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First, due to temporal uncertainty and measurement error in the univariate degradation process, a general Wiener-process-based state space model is constructed to determine the marginal distributions. Secondly, the nonlinear and asymmetric correlation between variables is analyzed by the nonparametric Chatterjee correlation coefficient. The multivariate joint degradation model is constructed by combining the Vine copula technique. The copula structure selection is optimized based on the goodness-of-fit criterion for modeling the degradation dependency network. In order to verify the validity of the method, comparative experiments based on the C-MAPSS aero-engine degradation dataset are conducted. Compared with the independent model ignoring the correlation of the variables, Vine copula with Chatterjee coefficient shows the rationality of the system reliability assessment. The system reliability curve lies between the cases of complete independence and complete dependence of variables. Compared to the traditional Vine copula model with Kendall coefficient, the method in this paper shows a significant improvement in asymmetric correlation characterization, with a Vuong test value of 6.37. The assessment method given in this paper provided an improved paradigm for reliability assessments of complex systems.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems13110953","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,30]],"date-time":"2025-10-30T05:08:47Z","timestamp":1761800927000},"page":"953","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Reliability Assessment for Multivariate Degradation System Based on Uncertainty and Chatterjee Correlation Coefficient"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Jiayin","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-9572-9914","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mengjia","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yamin","family":"Mao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CETC Rong Wei Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Chengdu 610036, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1944","article-title":"Perspectives on data-driven operation monitoring and self-optimization of industrial processes","volume":"44","author":"Liu","year":"2018","journal-title":"Acta Autom. 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