International Journal of Control, Vol.84, No.11, 1796-1806, 2011
Non-coherence in safety of switching control systems and its Markov analysis
This article appropriately describes the safety dynamics of switching control systems under the most realistic and popular failure mode of a switching unit, 'locking', by introducing a new idea of situation-dependent basic events in dynamic fault trees with restorable basic events. As a result, possible non-coherence in the safety dynamics is pointed out for the first time. This article also presents a safety analysis framework based on the Markov analysis in order to address the non-coherence correctly.