Reliability Assessment of Heterogeneous Drone Fleet With Sliding Redundancy

Reliability analysis of system is a complex problem. One important step is reliability analysis is development of mathematical representation of the investigated system. Modern system is composed by many components with different attributes and properties that should be taken into account in his reliability analysis. Therefore, it is important to choose suitable approach for representation of the system behavior. One such approach is known as structure function. In this paper we will show how the structure function of the system can be used to acquire the reliability function. The specific aspect of this approach is the possibility to use for system with homogenous and heterogeneous components. This will be shown on the reliability analysis of the drone fleet.

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