Determination of reliability for a complex technical system on the example of a mobile medical module

Abstract

The article presents a proposal for a method to determine a total and partial reliability for a mobile medical module as a complex technical system. The dedicated functions of such a module are to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield (in the basic version) and to ensure the maintenance of his vital functions and the performance of necessary medical procedures (in the extended version). Work on developing the concept or advanced construction of such modules using unmanned aerial vehicles as transport drones has been carried out for several years by many countries and aviation companies, including: DARPA agency (USA) and AFIT (Poland). Even though there is no fleet of such machines in Poland yet, this comes from experience in managing aircraft in the Armed Forces RP results from the need to simultaneously secure the operation of such modules in an IT support system using algorithms and mathematical relationships in determining a total and partial reliability . Due to the structural complexity of the mobile medical module (carrier platform, drive, basic and additional avionics equipment and basic and extended medical equipment), a total and partial reliability can be determined for a simple object (in a simplified reliability version as full) or a complex system (as a total and partial reliability).