Mission aborting and system rescue for multi-state systems with arbitrary structure

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Rescue procedures (RP), triggered either by the occurrence of the mission failure or by a
certain undesired system state, are usually applied to survive a life-critical or safety-critical …

Probabilities of mission success and system survival in multi-state systems with arbitrary structure

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Many critical systems are designed with the rescue function to possibly survive the system in
the event of the defined mission not being able to continue. Existing models have focused …

Mission abort policy optimization for series systems with overlapping primary and rescue subsystems operating in a random environment

G Levitin, M Finkelstein, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2020 - Elsevier
This work considers a system consisting of two overlapping subsets of components.
Availability of all components composing the subsets is required for performing the primary …

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 …

Optimal bivariate mission abort policy for systems operate in random shock environment

X Zhao, X Chai, J Sun, Q Qiu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
For many safety-critical systems such as aircrafts, nuclear power plants and human space
flights, system survival has higher priority over mission completion. For the purpose of …

Optimal mission abort policy with multiple abort criteria for a balanced system with multi-state components

S Wang, X Zhao, Z Tian, MJ Zuo - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In some engineering fields, systems are required to complete a mission over a period.
However, for some safety-critical systems, the survival of systems often has higher priority …

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 …

Optimal mission abort policies for repairable multistate systems performing multi-attempt mission

G Levitin, M Finkelstein, Y Xiang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on mission abort strategies was mostly devoted to binary systems that can be only
in two states, ie, operable or failed. However, the real-world systems can often operate in …

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 …

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 …