%0 Journal Article
	%A Leila Jafari and  Viliam Makis and  Akram Khaleghei G.B.
	%D 2014
	%J International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 93, 2014
	%T Optimal Maintenance Policy for a Partially Observable Two-Unit System
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/9999428
	%V 93
	%X In this paper, we present a maintenance model of a
two-unit series system with economic dependence. Unit#1 which is
considered to be more expensive and more important, is subject to
condition monitoring (CM) at equidistant, discrete time epochs and
unit#2, which is not subject to CM has a general lifetime distribution.
The multivariate observation vectors obtained through condition
monitoring carry partial information about the hidden state of unit#1,
which can be in a healthy or a warning state while operating. Only the
failure state is assumed to be observable for both units. The objective
is to find an optimal opportunistic maintenance policy minimizing
the long-run expected average cost per unit time. The problem
is formulated and solved in the partially observable semi-Markov
decision process framework. An effective computational algorithm
for finding the optimal policy and the minimum average cost is
developed, illustrated by a numerical example.

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