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An Approach for the Reliability Analysis of Automotive Control Systems

Authors:
Mikhail Glukhikh
Mikhail Moiseev
Harald Richter

Keywords: reliability analysis; automotive control system

Abstract:
In this paper, we present an approach and a tool that automates and thereby accelerates the most time-consuming phases of reliability engineering. In this approach, an operational function is computed automatically from a high-level system description by using of system components' properties, fault types propagation rules and other auxiliary information. The tool allows arbitrary component types, any component couplings and failure types and covers thus mandatory features for a profound reliability analysis. It calculates the mean time to failure, the mean fault number and the components' influence on the overall reliability as system reliability characteristics. This tool was tested by a major car manufacturer in an embedded electronic system of a car. The main advantage of the developed tool is that it simplifies reliability analysis of complex-structured systems using a novel method for system operational state description.

Pages: 51 to 56

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: August 21, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4324

ISBN: 978-1-61208-149-6

Location: Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France

Dates: from August 21, 2011 to August 27, 2011