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Animal navigation: how animals use environmental factors to find their way
Animals use the geomagnetic field and astronomical cues to obtain compass information. The magnetic compass is not a uniform mechanism, as several functional modes have been described in different animal groups.
R. Wiltschko, W. Wiltschko
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Robust Dry Bulk Fleet Route Optimization Under Navigation Risk Consideration
Dry bulk shipping plays an essential role in international bulk commodity transportation. The dry bulk shipping company that operates a fleet has to design an efficient and safe route for each vessel to complete the transportation task and reduce the ...
Jun Gao, Jie Wang
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A Multi-Source Fusion Navigation System to Overcome GPS Interruption of Unmanned Ground Vehicles
The Inertial Navigation System/Global Positioning System (INS/GPS) fusion navigation technology commonly used by unmanned ground vehicles is prone to GPS interruption in complex environments, resulting in the inability of the system to locate accurately.
Kuibao Zhu +5 more
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Navigating curriculum transformation: charting our course
The 2015 student-led #FeesMustFall campaign in South Africa initiated at some universities, and accelerated at others, indepth discussions and reflections about curriculum transformation within the perceived ivory towers of learning. Three years later, the mandate to implement transformation is clear from all levels but what is uncertain is the ...
Turner, Astrid +3 more
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Motivational Social Visualizations for Personalized E-Learning [PDF]
A large number of educational resources is now available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produces at least two problems: how to help students find the most appropriate
A. Dieberger +37 more
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Autonomous Navigation System of Greenhouse Mobile Robot Based on 3D Lidar and 2D Lidar SLAM
The application of mobile robots is an important link in the development of intelligent greenhouses. In view of the complex environment of a greenhouse, achieving precise positioning and navigation by robots has become the primary problem to be solved ...
Saike Jiang +8 more
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A chloride-based chemical-vapor-deposition (CVD) process has been successfully used to grow very high quality 3C-SiC epitaxial layers on on-axis α-SiC substrates.
Andersson, Sven +5 more
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Path-following control systems for ships can be designed using both heading and course angle autopilots in conjunction with a proportional line-of-sight (LOS) guidance law.
T. Fossen
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Machine Learning-Assisted Anomaly Detection in Maritime Navigation using AIS Data [PDF]
The automatic identification system (AIS) reports vessels' static and dynamic information, which are essential for maritime traffic situation awareness. However, AIS transponders can be switched off to hide suspicious activities, such as illegal fishing,
S. Singh, F. Heymann
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Vine Robots: Design, Teleoperation, and Deployment for Navigation and Exploration
A new class of continuum robots has recently been explored, characterized by tip extension, significant length change, and directional control. Here, we call this class of robots "vine robots," due to their similar behavior to plants with the growth ...
Blumenschein, Laura H. +9 more
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