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Chapter and Conference Paper
Critical Management Risks in Collaborative University-Industry R&D Programs
In university-industry collaborative research and development (R&D) programs and projects, Risk Management (RM) has assumed a preponderant importance for the success of programs and projects due to their innov...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Aerial-Ground Robotic Team for Systematic Soil and Biota Sampling in Estuarine Mudflats
This paper presents an aerial-ground field robotic team, designed to collect and transport soil and biota samples in estuarine mudflats. The robotic system has been devised so that its sampling and storage cap...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Design of a Robotic System Composed of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle and a Piggybacked VTOL
This paper presents the core ideas of the RIVERWATCH experiment and describes its hardware architecture. The RIVERWATCH experiment considers the use of autonomous surface vehicles piggybacking multi-rotor unma...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Collaborative Aerial and Surface Robots for Environmental Monitoring of Water Bodies
Remote monitoring is an essential task to help maintaining Earth ecosystems. A notorious example is the monitoring of riverine environments. The solution purposed in this paper is to use an electric boat (ASV ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
High Maneuverability Lenticular Airship
This paper presents and describes a new lenticular shaped airship that allows 3D omnidirectional movements. The airship is intended to be part of a cooperative aerial system based in the synergy between an air...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Symbiotic Lenticular Airship for WiSAR Missions
This paper presents and describes an innovative cooperative symbiotic robotic system based in two types of unmanned air vehicles: A lenticular shaped airship that allows 3D omnidirectional movements with a big...