Reliability analysis of complex robotic system using Petri nets and fuzzy lambda-tau methodology

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 354-364

  Sharma, S P ^a   Sukavanam, N ^a   Kumar, Naveen ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Failure modes and effects analysis; Reliability management; Robotics; Systems analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX CONFIGURATION; CONCURRENT PROCESSING; COURSE OF ACTION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FAILURE BEHAVIORS; FAILURE MODES AND EFFECTS ANALYSIS; FUZZY ARITHMETICS; FUZZY NUMBERS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTI-ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; PN MODELS; POSSIBILITY THEORY; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT; RELIABILITY PARAMETERS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS SYSTEMS; SINGLE ROBOTS; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS;

COMPLEXATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; GRAPH THEORY; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; PETRI NETS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY THEORY; ROBOTICS; SAFETY FACTOR; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 77951155115     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644401011029925     Document Type: Article

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