Analysis of assembly operations' difficulty using enhanced expert high-level colored fuzzy Petri net model

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 385-403

  Ben Arieh, D ^a   Kumar, Rajeev Ranjan ^b   Tiwari, M K ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOUNDRY AND FORGE TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Degree of difficulty; Enhanced high level colored Petri net model; Expert Petri net model; Mating based assembly; Triangular fuzzy number

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA STRUCTURES; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PETRI NETS; ROBOTICS;

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY; ENHANCED HIGH-LEVEL COLORED PETRI NET MODEL; EXPERT PETRI NET MODEL; MATING-BASED ASSEMBLY; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBER;

PROGRAM ASSEMBLERS;

EID: 3242733798     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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