Reliability Measures and Optimal Maintenance Policies for a Standby System with Repair Facilities Subject to Breakdown |
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Institution: | 1. Automatic Control Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), Llorens i Artigas, 4–6, Barcelona 08028, Spain;2. Departamento de Ingenierí-a Eléctrica y Electrónica, Universidad de los Andes, Carrera 1 No 18A-10, Bogotá, Colombia;3. Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla 41092, Spain |
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Abstract: | The problem of determining optimal maintenance policies for a repairable standby system whose repair facilities are subject to random breakdowns is considered. The reliability measures of this system are derived by the discrete-state continuous-time Markov model, as well as by a more general probabilistic approach. The dynamic optimization problem is discussed and treated by a generalized version of Pontryagin's minimum principle based on an integral Hamiltonian functional. This is applied to the Markov model of the system for deriving both time-variable and fixed maintenance policies over the whole mission time. Then an appropriate cost function, involving a maintenance cost term and a down-time cost term, is minimized with respect to the vector repair rate function u(t) subject to the practical constraint 0 ⩽ u(t) ⩽ U, where U is a given upper repair rate limit. A particular nontrivial example is given. |
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