Patent ID: 8555375

Claim:
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; and 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.