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Chapter and Conference Paper
Use of Digital Tools Contributing to the Digital Transition in Engineering and Data Science Courses
Digital technologies represent important tools for achieving quality education, which is one of the fundamental components of the United Nations’ sustainable development 2030 agenda. Teaching and learning proc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analytical Cyclic Division of Dataset for an ANN-Type Model: A Case Study in Air Quality Prediction in Sub-tropical Area
This research intends to show how an analytical cyclic division of a dataset can improve ANN-type models in predicting future situation of different air pollutants in small-sized urban cities. Similar to other...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Contribution to Characterizing Time-Dependent Handgrip Strength Profiles
The maximum value of HandGrip Strength (usually named by HGS) is an important biomarker that indicates several physical conditions such as diabetes, malnutrition, sarcopenia, frailty and general functional phy...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pocket Labs as a STEM Learning Tool and for Engineering Motivation
Teaching and learning are processes that must accompany the digital transition, which is one of the biggest challenges we currently face, along with the green transition. The digital transition in education is...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Technical Components Integration Using APIs for Predictive Maintenance in the Context of Industry 4.0 Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation (DT) is essential to support approaches that contribute to sustainability and circularity in different Industry 4.0 application contexts. DT presents several challenges and opportunities...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Generating Wildfire Heat Maps with Twitter and BERT
Recent developments in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have opened up a plethora of opportunities to extract pertinent information in settings where data overload is a critical issue. In this work, we addres...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Deep Learning Approach for Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance of Rolling Bearings
It is crucial for industrial companies that their systems are available and healthy as most as possible. However, it is inevitable that machines will degrade over time, leading to a fault, or even a complete b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application for Monitoring and Prediction of Energy and Water Consumption in Domestic Cyber-Physical Systems
The growth of cyber-physical systems in the context of smart homes and the Internet of Things (IoT) offers an opportunity to specify and develop useful applications to different purposes, based on data acquire...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Demonstration: Using IPython to Demonstrate the Usage of Remote Labs in Engineering Courses – A Case Study Using a Remote Rain Gauge
The use of collaborative tools that can contribute to share and demonstrate the usage of remote experiments, to support teaching and to enhance the learning process, is of great importance in several education...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using the Jupyter Notebook as a Tool to Support the Teaching and Learning Processes in Engineering Courses
Teaching and learning processes can benefit from the use of online resources, enabling the improvement of teachers and students productivity and giving them flexibility and support for collaborative work. Part...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Benefits of Using Remote Labs in Intelligent Control Teaching
The use of remote and virtual labs in teaching and learning activities can be very useful in different high education courses, especially in engineering courses. This paper presents the use of a remote experim...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of an E-learning Platform for Storage, Simulation and Online Experimentation of Models of Physiological Processes
The physiological phenomena are the result of complex interactions between several components in wider biological scales, which is challenging, for the human eye, to understand. Consequently, in biomedical eng...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Remote Laboratory Architecture for Agile Learning
The objective of this paper is to design and develop a new concept for an educational platform, where the focus is to engage students into learning by shifting the current paradigm of learning methodologies, e...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A General Distributed Architecture for Resilient Monitoring over Heterogeneous Networks
The growing developments on networked devices, with different communication structures and capabilities made possible the emergence of new architectures for monitoring systems. In the case of heterogeneous dis...
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Article
Fuzzy controllers gains tuning: a constrained nonlinear optimization approach
This paper presents a methodology for tuning the gains of fuzzy proportional-integral controllers where the concept of closed-loop control system performance is explicitly taken into account. The fuzzy control...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pattern Recognition of the Household Water Consumption through Signal Analysis
This paper presents the initial results of a research project that aims to develop a method for losses/leakage detection and household water consumption characterization through the detailed patterns analysis ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-agent Topologies over WSANs in the Context of Fault Tolerant Supervision
Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks can be used to detect and classify ephemeral distributed events, where different process components with different behaviours are involved. Agents implementing Distributed...
