Increasing the reliability of high redundancy actuators by using elements in series and parallel

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5775 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 270-282

  Steffen, Thomas ^a   Schiller, Frank ^b   Blum, Michael ^b   Dixon, Roger ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dependable systems; Failure probability; Fault mode and effect analysis (FMEA); Fault tolerance; High redundancy actuator (HRA); K out of n:G system; Multi state system

Indexed keywords

DEPENDABLE SYSTEMS; FAILURE PROBABILITY; FAULT MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS (FMEA); HIGH REDUNDANCY ACTUATOR (HRA); K-OUT-OF-N:G SYSTEM; MULTI-STATE SYSTEM;

ACTUATORS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; REDUNDANCY; SAFETY FACTOR; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 70350440691     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04468-7_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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