Development of a MATLAB tool based on graph theory for evaluating reliability of complex mechatronic systems

Author

Ahmad, A. ; Rizvi, M.A.K. ; Al-Lawati, A. ; Mohammed, I. ; Malik, A.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Sultan Qaboos Univ., Muscat, Oman

fYear

2015

fDate

1-4 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Evaluation of reliability is very important entity for the design and operation of systems. The safety, dependability, availability, Mean Time To Failure (MTTF), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and life cycle of the designed system can be judged from this reliability evaluation. For simple systems, the evaluation is straightforward. However, for complex systems, an algorithmic procedure is required. This paper presents an algorithmic procedure based on information matrices derived from graph theoretic approach. A simulation tool is developed that applies the algorithm to evaluate the reliability of complex systems.

Keywords

graph theory; mechatronics; reliability; MATLAB tool; MTBF; MTTF; MTTR; algorithmic procedure; availability; complex mechatronic systems; complex systems; dependability; graph theory; information matrices; life cycle; mean time between failure; mean time to failure; mean time to repair; reliability evaluation; safety; simulation tool; Reliability theory; Tin; MATLAB; algorithm; connection matrix; cut set; graph theory; incidence matrix; reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCCCE), 2015 IEEE 8th

Conference_Location

Muscat

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEEGCC.2015.7060067

Filename

7060067