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Abstract
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Selection of robots from the several proposed alternatives is a very important and tedious task.
Decision makers are not limited to one method and several methods have been proposed for
solving this problem. This study presents Polygons Area Method (PAM) as a multi attribute
decision making method for robot selection problem. In this method, the maximum polygons area
obtained from the attributes of an alternative robot on the radar chart is introduced as a decisionmaking
criterion. The results of this method are compared with other typical multiple attribute
decision-making methods (SAW, WPM, TOPSIS, and VIKOR) by giving two examples. To find
similarity in ranking given by different methods, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients are
obtained for different pairs of MADM methods. It was observed that the introduced method is in
good agreement with other well-known MADM methods in the robot selection problem.
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