Development of a decision support system for robot selection

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 142-157

  Tansel Iç, Yusuf ^a   Yurdakul, Mustafa ^b   Dengiz, Berna ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Correlation test Fuzzy AHP; Industrial robot; Robot selection

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; ROBOTS;

CRITICAL ISSUES; DECISION MAKERS; FEASIBLE SET; FUZZY AHP; FUZZY ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; INDEPENDENT SET; ROBOT SELECTION; SECOND PHASE;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84886790902     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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