Reliability Evaluation of a Hexacopter-Based Flight Module of a Tethered Unmanned High-Altitude Platform

This article discusses a model on the basis of a multidimensional Markov process applied for evaluation of the reliability characteristics of a tethered multirotor high-altitude platform based on a hexacopter. The proposed model takes into account the increase in the functional load after the failure of an element on the remaining operating ones, and also takes into account the location of the failed elements. © 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.