FORMULAS FOR ANALYZING A REDUNDANT ROBOT CONFIGURATION WITH A BUILT-IN SAFETY SYSTEM

Authors
Citation
Bs. Dhillon et N. Yang, FORMULAS FOR ANALYZING A REDUNDANT ROBOT CONFIGURATION WITH A BUILT-IN SAFETY SYSTEM, Microelectronics and reliability, 37(4), 1997, pp. 557-563
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
ISSN journal
00262714
Volume
37
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
557 - 563
Database
ISI
SICI code
0026-2714(1997)37:4<557:FFAARR>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
This paper presents formulas to perform reliability and availability a nalyses of a system having two identical robots and one safety system. Formulas for system expected time to failure, reliability, and Laplac e transforms of system availability are developed along with various p lots demonstrating the end results. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Scienc e Ltd.