Attribute-Based Ranking and Selection of Robots for Task Assignment

The selection of robot for a particular application is a critical issue and it depends on large number of parameters. With changing product design parameters, improving robot technology the problem of robot selection has been of concern to users. This problem has become more difficult in recent years due to increasing complexity, available features, and facilities offered by different robots. A systematic procedure is developed in this work for selection of robot manipulators based on their attributes. This procedure can be used to standardize the robot selection procedure when the user needs to use the robot for a particular application. Subsequently, the selection procedure proceeds to rank the alternatives in the shortlist by employing the attribute based specification method. This is an attempt to create an exhaustive procedure by identifying maximum possible number of attributes. The coding scheme and the ranking procedures are illustrated with example.