On interval methods applied to robot reliability quantification

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-303

  Carreras, C ^a   Walker, I D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; MANIPULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBOTICS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

INTERVAL GRIDS; INTERVAL METHODS; RELIABILITY QUANTIFICATION;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0034559425     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(00)00063-6     Document Type: Article

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