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Seeing the hand while reaching speeds up on-line responses to a sudden change in target position (2009)
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Goal-directed movements are executed under the permanent supervision of the central nervous system, which continuously processes sensory afferents and triggers on-line corrections if movement accuracy seems to be compromised. For arm reaching movemen... Read More about Seeing the hand while reaching speeds up on-line responses to a sudden change in target position.

Whisking with robots: From rat vibrissae to biomimetic technology for active touch (2009)
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This article summarizes some of the key features of the rat vibrissal system, including the actively controlled sweeping movements of the vibrissae known as whisking, and reviews the past and ongoing research aimed at replicating some of this functio... Read More about Whisking with robots: From rat vibrissae to biomimetic technology for active touch.

Lot sizing and sequencing optimisation at an animal-feed plant (2009)
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This paper studies a challenging case of joint lot sizing and scheduling in a manufacturing plant for animal feed compounds. A key characteristic of this industry is that certain products can perform a production line "cleaning" function if a suffici... Read More about Lot sizing and sequencing optimisation at an animal-feed plant.

Energy-minimizing coarse spaces for two-level Schwarz methods for multiscale PDEs (2009)
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Two-level overlapping Schwarz methods for elliptic partial differential equations combine local solves on overlapping domains with a global solve of a coarse approximation of the original problem. To obtain robust methods for equations with highly va... Read More about Energy-minimizing coarse spaces for two-level Schwarz methods for multiscale PDEs.

Economic dispatch of power system using particle swarm optimization with constriction factor (2009)
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Engineless unmanned aerial vehicle propulsion by dynamic soaring (2009)
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Stress integration method for a nonlinear kinematic/isotropic hardening model and its characterization based on polycrystal plasticity (2009)
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Sheet metal forming processes generally involve non-proportional strain paths including springback, leading to the Bauschinger effect, transient hardening, and permanent softening behavior, that can be possibly modeled by kinematic hardening laws. In... Read More about Stress integration method for a nonlinear kinematic/isotropic hardening model and its characterization based on polycrystal plasticity.

Engineless unmanned aerial vehicle propulsion by dynamic soaring (2009)
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Dynamic soaring is a flight technique which extracts energy from wind gradients with the potential to power small unmanned aerial vehicles in maritime applications. Wind gradients of the required magnitude naturally occur at the air-sea interface due... Read More about Engineless unmanned aerial vehicle propulsion by dynamic soaring.

Obtaining malignant melanoma indicators through statistical analysis of 3D skin surface disruptions (2009)
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Background/purpose: It has been observed that disruptions in skin patterns are larger for malignant melanoma (MM) than benign lesions. In order to extend the classification results achieved for 2D skin patterns, this work intends to investigate the f... Read More about Obtaining malignant melanoma indicators through statistical analysis of 3D skin surface disruptions.

A genetic approach to statistical disclosure control (2009)
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