This paper presents a method using stochastic simulation to evaluate the reliability of robot teams consisting of modular robots. For an example planetary exploration mission we use this method to compare the performance of a repairable robot team with spare modules versus nonrepairable robot teams. Our results show that for this mission a repairable robot team can provide a higher probability ...

Railway electrification has attracted substantial interest in recent years as a key part of the global effort to achieve transport decarbonization. To improve energy efficiency train operations, particular is optimization speed trajectories. However, most studies formulate problem single-objective model and do not take into account mass uncertainty associated with passenger load variations. Thi...

A method for computing minimum cost trajectory planning for industrial robot manipulators is presented. The objective function minimizes the cost function with the constraints being joint positions, velocities, jerks and torques by considering dynamic equations of motion. A clamped cubic spline is used to represent the trajectory. This is a non-linear constrained optimization problem. The probl...

In Multi-objective Optimization the goal is to present a set of Pareto-optimal solutions to the decision maker (DM). One out of these solutions is then chosen according to the DM preferences. Given that the DM has some general idea of what type of solution is preferred, a more efficient optimization could be run. This can be accomplished by letting the optimization algorithm make use of this pr...

In this paper new measures of joint importance two and three components for repairable multistate systems based on the classical Birnbaum measure, are proposed. By considering system, first relevancy conditions given. Then probabilities each measured. The proposed method is applied a data set. An illustrative example As in generic since they depend probabilistic properties system structure. The...

Feedback controls are usually designed to achieve multiple and often conflicting performance goals. These incommensurable objectives can be found in both time and frequency domains. For instance, one may want to design a control system such that the closed-loop system response to a step input has a minimum percentage overshoot (Mp), peak time (tp), rise time (tr), settling time (ts), tracking e...

Ever-increasing energy demand has led to geographic expansion of transmission lines and their complexity. In addition, higher reliability is expected in the transmission systemsdue to their vital role in power systems. It is very difficult to realize this goal by conventional monitoring and control methods. Thus, phasor measurement units (PMUs) are used to measure system parameters. Although in...

This paper proposes a novel Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm for hardware software partitioning of embedded systems. Customized genetic algorithms (GA) have been effectively used for solving complex optimization problems (NP Hard) but are mainly applied to optimize a particular solution with respect to a single objective. Many real world problems in embedded systems have multiple objectiv...

A CSS1†is a system with the continues-state components. When a component has the ability to obtain all the situations from completely working to completely failed, it named continues-state component. In the real world, performance rate of elements are continuous and decrease by time. Continuity of components causes infinite working states and grows up the system states. In this paper we propose...