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Optimal Abort Rules for Multiattempt Missions

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  • Gregory Levitin
  • Maxim Finkelstein
  • Hong‐Zhong Huang

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Many real‐world systems use mission aborts to enhance their survivability. Specifically, a mission can be aborted when a certain malfunction condition is met and a risk of a system loss in the case of a mission continuation becomes too high. Usually, the rescue or recovery procedure is initiated upon the mission abort. Previous works have discussed a setting when only one attempt to complete a mission is allowed and this attempt can be aborted. However, missions with a possibility of multiple attempts can occur in different real‐world settings when accomplishing a mission is really important and the cost‐related and the time‐wise restrictions for this are not very severe. The probabilistic model for the multiattempt case is suggested and the tradeoff between the overall mission success probability (MSP) and a system loss probability is discussed. The corresponding optimization problems are formulated. For the considered illustrative example, a detailed sensitivity analysis is performed that shows specifically that even when the system's survival is not so important, mission aborting can be used to maximize the multiattempt MSP.

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  • Gregory Levitin & Maxim Finkelstein & Hong‐Zhong Huang, 2019. "Optimal Abort Rules for Multiattempt Missions," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 39(12), pages 2732-2743, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:riskan:v:39:y:2019:i:12:p:2732-2743
    DOI: 10.1111/risa.13371
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