Optimizing and analyzing reliability through redundancy by meta-heuristic algorithms for a drone

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Faculty of Aerospace, Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran

2 Director of Flight Department of Imam Ali University

Abstract
Quadcopters are a special type of unmanned drones that have many applications in today's world. Due to limited resources, the design of a system must be done in such a way as to achieve the highest possible amount of reliability based on our limited resources.
For this purpose, first the reliability of each subsystem was calculated. Then the reliability was optimized using computer algorithms. One of the conventional methods of increasing the reliability of systems is to use redundancies, but due to its limitations Finance and mass for quadcopters, we cannot use any number of extras to increase reliability. Therefore, optimization should be used. The most famous meta-heuristic algorithms can be mentioned as Genetic Algorithm, Coco, Ant Colony, Gray Wolf, etc.
With the help of the firefly algorithm and reliability model, the quadcopter was checked in the presence of redundancy in terms of cost and mass minimization and having the most optimal reliability, and the resulting results were validated by genetic algorithm.

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