Optimal inspection and mission abort policies for systems subject to degradation

X Zhao, J Sun, Q Qiu, K Chen - European Journal of Operational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Safety-critical systems are commonly required to perform missions in various engineering
fields. Failures of safety-critical systems may result in irretrievable economic losses and …

Multi-criteria mission abort policy for systems subject to two-stage degradation process

X Zhao, Y Fan, Q Qiu, K Chen - European Journal of Operational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Failures of mission-critical systems may result in irretrievable economic losses and
significant damages. Mission abort is an effective way to reduce the risk of casualties and …

Reliability evaluation of demand-based warm standby systems with capacity storage

H Jia, R Peng, L Yang, T Wu, D Liu, Y Li - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2022 - Elsevier
Warm standby is an energy-saving redundancy technique that consumes less energy than a
conventional hot standby method. It can be naturally integrated with an energy storage …

Mission risk control via joint optimization of sampling and abort decisions

L Yang, F Wei, Q Qiu - Risk Analysis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Information‐driven mission abort is an effective way to control the failure risk of
safety‐critical systems during mission executions. We investigate the optimal sampling and …

Joint modeling of loading and mission abort policies for systems operating in dynamic environments

X Zhao, R Li, S Cao, Q Qiu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Failures of safety-critical systems may cause huge economic losses and irretrievable
disasters. The dynamic operating environment of such systems makes it more difficult to …

Reliability evaluation of a k-out-of-n (G)-subsystem based multi-state phased mission system with common bus performance sharing subjected to common cause …

C Cheng, J Yang, L Li - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Multi-state phased mission systems (MS-PMSs) with common bus performance sharing
widely exist in practice. Their subsystems are often designed as redundant k-out-of-n (G) …

Optimal stopping problems for mission oriented systems considering time redundancy

Q Qiu, M Kou, K Chen, Q Deng, F Kang, C Lin - Reliability Engineering & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Catastrophic failures of safety-critical systems could result in irretrievable economic losses
and damage. To enhance the survivability of safety-critical systems, a mission can be …

Reliability assessment of multi-state phased mission systems with common bus performance sharing considering transmission loss and performance storage

C Cheng, J Yang, L Li - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-state phased mission systems (MS-PMSs) with common bus performance sharing
widely exist in practical engineering, such as intelligent transmission systems and power …

Optimal routing, aborting and hitting strategies of UAVs executing hitting the targets considering the defense range of targets

X Zhu, X Zhu, R Yan, R Peng - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper is an attempt to investigate optimal routing, aborting and hitting strategies of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) executing hitting tasks. Several factors such as time …

Recent advances on reliability of phased mission systems

D Wu, R Peng, L Xing - Stochastic Models in Reliability, Network Security …, 2019 - Springer
Many practical systems need to fulfill their mission in multiple phases, where the system in
different phases may have to perform different tasks undergoing different environmental …