Phase reduction for efficient reliability analysis of dynamic k-out-of-n phased mission systems

Chaonan Wang, Liudong Xing, Jingui Yu, Quanlong Guan, Chunhui Yang and Min Yu

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2023, vol. 237, issue C

Abstract: Many technological and computing systems deployed for critical missions, like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and wireless sensor networks, are often designed with redundancies to meet the reliability requirement and conduct their mission task through multiple, consecutive phases of operations. Moreover, the number of available components n and the number of working components required for the correct system function k may change from phase to phase. These systems are referred to as dynamic k-out-of-n phased-mission systems (PMSs). This paper makes contribution by exploring the special structure of k-out-of-n PMSs and proposing novel phase combination theory. Under the proposed combination theory, multiple phases meeting certain conditions are merged into one, leading to a reduced number of mission phases and thus greatly improving the efficiency in the PMS reliability analysis. The proposed phase combination theory is demonstrated through both binary and multi-valued decision diagram-based methods for efficient reliability analysis of k-out-of-n PMSs. Detailed case studies of a multi-UAV system performing a three-phase rescue mission are provided to prove the correctness and efficiency of the proposed phase reduction method.

Keywords: Phased-mission systems; k-out-of-n structure; Phase combination; Binary decision diagram; Multi-valued decision diagram; Unmanned aerial vehicle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2023.109349

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