Reliability theory and practice for unmanned aerial vehicles

L Xing, BW Johnson - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to rapid advancements on the Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), also known as drones, are transforming numerous military and civil application …

Mathematical modelling of mission-abort policies: a review

AJ da Silva Rodrigues, CAV Cavalcante… - IMA Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This paper reviews works that consider the mathematical modelling of mission-abort
policies. In a mission-abort policy (MAP), a valuable, and perhaps vulnerable system …

Optimal aborting policy for shock exposed missions with random rescue time

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
For systems operating in random environments, shock number threshold-based mission
abort policies (MAP) have been modeled and optimized for balancing the mission success …

Optimal task aborting policy and component activation delay in consecutive multi-attempt missions

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent reliability literature has extended the investigation of mission abort policies for single-
attempt missions to multi-attempt missions, where the mission task may be attempted …

Optimal task sequencing and aborting in multi-attempt multi-task missions with a limited number of attempts

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Mission abort policies have been investigated for both single-attempt and multi-attempt
missions in the last decade. The existing models typically assumed a single task performed …