In this paper a variety of battery configuration topologies for electrified vehicles are investigated with regard to reliability and expected lifetime along with the possibility of applying active fault detection to provide early warnings for the driver. Different configurations are investigated ranging from a simple single serial string of battery cells providing only the lowest level of fault...

Due to the limited resolution at depth of geodetic and other geophysical data, the geometry and the loading rate of the ramp-décollement faults below the metropolitan Los Angeles are poorly understood. Here we complement these data by assuming conservation of motion across the Big Bend of the San Andreas Fault. Using a Bayesian approach, we constrain the geometry of the ramp-décollement system ...

We present a scheme to guarantee that the execution of real-time tasks can tolerate transient and intermittent faults assuming any queue-based scheduling technique. The scheme is based on reserving su cient slack in a schedule such that a task can be re-executed before its deadline without compromising guarantees given to other tasks. Only enough slack is reserved in the schedule to guarantee f...

In this paper, we have modified the Jelinski-Moranda (J-M) model of software reliability using imperfect debugging process in fault removal activity. The J-M model was developed assuming the debugging process to be perfect which implies that there is one-to-one correspondence between the number of failures observed and faults removed. But in reality, it is possible that the fault which is suppo...

ÐReal-time systems are being increasingly used in several applications which are time-critical in nature. Fault tolerance is an essential requirement of such systems, due to the catastrophic consequences of not tolerating faults. In this paper, we study a scheme that guarantees the timely recovery from multiple faults within hard real-time constraints in uniprocessor systems. Assuming earliestd...

This paper presents a method to increase the reliability of UAV sensor fault detection in a multiUAV context. The method uses additional position estimations that augment individual UAV fault detection system. These additional estimations are obtained using images from the same planar scene taken from two different UAVs. Since accuracy and noise level of the estimation depends on several factor...

The token ring topology is required in token passing approach used in distributed operating systems. Fault tolerance is also required in the designs of distributed systems. Note that 1-fault-tolerant design for token rings is equivalent to design of 1-Hamiltonian graphs. This paper introduces a new family of graphs called Christmas tree, denoted by CT(s). The graph CT(s) is a 3-regular, planar,...

The demand for fault-tolerant execution on high performance computer systems increases due to higher fault rates resulting from smaller structure sizes. As an alternative to hardware-based lockstep solutions, software-based fault-tolerance mechanisms can increase the reliability of multi-core commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) CPUs while being cheaper and more flexible. This paper proposes a softwa...

Earthquake-related fault slip in the upper hundreds of meters of Earth's surface has remained largely unstudied because of challenges measuring deformation in the near field of a fault rupture. We analyze centimeter-scale accuracy mobile laser scanning (MLS) data of deformed vine rows within ±300 m of the principal surface expression of the M (magnitude) 6.0 2014 South Napa earthquake. Rather t...