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

The invention relates to a method for electronically controlling a brake unit (100) with two brake systems (200, 300) in an automatically controllable vehicle combination (1), having at least the following steps: reading a request signal (S1) for automatically actuating service brakes (5, 8) in a towing vehicle brake system (200) of a towing vehicle (2) and/or a trailer brake system (300) of a trailer (3) of the vehicle combination (1) in an electronic manner, wherein an automatically requested vehicle target acceleration and/or an automatically requested vehicle target speed which is to be controlled by the respective service brake (5, 8) is transmitted via the request signal (S1); monitoring and plausibility-checking the request signal (S1) in order to ascertain whether the automatically requested vehicle target acceleration and/or the automatically requested vehicle target speed is or can be controlled completely or correctly by the respective service brake (5, 8); and outputting a trailer redundancy control signal (S3) to the trailer brake system (300) if the automatically requested vehicle target acceleration and/or the automatically requested vehicle target speed is not or cannot be controlled completely or correctly.