With its extensive use in industry, assessing the reliability of the micro inertial measurment
unit (MIMU) has become a pressing need. Unfortunately, the MIMU is made up of several
components, and the degradation processes of each are intertwined, making it difficult to
assess the MIMU’s reliability and remaining useful life. In this research, we offer a reliability assessment approach for the MIMU, which has long-lifetime and multiple performance characteristics (PCs), based on accelerated degradation data and copula theory.Each PC
model of MIMU is constructed utilizing drift Brownian motion to depict accelerated degradation process. The copula function is used to model the multivariate dependent accelerated
degradation test data and to describe the dependency between multiple MIMU performance
parameters. The particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to estimate the unknown
parameters in the multi-dependent ADT model. Finally, the storage test and simulation example on MIMU’s accelerated degradation data verify the feasibility and effectiveness of
the proposed method.