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 aborting and sequencing in time constrained multi-task multi-attempt missions

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Mission abort may reduce the risk of system losses in many critical applications. Diverse
aborting policies have been designed for single-attempt and multi-attempt missions …

Optimizing component activation and operation aborting in missions with consecutive attempts and common abort command

S Meng, L Xing, G Levitin - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Motivated by the demand of increasing the mission success probability, there is a shift of
attention from single-attempt missions to multi-attempt missions in the mission aborting …

A kill chain optimization method for improving the resilience of unmanned combat system-of-systems

Y Zhong, H Li, Q Sun, Z Huang, Y Zhang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
Unmanned combat system-of-systems (UCSoS) refers to a new type of combat force
composed of unmanned combat platforms with different capabilities and whose structure …

A lifetime estimation method for multi-component degrading systems with deteriorating spare parts

Z Zhang, J Zhang, D Du, T Li, X Si - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the most important aspects in prognostics and system health management (PHM),
spare parts play significant roles in enhancing reliability, shortening downtime, and reducing …

Mission Aborting Policies and Multiattempt Missions

G Levitin, L Xing - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The state of the art in the recently emerged and rapidly developing field of mission aborting
and multiattempt missions is briefly discussed. The research aims to develop optimal rules …

Optimal attempt scheduling and aborting in heterogenous system performing asynchronous multi-attempt mission

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Multi-attempt mission aborting systems have recently received significant attention from the
reliability community. Existing models mostly assume parallel or sequential execution of …

Optimizing time-varying performance and mission aborting policy in resource constrained missions

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Intensive efforts have been devoted to mission aborting systems. However, the existing
models mostly assumed static performance or failed to consider limited resources (eg …

Multi-attempt missions with multiple rescue options

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
In spite of intensive works on modeling and optimizing diverse mission aborting systems
from the reliability community, none of the existing models have considered multiple rescue …

Activation delay and aborting policy minimizing expected losses in consecutive attempts having cumulative effect on mission success

S Meng, L Xing, G Levitin - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new mission system model where the task may be attempted multiple
times by different components that are activated one by one with dissimilar delays. The …