A practical framework to evaluate and select robots for assembly operations

Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-167

  Ghrayeb, Omar ^a   Phojanamongkolkij, Nipa ^a   Marcellus, Richard ^a   Zhao, Wayne ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly cycle time; Assembly operations; Robot selection; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SELECTION;

ASSEMBLY CYCLE TIME; ASSEMBLY OPERATIONS; ROBOT SELECTION; TOPSIS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 10644234736     PISSN: 02196867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219686704000508     Document Type: Review

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