METHOD OF MANAGING MALFUNCTIONS OF A MODULAR-ARCHITECTURE CONTROL SYSTEM OF A MOTOR VEHICLE POWER PLANT AND CORRESPONDING CONTROL SYSTEM

摘要

A method of managing information interchanged within a modular-architecture control system of a motor vehicle power plant and values of which are liable to be affected by malfunctioning of the control system and/or of the power plant. In the method an indication of the validity of the value of the information is allocated to each of the information items, this indication of validity being formulated by a module that generates the information on the basis of input indications received by the generating module and representative of a potential malfunctioning of this generating module or of another module.