A revised weighted sum decision model for robot selection

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 193-199

  Goh, Chon Huat ^a   Tung, Yung Chin Alex ^b   Cheng, Chun Hung ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SELECTION;

DECISION MODEL; REVISED WEIGHTED SUM; ROBOT SELECTION;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 0030127493     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-8352(95)00167-0     Document Type: Article

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