Reliability theory and practice for unmanned aerial vehicles

L Xing, BW Johnson - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to rapid advancements on the Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), also known as drones, are transforming numerous military and civil application …

Importance measure-based resilience management: Review, methodology and perspectives on maintenance

H Dui, M Liu, J Song, S Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, frequent natural or man-made disturbances have been accelerating the
study of resilience management. As an important source of system resilience, maintenance …

A multistate network approach for resilience analysis of uav swarm considering information exchange capacity

T Liu, G Bai, J Tao, YA Zhang, Y Fang - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2024 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms can perform tasks in a self-organized and self-
adaptive manner, and are thus appropriate for resilience research. An efficient and resilient …

A dynamic mission abort policy for the swarm executing missions and its solution method by tailored deep reinforcement learning

L Liu, J Yang - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
The mission abort is an effective action to avoid catastrophic accidents and enhance the
survivability of safety-critical systems such as unmanned aerial vehicle swarms and …

Resilience evaluation and optimal design for weapon system of systems with dynamic reconfiguration

Z Chen, D Hong, W Cui, W Xue, Y Wang… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The weapon system of systems (WSoS) is a collection of various weapon systems used to
achieve a common goal and mission. Stakeholders are committed to lowering design costs …

UAV fleet as a dependable service for smart cities: Model-based assessment and application

V Kharchenko, I Kliushnikov, A Rucinski, H Fesenko… - Smart Cities, 2022 - mdpi.com
The paper suggests a model-based approach to assessment and choice of parameters of
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleets applied as one of the main services for Smart Cities …

A soft resource optimization method for improving the resilience of UAV swarms under continuous attack

H Li, Q Sun, Y Zhong, Z Huang, Y Zhang - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2023 - Elsevier
Resilience is a comprehensive metric that measures the ability of an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) swarm to resist and recover after being attacked. Improving resilience is …

Deep reinforcement learning-based resilience enhancement strategy of unmanned weapon system-of-systems under inevitable interferences

Q Sun, H Li, Y Zhong, K Ren, Y Zhang - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2024 - Elsevier
Unmanned weapon system-of-systems (UWSoS) is a collection of unmanned weapon
systems providing multiple interdependent capabilities to support the mission completion …

Reliability analysis and optimization of multi-phased spaceflight with backup missions and mixed redundancy strategy

XY Li, X Li, J Feng, C Li, X Xiong, HZ Huang - Reliability Engineering & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the widespread applications, the reliability analysis and optimization of phased
mission systems (PMSs) have attracted progressively attention, especially in the aerospace …

Remaining useful life prediction of weighted k-out-of-n systems based on dynamic random weights of importance

H Shi, S Xie, X Zhang, G Shi, B Wu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing complexity of various industrial systems, the reliability assessment and
remaining useful life prediction of weighted k-out-of-n systems considering stochastic …