Influence of failure propagation on mission abort policy in heterogeneous warm standby systems

G Levitin, L Xing, L Luo - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
In many life-critical applications (eg, spacecraft, aircrafts and chemical reactors),
accomplishing a specified mission or aborting mission objectives in the case of certain …

Mission abort policy in heterogeneous nonrepairable 1-out-of-N warm standby systems

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many real-world critical systems, such as aircraft and human space flight systems, utilize
mission aborts to enhance the survivability of the system. Specifically, the mission objectives …

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 …

Co-optimization of state dependent loading and mission abort policy in heterogeneous warm standby systems

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper models and optimizes a 1-out-of-N: G heterogeneous warm standby system
subject to state-dependent component loading and mission abort policies. For …

Optimal mission abort policy for systems in a random environment with variable shock rate

G Levitin, M Finkelstein - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
To enhance survivability of many real-world critical systems (eg, aircrafts and human space
flight systems), mission abort procedures are often utilized in practice. Specifically, the …

Joint optimization of mission abort and component switching policies for multistate warm standby systems

X Zhao, X Chai, J Sun, Q Qiu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Safety-critical systems have been widely applied in various practical engineering fields to
perform specific missions. Failures of such systems will lead to significant damage, thus …

Optimal mission abort policy for systems operating in a random environment

G Levitin, M Finkelstein - Risk Analysis, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many real‐world critical systems, eg, aircrafts, manned space flight systems, and
submarines, utilize mission aborts to enhance their survivability. Specifically, a mission can …

Optimal mission abort policy with multiple shock number thresholds

G Levitin, M Finkelstein - … Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
At many instances, it is important to keep a system from being destroyed or “lost” at a cost of
not completing its mission. Therefore, to enhance survivability of many real-world critical …

Mission abort policy for systems with observable states of standby components

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Risk Analysis, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
For some critical applications, successfully accomplishing the mission or surviving the
system through aborting the mission and performing a rescue procedure in the event of …

Optimal mission abort policy for partially repairable heterogeneous systems

JH Cha, M Finkelstein, G Levitin - European Journal of Operational …, 2018 - Elsevier
To enhance survivability of many real-world critical systems (eg, aircrafts, human space flight
systems and dangerous technological processes), mission abort procedures are often …