Optimal mission abort policies for multistate systems

• Published in: Reliability engineering & system safety Vol. 193; p. 106671
• Main Authors: Levitin, Gregory, Finkelstein, Maxim, Huang, Hong-Zong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Barking Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2020; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Binary systems; Mission abort; Mission success probability; Multi-state system; Optimization; Policies; Probability; Reliability engineering; Renewal process of shocks; Survival; System survival probability; System survival probability; Multi-state system; Mission success probability; Mission abort; Renewal process of shocks

•A multi-state system with variable performance is considered;•The system performs a mission in a random environment modeled by the renewal process of shocks;•The mission is aborted and rescue operation is activated upon occurrence of mth shock;•An algorithm for obtaining mission success and system...