Recovery time

This parameter is applicable to measurements of recovery. It may be used for control management, to decide about the machine taking the control, overriding the operator commands.

Definition

Recovery time is the it time it take to manage a hazard , including detection, identification, troubleshooting and resuming routine operation. The measure is the time elapsed since the hazard detection until recovery

Method

The designers may define critical recovery time per hazard, based on risk analysis, and store it in the rule knowledge base.

At run time, the grace time based on trend analysis, and informs the supervision station about the grace time reaching the critical recovery time. The supervision station can decide (either automatically or following approval by the supervisor) that the machine should take the control, overriding the operator's input.

Example

A pilot does not notice that the airplane is about to crash.

The cockpit computer computes the grace time. If the grace time approaches the preset recovery time, the computer may take over the pilot.

Guidelines

  The functional unit should send the measurements to the

  The grace time and inform the supervision unit about the risk.

  The supervision unit should transfer the control from the operator to the machine..

 

 

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Updated on 06 Apr 2016.