Reliability analysis of waste clean-up manipulator using genetic algorithms and fuzzy methodology

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 310-319

  Kumar, Naveen ^a   Borm, Jin Hwan ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^b  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b ABV INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Linguistic variables; Mean time between failures; Optimization; Petri Nets; Reliability

Indexed keywords

FAILURE RATE; FUZZY ARITHMETICS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; LINGUISTIC VARIABLES; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; MEAN TIME TO REPAIRS; OPTIMAL VALUES; PETRI NET MODELS; POSSIBILITY THEORY; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; REAL CODED GENETIC ALGORITHM; RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY; RELIABILITY PARAMETERS; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; TRIANGULAR FUZZY NUMBERS;

FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MANIPULATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PETRI NETS; RELIABILITY THEORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958085016     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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