A  Survey  of  NASA  and  Military Standards  on  Fault  Tolerance  and
                    Reliability  Applied  to  Robotics



              Joseph R. Cavallaro and Ian D. Walker
                 cavallar@rice.edu    ianw@rice.edu

         Dept.  of Electrical and Computer Engineering
                Rice University, Houston, TX 77251


                              Abstract

           There is currently increasing interest and activity in
       the area of reliability and fault tolerance for robotics.
       This paper discusses the application of Standards in
       robot reliability, and surveys the literature of relevant
       existing standards. A bibliography of relevant Military
       and NASA standards for reliability and fault tolerance is
       included.