BRAKING SYSTEM WITH FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A BRAKING SYSTEM

1 . A braking system for a motor vehicle, comprising:

a brake pedal with at least one pedal sensor for detecting the driver input;

a plurality of electrically controllable wheel brake modules each comprising an electromechanical wheel brake;

at least one electronic control unit; and

at least one electronic power unit which is designed to control at least one electromechanical wheel brake;

wherein the pedal sensor is connected via at least one braking input signal line to at least one electronic control unit; and

wherein the at least one electronic control unit is designed to generate control information for the electronic power unit from the braking information of the pedal sensor and to transmit said control information to the electronic power unit.

2 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the brake pedal comprises at least two pedal sensors, which are at least a force sensor and a travel sensor, and wherein the signals of the two pedal sensors can be transmitted during operation to the electronic control unit.

3 . The braking system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each pedal sensor is connected to each of the at least one electronic control unit via a braking input signal for of the at least one electronic control units.

4 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electromechanical wheel brakes are one of electromechanical disk brakes and electromechanical drum brakes.

5 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electromechanical wheel brake of a front wheel is an electromechanical disk brake and the electromechanical wheel brake of a rear wheel is an electromechanical drum brake.

6 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one electronic control unit is redundant, and wherein each of the at least one electronic control unit comprises the same functionality as one another with regard to the generation of the control information for the at least one electronic power unit.

7 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one electronic control unit is at least two electronic control units accommodated in two spatially separated housings from one another.

8 . The braking system as claimed in claim 7 , wherein at least one data bus line, for data transmission is arranged between the separately arranged electronic control units.

9 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one electronic control unit is spatially separated from the electronic power unit.

10 . The braking system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein at least one data bus line is arranged between the at least one electronic control unit and the at least one electronic power unit.

11 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one electronic control unit comprises at least one microprocessor per electronic control unit.

12 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one electronic control unit is connected to a data bus of the motor vehicle.

13 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each electronic control unit has its own; separate supply voltage.

14 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein is at least two electronic control units accommodated in a common module or in a common housing.

15 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of a front axle and a rear axle the at least one electronic power unit is directly assigned to the associated electromechanical wheel brake.

16 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of a front axle and a rear axle an axle controller is provided, which comprises the at least one electronic power unit for controlling the associated electromechanical wheel brakes located at that axle.

17 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one diagonal controller is provided, which comprises the at least one electronic power unit for controlling diagonally opposite wheel brakes.

18 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one electronic control unit and one of the at least one electronic power unit, an axle controller, and a diagonal controller are accommodated in a common housing.

19 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one electronic power units of an axle controller or a diagonal controller each have a separate supply voltage.

20 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electronic power units of an axle controller or a diagonal controller are redundant.

21 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electronic power units of an axle controller or a diagonal controller have just one common supply voltage.

22 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electronic power units of an axle controller or a diagonal controller have a common microprocessor.

23 . The braking system for a motor vehicle; comprising

a brake pedal with at least one pedal sensor for detecting driver input;

a plurality of electrically controllable wheel brake modules each comprising an electromechanical wheel brake, and at least one electronic power unit to control the respective electromechanical wheel brake; and

one of an axle controller and a diagonal controller having the electronic power unit for controlling at least two of the plurality of electromechanical wheel brakes.

24 . The braking system as claimed in claim 23 further comprising;

an at least one electronic control unit, wherein the at least one pedal sensor is connected via at least one braking input signal line to the electronic control unit; and

wherein the at least one electronic control unit is designed to generate control information for the electronic power unit from the braking information of the pedal sensor and to transmit said control information to the electronic power unit.

25 . The braking system as claimed in claim 23 ,

wherein a diagonal power supply is provided to the wheel brakes in which in each case diagonally opposite wheel brakes are connected to the same supply voltage.

26 . The braking system as claimed in claim 23 , wherein a power supply comprises a switching unit for reciprocal switching over in the event of failure of a supply voltage.

27 . The braking system as claimed in claim 23 ,

wherein a power supply supplies power to front wheel brakes of the plurality of wheel brakes, wherein each wheel brake of the front wheel brakes is connected to a respective front wheel by a first supply voltage and by a second supply voltage; and

wherein rear wheel brakes of the plurality of wheel have a single power supply.

28 . (canceled)

29 . The braking system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the brake pedal is a dry brake pedal.