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 …

A two-dimensional maintenance optimization framework balancing hazard risk and energy consumption rates

D Wu, R Han, Y Ma, L Yang, F Wei, R Peng - Computers & Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerous power assets, such as power cables and refrigerator, have inevitably confronted
with severe energy consumption problems. An essential topic in maintenance engineering …

Importance Measures Based on System Performance Loss for Multi-State Phased-Mission Systems

C ZHANG, Q Jingming, W Shaoping, C Rentong… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2024 - Elsevier
It is essential to identify weaknesses in a complex phased-mission system (PMS) in the early
design or maintenance stage using importance measures to ensure high reliability and …

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

C Wang, L Xing, J Yu, Q Guan, C Yang, M Yu - Reliability Engineering & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many technological and computing systems deployed for critical missions, like unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) and wireless sensor networks, are often designed with redundancies …

Multivalued decision diagram-based common cause failure analysis in phased-mission systems

C Wang, L Xing, B Tang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to a shock or shared root cause, multiple system components may fail at the same time
contributing significantly to the entire system failure. Such dependent component failures are …

Efficient reliability analysis of generalized k-out-of-n phased-mission systems

G Chen, Y Hu, C Wang, Z Wu, W Rong… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2025 - Elsevier
A k-out-of-n phased-mission system (PMS) is a PMS where the system structure is k-out-of-n:
G in each phase. This paper investigates k-out-of-n PMSs with phase-K-out-of-N …

Series phased-mission systems with heterogeneous warm standby components

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Xiang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
In many industrial and aerospace systems, multiple and non-overlapping phases of
operations must be performed consecutively, and each phase is performed by a different …

Reliability of integrated electricity and gas supply system with performance substitution and sharing mechanisms

Y Ma, Y Chi, D Wu, R Peng, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
The reliability of a system that shares a single type of resource with others has been studied
in the literature. In reality, a system may require different types of resources. For example, a …

Reliability analysis of dynamic voting phased-mission systems

C Wang, L Xing, Y Su, Q Guan, B Tang, Y Hu - Reliability Engineering & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Many computing and technological systems can be modeled as a dynamic voting phased
mission system (VPMS), which performs a pre-specified task in multiple consecutive phases …

A multi-stage imperfect maintenance strategy for multi-state systems with variable user demands

W Dong, S Liu, SJ Bae, Y Liu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The main purpose of this paper is to schedule an imperfect maintenance policy for a single
unit multi-state system (MSS) exhibiting more than two output states in the duration of its …