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    Teaching Dialogic Speaking Strategies in a Canadian EAP Program

    In response to underdeveloped academic speaking skills of students studying an English for Academic Purposes program in Canada, Chapter 8 introduces a ‘Six Thinking Hats’ approach to academic speaking. These s...

    Winnie Pang, Michael Burri in International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT (2018)

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    Three-dimensional coverage path planning via viewpoint resampling and tour optimization for aerial robots

    This paper presents a new algorithm for three-dimensional coverage path planning for autonomous structural inspection operations using aerial robots. The proposed approach is capable of computing short inspect...

    Andreas Bircher, Mina Kamel, Kostas Alexis, Michael Burri in Autonomous Robots (2016)

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    Aerial robotic contact-based inspection: planning and control

    The challenge of aerial robotic contact-based inspection is the driving motivation of this paper. The problem is approached on both levels of control and path-planning by introducing algorithms and control law...

    Kostas Alexis, Georgios Darivianakis, Michael Burri, Roland Siegwart in Autonomous Robots (2016)

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    RotorS—A Modular Gazebo MAV Simulator Framework

    In this chapter we present a modular Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) simulation framework, which enables a quick start to perform research on MAVs. After reading this chapter, the reader will have a ready to use MA...

    Fadri Furrer, Michael Burri, Markus Achtelik in Robot Operating System (ROS) (2016)

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    Switzerland

    In 1895, the year following its debut in London and Paris, the Edison Kinetoscope delivered the first moving photographic images to Swiss viewers, with 1896 constituting the annus mirabilis for the new medium. In...

    Michael Burri in Women Screenwriters (2015)