Reliability analysis of the 21st century technologies

今天，数十亿美元正在全世界范围内用于机器人，医疗保健和互联网等领域。 这些领域的新发展将在塑造本世纪方面发挥重要作用。 机器人必须安全可靠。 多年来，由于死亡和其他问题，机器人的可靠性和安全性已成为一个紧迫的问题。在医疗保健中，由于高死亡率和高成本，设备和人的可靠性和安全性也已成为一个紧迫的问题。 例如，在美国的医疗保健系统中，每年有超过10万美国人死于人为错误。 这些错误对美国经济的财务影响估计在170亿至290亿美元之间。今天，互联网已经成为一个重要的日常工具。 它的可靠性和安全性与其他两个领域的可靠性和安全性一样重要。 因此，这一可靠性和安全性研究将在三个主要领域进行指导：（一）加拿大工业，医疗保健和互联网用户部门的调查;（二）在执行可靠性和安全性分析中使用的方法和技术的识别;（三）新方法，技术和模型的开发。 这项研究将导致更好地了解有关加拿大工业部门和其他领域的机器人，卫生系统和互联网可靠性和安全问题的状态，确定所有这些部门使用的最有用的方法和技术，以及为当前技术失败的情况开发新的方法和程序。

Today, billion of dollars are being spent world wide in areas such as robotics, health care, and Internet.  New developments in these areas will play an instrumental role in shaping this century.                        A robot must be safe and reliable.  Over the years reliability and safety of robots have become a pressing issue because of fatalities and other problems. In health care reliability and safety of equipment and humans have also become a pressing issue because of high fatalities and cost.  For example, in the United States health care system over 100,000 Americans die each year due to human errors.  The financial impact of these errors on the US economy is estimated to be somewhere between $17 billion and $29 billion. Today, Internet has become an important day to day tool.  Its reliability and security are as important as the reliability and safety in the other two areas.                                                                                                         Thus, this reliability and safety research will be directed in three main areas: (i) survey of Canadian industrial, health care, and Internet user sectors; (ii) identification of methods and techniques in use in performing reliability and safety analyses; (iii) development of new methods, techniques, and models.                                       This research will result in better knowledge concerning the state of robot, health system, and Internet reliability and safety problems in Canadian industrial sectors and other areas, identification of the most useful methods and techniques for use by all these sectors, and the development of new approaches and procedures for situations where current techniques fail.