Attribute-Based Relative Ranking of Robot for Task Assignment

Availability of large number of robot configurations has made the robot workcell designers think over the issue of selecting the most suitable one for a given set of operations. The process of selection of the appropriate kind of robot must consider the various attributes of the robot manipulator in conjunction with the requirement of the various operations for accomplishing the task. The present work is an attempt to develop a systematic procedure for selection of robot based on an integrated model encompassing the manipulator attributes and manipulator requirements. The developed procedure can advantageously be used to standardize the robot selection process with view to perform a set of intended tasks. The work is also aimed at creating an exhaustive list of attributes and classifying them into different distinct categories. The coding scheme for the attributes and the relative ranking of the manipulators are illustrated with example.