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    Area of Science:

    • Complex Systems Safety
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Sensor Data Fusion

    Background:

    • Current safety assessment methods for complex systems often rely solely on expert judgment, neglecting valuable sensor data.
    • Sensor data quality is compromised by uncertainties like perturbations, reducing the accuracy of traditional evidential reasoning (ER) models.
    • This leads to decreased modeling accuracy and potentially flawed safety assessments.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a new ER-based safety assessment method that incorporates sensor reliability and system perturbations.
    • To enhance the accuracy and robustness of safety assessments for complex systems by utilizing sensor observations.
    • To address the limitations of existing methods that ignore sensor data quality and uncertainties.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a novel ER rule incorporating sensor reliability and perturbation.
    • Employed the coefficient of variation-based weighting (CVBW) method to determine sensor weights.
    • Calculated sensor reliability using static (expert-based) and dynamic (distance-based) measures.
    • Quantified system uncertainties using a perturbation factor to aggregate reliability metrics.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed method demonstrates improved safety assessment performance by considering sensor reliability and perturbations.
    • Performance analysis validated the rationality of incorporating perturbation and identifying underperforming sensors.
    • A case study confirmed the effectiveness of the developed safety assessment algorithm.

    Conclusions:

    • The new method offers a more comprehensive approach to complex system safety assessment by integrating sensor data and expert knowledge.
    • Accounting for sensor reliability and perturbations significantly enhances the accuracy of ER-based safety models.
    • The findings provide a practical framework for improving the safety and reliability of complex engineered systems.