigurable electrical network for a system, said network comprising: a plurality of sensors and actuators, where the sensors measure parameters of the system and the actuators perform an action in the system; two or more electronic control units (ECUs) for processing data from the sensors and issuing commands to the actuators; two or more interface devices for connecting the sensors and actuators to the ECUs, where each of the interface devices includes a communication controller, a reconfigurable channel use table, and a reconfigurable message table, said interface devices being software-reconfigurable to modify connectivity, where the message table for each of the interface devices can be reconfigured by a command from one of the ECUs to modify message source and destination device identifiers; and a communications bus for carrying messages between the interface devices and the ECUs.