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Open AccessMaternal choline supplementation mitigates premature foetal weight gain induced by an obesogenic diet, potentially linked to increased amniotic fluid leptin levels in rats
Placental leptin may impact foetal development. Maternal overnutrition has been linked to increased plasma leptin levels and adverse effects on offspring, whereas choline, an essential nutrient for foetal deve...
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Cooperative Control Strategy for an Airplane Landing on a Mobile Target
This paper presents a cooperative control strategy for landing a fixed-wing drone on a mobile target vehicle. The control strategy focuses on guiding the drone along a desired trajectory while the target vehic...
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Terahertz Imaging and Machine Learning in the Classification of Coffee Beans
The geographical origin of coffee beans represents an effect on the attributes and quality of the product due to the different soil and weather conditions for a specific location. Therefore, the development of...
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Metabolomic approach in milk from calorie-restricted rats during lactation: a potential link to the programming of a healthy phenotype in offspring
Mild/moderate maternal calorie restriction during lactation in rats has been associated with a lower predisposition to obesity and a healthier metabolic profile in adult offspring. Here, we aimed to assess the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Benchmarking Languages for Evolutionary Algorithms
Although performance is important, several other issues should be taken into account when choosing a particular language for implementing an evolutionary algorithm, such as the fact that the speed of different...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comparing Optimization Methods, in Continuous Space, for Modelling with a Diffusion Process
Many probabilistic models are frequently used for natural growth-patterns modelling and their forecasting such as the diffusion processes. The maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of a diffusion pro...
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A Vision and GPS-Based Real-Time Trajectory Planning for a MAV in Unknown and Low-Sunlight Environments
In this paper we address the problem of real-time optimal trajectory generation of a micro Air Vehicle (MAV) in unknown and low-sunlight environments. The MAV is required to navigate from an initial and outdoo...
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Embedded Laser Vision System for Indoor Aerial Autonomous Navigation
An embedded laser vision system for indoor autonomous navigation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is presented. The vision system is composed of a camera, a classical laser line and vision algorithms and it...
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Erratum to: Vision Based Tracking for a Quadrotor Using Vanishing Points
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Mini Rotorcraft Flight Formation Control Using Bounded Inputs
In this paper, the flight formation control and trajectory tracking control design of multiple mini rotorcraft systems are discussed. The dynamic model of a mini rotorcraft is presented using the Newton-Euler ...
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Vision Based Tracking for a Quadrotor Using Vanishing Points
In this paper, a vision based line tracking control strategy for mini-rotorcraft is presented. In order to estimate the 3-D position of the mini-rotorcraft over the trajectory a vanishing points technique is u...
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Attitude Stabilization with Real-time Experiments of a Tail-sitter Aircraft in Horizontal Flight
This paper focusses on the attitude stabilization of a mini tail-sitter aircraft, considering aerodynamic effects. The main characteristic of this vehicle is that it operates in either the hover mode for launc...
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Control Strategy Using Vision for the Stabilization of an Experimental PVTOL Aircraft Setup
In this chapter, we stabilize the planar vertical takeoff and landing (PVTOL) aircraft using a camera. The camera is used to measure the position and orientation of the PVTOL moving on an inclined plane. We ha...
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Robust Prediction-Dased Control for Unstable Delay Systems
We present a discrete-time prediction based state-feedback controller. It is shown that this controller stabilizes possibly unstable continuous-time delay systems. The stability is shown to be robust with resp...
