Autonomous systems, including airborne, land-based, marine, and underwater vehicles, are
increasingly present in the world. One important aspect of autonomy is the capability to …

Autonomous systems are becoming more commonly used, especially in hazardous
situations. Such systems are expected to make their own decisions about future actions …

The use of autonomous systems is becoming increasingly common in many fields. A
significant example of this is the ambition to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for …

In this paper, we propose to optimize both the assignment of missions and the maintenance
scheduling of moving systems (eg trains) in a Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) …

Autonomous systems are being increasingly used in many areas. A significant example is
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), regularly being called upon to perform tasks in the …

System of systems (SoS) engineering is an emerging sub-discipline, within which modelling
and simulation is a key area. The failure of many SoS endeavours can be attributed to the …

In the real practice of multi-AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) cooperative systems,
tasks or malfunctions will change the topology. The process of mutative topology structure …

This article describes the state-of-the-art methods available for systems reliability
assessment. The significant contributions made to those methods in common use for the …

There is an increasing demand for quantitative risk assessment tools capable of providing
safety assurances for autonomous vehicle control systems. This demand is due to the recent …

In 1996, a concept was proposed by the UK Ministry of Defence with the intention of making
the field of reliability more useful to the end user, particularly within the field of military …