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posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by Stephen B. Stancliff, John M. Dolan, Ashitey Trebi-OllennuThis paper presents a method using stochastic
simulation to evaluate the reliability of robot teams
consisting of modular robots. For an example
planetary exploration mission we use this method to
compare the performance of a repairable robot team
with spare modules versus nonrepairable robot teams.
Our results show that for this mission a repairable
robot team can provide a higher probability of mission
completion than a nonrepairable team, even when the
nonrepairable robots are built using components with
an order of magnitude greater reliability than the
repairable robots.