RELIABILITY ANALYSIS METHOD OF SAFETY-CRITICAL AVIONICS SYSTEM BASED ON DYNAMIC FAULT TREE UNDER FUZZY UNCERTAINTY

A safety-critical avionics system has to qualify the performance related requirements and the safety-related requirements simultaneously. This paper presents a comprehensive study on the reliability analysis method for safety-critical avionics system by using dynamic fault tree approach based on Markov chain. The reliability models were constructed applying dynamic fault tree (DFT) modeling method according to deeply analysis of the typical failure modes, causes and influence of the safety-critical avionics system by considering the aspect of repairable feature and redundancy. Taking into account the both failure phenomenon of safety-critical avionics system and many uncertainties exist in the fault status and fault reasons, fuzzy sets theory is introduced into dynamic fault tree method. Specifically, it adopts expert elicitation and fuzzy set theory to evaluate the failure rates of the basic events for safety-critical avionics system. Furthermore, the fuzzy dynamic fault tree analysis method for safety-critical avionics system based on the consecutive parameter Markov chain is proposed. The modularization design was utilized to divide the dynamic fault trees into static and dynamic sub-trees. The static tree was solved by binary decision diagram (BDD) and the dynamic tree was solved by Markov chain method. The results show that the proposed method is more flexible and adaptive than conventional fault tree analysis for fault diagnosis and reliability estimation of safety-critical avionics system.