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IMPORTANCE SAMPLING AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF HYBRID DYNAMIC SYSTEMS REPRESENTED BY PIECEWISE DETERMINISTIC MARKOV PROCESSES

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Abstract

A natural way to assess the reliability of a complex industrial system is to carry out numerical simulations that reproduce the behavior of the system. The PyCATSHOO1 tool developed by Électricité De France (EDF R&D) allows the modeling of such systems through the framework of piecewise deterministic Markov processes (PDMP). These processes have a discrete stochastic behavior (failures, reconfigurations, control mechanisms, repairs, etc.) in interaction with continuous deterministic physical phenomena. It is well known that for sufficiently rare events, crude Monte-Carlo methods require a very large number of simulations to accurately estimate their probability of occurrence. We propose an adaptive importance sampling strategy based on a Cross-Entropy method to reduce the cost of estimating the probability of system failure2 . The success of this method depends crucially on the family of instrumental laws used to approximate the optimal law. We construct this family according to the PDMP structure of the system, in particular according to the configuration of its minimal failure groups. Finally, we propose different sensitivity analysis techniques3 to reduce the dimension of the problem and to determine the respective contributions of different component failure modes to the probability of system mission loss. We present an application of this strategy on a test case from the nuclear industry: the spent fuel pool.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2021
EditorsBruno Castanier, Marko Cepin, David Bigaud, Christophe Berenguer
PublisherResearch Publishing, Singapore
Pages3274
Number of pages1
ISBN (Print)9789811820168
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2021
Event31st European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2021 - Angers, France
Duration: 19 Sept 202123 Sept 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2021

Conference

Conference31st European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2021
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityAngers
Period19/09/2123/09/21

Keywords

  • Cross Entropy
  • Dimension reduction
  • Hybrid dynamic systems
  • Importance sampling
  • Piecewise deterministic Markov processes
  • Rare event simulation
  • Sensitivity analysis

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