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
(MAPs). In a MAP, a valuable, and perhaps, vulnerable system performs a mission with two …

Joint optimization of mission abort and system structure considering dynamic tasks

X Zhao, H Liu, Y Wu, Q Qiu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Mission abort has recently attracted considerable attention to enhance the safety of critical
systems during the primary mission (PM). Most of the existing research focuses on mission …

Joint optimization of mission aborts and allocation of standby components considering mission loss

X Zhao, Y Dai, Q Qiu, Y Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Mission abort is an effective way to enhance system safety during mission execution.
Existing multi-attempt mission abort models can be divided into two main categories …

Optimal joint inspection and mission abort policy for a partially observable system

G Cheng, L Li, C Shangguan, N Yang, B Jiang… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract his paper presents a joint optimization of inspection and condition-based mission
abort policy for a partially observable safety-critical system. The system deterioration is …

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 routes and aborting strategies of trucks and drones under random attacks

R Yan, X Zhu, X Zhu, R Peng - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper is an attempt to explore optimal routes and aborting strategies of trucks and
drones under random attacks. Time windows of targets, aborting strategies of trucks and …

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 …

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 mission abort policy for a multi-component system with failure interaction

G Cheng, J Shen, F Wang, L Li, N Yang - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the optimal joint inspection and mission abort policies for a multi-
component system with failure interaction. Proportional hazards model (PHM) is employed …