While multiple sensing and backup systems are designed to prevent a catastrophe, drones, while very reliable, are still machines and while the chances are remote, subject to an inflight malfunction resulting in possible injury and economic loss.
A radiation-induced damage caused by the ionizing radiation can induce a malfunctioning of the remote handling equipment (RHE) used during maintenance in fusion power plants, other nuclear power stations and high-energy accelerators facilities like e.g. IFMIF.
UPDATE (11 December): The mailspool server is down again, and its remote management system seems to be malfunctioning.
In T.S.B. L28 issued on March 26, Chrysler said the exterior door handles might malfunction on 2011 models with remote locking key fobs.
In remote locations, such as underwater or on other planets, "malfunctioning of some components is a very likely event," he says.
When the batteries in the remote started to run down, users thought the television was malfunctioning.
This was the underlying rationale for announcements from professional societies for 'development and utilization of wireless and remote monitoring technologies', carrying the expectation of early detection and correction of device malfunction.
The pilot had been ordered to spray the deadly chemical over a target site in the remote proving ground, but at 8 29, before the mission was completed, the aircraft malfunctioned.
And in 2008 Dr Fu and his colleagues published a paper detailing the remote, wireless reprogramming of an implantable defibrillator.When software in a medical device malfunctions, the consequences can be far more serious than just having to reboot your PC.
Recently, remote monitoring with automatic data transmission has also been shown to improve the early detection of device malfunction and asymptomatic arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation.
Pacemaker malfunction -- 5-9.
