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Re: Robot Design: If there isn't a vote, who makes the decisions?
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Originally Posted by seg9585
Numbers in a design matrix should not be very arbitrary. If you can clearly rank attributes of designs then do so, if not then mark them with the same value. Establish a tolerance level (ie 50 pts +/- 4) and anything within that tolerance is a valid design which may be prototyped/implemented. Pick one of these or add a tiebreaker attribute.
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The problem is that many of the attributes you wish to compare are not easily quantifiable. "Reliability" is not an element of a metric space. It is useful to attempt to quantify these so you can do a rough estimation of a utility calculation, but I would never take that as anything more than a guide for discussion.
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Last edited by Oblarg : 19-12-2013 at 12:51.
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