TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper presents reliability and availability analyses of a robot‐safety system having one robot and n‐redundant safety units with common‐cause failures. The system failure rates and the partially failed system repair rates are assumed constant, and the failed system repair time is assumed arbitrarily distributed. Markov and the supplementary variable methods were used to perform mathematical analysis of this model. Generalized expressions for state probabilities, system availabilities, reliability, mean time to failure, and variance of time to failure are developed. Some plots of these expressions are shown.
VL  - 10
IS  - 2
SN  - 1355-2511
DO  - 10.1108/13552510410539204
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/13552510410539204
AU  - Dhillon B.S.
AU  - Li Zhijian
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - Stochastic analysis of a maintainable robot‐safety system with common‐cause failures
T2  - Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 136
EP  - 147
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -