CPC G07C 5/0808 (2013.01) [B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A hierarchical diagnostics electrical architecture for a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a plurality of on-board computing devices for hosting the hierarchical diagnostics electrical architecture, and the hierarchical diagnostics electrical architecture comprising:
a component diagnostic layer comprising a plurality of electronic control units each comprising a diagnostics server module arranged to:
receive sensor output data from one or more on-board vehicle sensors; and
perform one or more diagnostic tasks based on the received sensor output data to generate one or more component-level diagnostic notifications; and
at least one supervisory diagnostic layer arranged to receive the component-level diagnostic notifications from each of a group of the plurality of electronic control units, wherein the at least one supervisory diagnostic layer is arranged to perform arbitration management across multiple diagnostic testers.
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