METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLING A BRAKE UNIT IN AN AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLABLE UTILITY VEHICLE COMBINATION, AND ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLABLE BRAKE UNIT IN AN AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLABLE UTILITY VEHICLE COMBINATION

摘要

A method for electronically controlling a brake unit having two brake systems in an automatically controllable vehicle combination includes inputting a request signal for automatic electronic activation of service brakes in a tractor vehicle brake system of a tractor vehicle and/or a trailer brake system of a trailer of the vehicle combination, wherein an automatically requested vehicle setpoint acceleration and/or an automatically requested vehicle setpoint velocity to be implemented by the respective service brakes are transmitted via the request signal. The method further includes monitoring and checking plausibility of the request signal to establish whether the automatically requested vehicle setpoint acceleration and/or the automatically requested vehicle setpoint velocity are or can be implemented completely or faultlessly by the respective service brakes. The method additionally includes outputting a trailer redundancy control signal at the trailer brake system under certain conditions.