Title :
Reliability of fault tolerant control systems: Part I
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Binghamton Univ., NY, USA
Abstract :
The reliability analysis of fault-tolerant control systems is performed using Markov models. Reliability properties peculiar to fault-tolerant control systems are emphasized. As a consequence, coverage of failures through redundancy management can be severely limited. It is shown that in the early life of a system composed of highly reliable subsystems, the reliability of the overall system is affine with respect to coverage, and inadequate coverage induces dominant single point failures. The utility of some existing software tools for assessing the reliability of fault tolerant control systems is also discussed
Keywords :
Markov processes; control system analysis computing; fault tolerance; probability; redundancy; reliability theory; robust control; Markov processes; failure probability; fault tolerant control systems; redundancy; reliability assessment; single point failures; software tools; Control system analysis; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; NASA; Performance analysis; Redundancy; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2001. Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7061-9
DOI :
10.1109/.2001.981100
