resource limitation in zero time may cause to some profitable projects not to be selected in project selection problem, thus simultaneous project portfolio selection and scheduling problem has received significant attention. in this study, budget, investment costs and earnings are considered to be stochastic. the objectives are maximizing net present values of selected projects and minimizing v...

Traditional Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods have now become outdated; therefore, most researchers are focusing on more robust hybrid MCDM models that combine two or techniques to address decision-making problems. The authors attempted create novel systems in this paper by integrating Additive Ratio ASsessment (ARAS) with Technique for Order of Preference Similarity Ideal Solution ...

Transfer learning significantly accelerates the reinforcement learning process by exploiting relevant knowledge from previous experiences. The problem of optimally selecting source policies during the learning process is of great importance yet challenging. There has been little theoretical analysis of this problem. In this paper, we develop an optimal online method to select source policies fo...

A mobile robot has always uncertainty about the world model. Reducing this uncertainty is very hard because there is a huge amount of information and the robot must focus on the most relevant one. The selection of the most relevant information must be based on the task the robot is executing, but there could be several sources of information where the robot would like to focus on. This is also ...

as a robot could be stable statically standing on three or more legs, a six legged walking robot can be highly flexible in movements and perform different missions without dealing with serious kinematic and dynamic problems. an experimental six legged walking robot with 18 degrees of freedom is studied and built in this paper. the kinematic and gait analysis formulations are demonstrated by an e...

The inverse kinematics problem of a two degree of freedom (2DOF) planar robot arms issolved using Adomian’s decomposition method (ADM), after converting to a system of twononlinear algebraic equations. The advantage of the method is that it gives the solutions asfunctions of the desired position of the end effecter and the length of the arms. The accuracyof the solutions can be increased up to ...

In this paper, the researchers have investigated a Concatenated Robot Move (CRM) sequence problem and Minimal Part Set (MPS) schedule problem with different setup times for two-machine robotic cell. They have focused on simultaneous solving of CRM sequence and MPS schedule problems with different loading and unloading times. They have applied a Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm to provide a go...

Chatter is the main problem that limits application of industrial robots in field machining process. It critically important to establish an adaptive chatter detection solution for robot process and realize online chatter. However, different from machine tool chatter, robotic more complex be detected due variable stiffness characteristics weaker normal robot, existing literature has less resear...