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http://dx.doi.org/10.5302/J.ICROS.2011.17.11.1132

Reliability Analysis of a System with Redundancy Management Based on Monte-Carlo Probability Model  

Kim, Sung-Su (Inha University)
Park, Sang-Hyuk (Inha University)
Kim, Sung-Hwan (Inha University)
Choi, Kee-Young (Inha University)
Park, Choon-Bae (Inha University)
Ha, Cheol-Keun (University of Ulsan)
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Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems / v.17, no.11, 2011 , pp. 1132-1137 More about this Journal
Abstract
Critical systems with high reliability feature fault tolerant redundancy. Conventional analytical reliability analysis methods that use the Reliability Block Diagram do not adequately reflect characteristics of the redundancy management system and are not suitable for this applications. This paper uses Monte-Carlo method to calculate the reliability of complicated redundant systems. The method was first validated for cases with analytical solutions. Then, the tool was successfully applied to analyze reliability of the flight control systems with a voter as redundancy management system.
Keywords
reliability; redundancy; monte-carlo; reliability block diagram;
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