...Afshin Yaghoubi; Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki; Hadi Rostamzadeh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to derive a closed-form expression for the steady-state availability of a cold standby repairable k-out-of-n system. This makes the availability calculation much easier and accurate...

... factors (e.g. the operators’ skill) on the robot reliability characteristics. Findings A model based on the Weibull renewal process combined with the cold standby strategy is developed for reliability evaluation of the system. The effectiveness of the proposed integrated reliability evaluation model...