An interval 2-tuple linguistic MCDM method for robot evaluation and selection

Autor: Jing Wu, Ren Minglun, Hu-Chen Liu, Qing-Lian Lin
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: International Journal of Production Research. 52:2867-2880
ISSN: 1366-588X
0020-7543
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2013.854939
Popis: Nowadays selection of an optimal robot has become a challenging task for manufacturers with the increment of production demands and availability of more different robot models. Robot selection for a particular industrial application can be viewed as a complicated multi-criteria decision-making problem which requires consideration of a number of alternative robots and conflicting subjective and objective criteria. Furthermore, decision-makers tend to use multigranularity linguistic term sets to express their assessments on the subjective criteria, and there usually exists uncertain and incomplete assessment information. In this paper, an interval 2-tuple linguistic TOPSIS (ITL-TOPSIS) method is proposed to handle the robot selection problem under uncertain and incomplete information environment. This method considers both subjective judgements and objective information in real-life applications, and models the uncertainty and diversity of decision-makers’ assessments using interval 2-tuple linguistic varia...
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