DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND TRANSMITTING CONTROL COMMANDS FOR AN AUTONOMOUSLY DRIVING MOTOR VEHICLE

Technologies and techniques for generating and transmitting control commands for an autonomously driving motor vehicle. A device receives at least surroundings data and vehicle status data, calculates a trajectory on the basis of said data, calculates the control commands required for the implementation of the trajectory and transmits them to at least one actuator. The device includes four sub-systems, wherein a first and a third sub-system operate as master and a second and a fourth sub-system operate as slave. Each of the first/second sub-system receives at least surroundings data and vehicle status data and the third/fourth sub-system transmit at least the control commands to at least one actuator. At least the first/third sub-system are designed to be fail-silent; if individual faults occur in a sub-system, at least one control command is to be generated and transmitted in order to bring the motor vehicle into a safe state.