Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (3): 913-920.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.03.33

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Approximate calculation method for residual life of cold standby system

Qian ZHAO1,2, Yao TAN1, Bo WU2, Ping JIANG1,*, Bo GUO1   

  1. 1. College of Systems Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410005, China
    2. College of Information Communication, National University of Defense Technology, Xi'an 710106, China
  • Received:2021-02-21 Online:2023-02-25 Published:2023-03-09
  • Contact: Ping JIANG

Abstract:

Cold standby redundancy is an important approach to increase the reliability of a system. However, research on the residual life of k-out-of-n cold standby system is insufficient because of its structure's complexity. Thus, an approximate calculation method is proposed to fill this gap. Firstly, the analytical method, the numerical method and the simulation method are used and the reliability of this system at any certain time can be obtained. Then, based on the compound Simpson formula, the point estimation as well as the confidence interval of residual life of cold standby system can be calculated. The bias of this numerical method is discussed and factors affecting the calculation approximate precision of the proposed method are analyzed. The proposed method then proves to be quite simple, efficient and accurate. By comparing with the existing methods, the suitability of the proposed method is validated.

Key words: cold standby system, residual life estimation, compound Simpson formula

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