C0-Semigroups Approach to the Reliability Model Based on Robot-Safety System

This paper considers a system with one robot and n safety units (one of which works while the others remain on standby), which is described by an integro-deferential equation. The system can fail in the following three ways: fails with an incident, fails safely and fails due to the malfunction of the robot. Using the C-0-semigroups theory of linear operators, we first show that the system has a unique non-negative, time-dependent solution. Then, we obtain the exponential convergence of the time-dependent solution to its steady-state solution. In addition, we study the asymptotic behavior of some time-dependent reliability indices and present a numerical example demonstrating the effects of different parameters on the system.