Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Olivares Mendez
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Faculty or Centre | Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust | ||||
Department | Space Robotics | ||||
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Campus Kirchberg, Université du Luxembourg 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg |
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Campus Office | L 117C | ||||
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Telephone | (+352) 46 66 44 5478 | ||||
Dr. Olivares Mendez received the Diploma in Computer Science Engineering in 2006 from the University of Malaga (UMA), Spain, and received the M.Sc. degree in Robotics and Automation and PhD degree in Robotics and Automation from the Industrial Engineering Faculty at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He got the Best PhD Thesis award of 2013 by the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT). In May 2013 he joined the Interdisciplinary Center for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg (Uni.Lu), as Associate Researcher in the Automation & Robotics Research Group. In December 2016 he becomes Research Scientist and major responsible of the research activities on mobiles robotics in the Automation & Robotics Research Group at the SnT-University of Luxembourg.
Since 2013, Dr. Olivares Mendez is acting as Associate Editor for Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (JINT). In 2015, he was selected to be Reviewer Editor for the Robotic Control Systems, part of the journal(s) Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He has been a member of the organizing committee of the Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS) 2010 conference in Madrid, Spain, serving as Local Arrangement Chair. He was the Financial Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation 2015 in Luxembourg and participated as member of the program committee in numerous renowned international scientific conferences in robotics and control. The main research interests of Dr. Olivares Mendez are on unmanned aerial systems, computer vision, sensor fusion, vision-based control, soft-computing control techniques and robotics and automation. He has published over 60 book chapters and papers in scientific journals and conferences. Furthermore, he was the project lead or main supervisor of 7 research projects.
Last updated on: Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Here is my updated cv:
Last updated on: 05 Feb 2015
Here is available all the software developed during my research works.
MOFS-ROS
A Robotics Operative System (ROS) package to develop control system approaches based on Fuzzy Logic. This package is based on the C++ library called Miguel Olivares' Fuzzy Software (MOFS), that was used in several works in the past (publications between 2007 and 2013).
please contact me by email: miguel.olivaresmendez@uni.lu
ARUCO_ROS
A ROS package to process images from the virtual environment of V-REP or from a real camera using an Augmented Reality (AR) code detection. This package is based on the C++ library ArUco, developed by R. Muñoz-Salinas.
please contact me by email: miguel.olivaresmendez@uni.lu
V-REP Quadrotor model
The Virtual Robot Experimental Platform (V-REP) is a powerful tool for robotics tests. It has the option to communicate with ROS. Here is the model of a virtual quadrotor modified to be commanded by velocity commands, to send the onboard camera images to ROS and to receive the control commands.
SnT_ardrone_connection
Here is the ROS package used to communicate by WiFi connection with the AR.Drone (parrot), getting the onboard camera image and sending the control commands. This software is based on the tum_ardrone ROS package.
Vision Control System
This is a ROS package to put across the information extracted from the image processing algorithm (done by the ARUCO_ROS package) to the developed control system (done by the MOFS-ROS package), and also to send the control system output to the virtual or real quadrotor. This package also include another program to run to send basic commands to the real AR.Drone, like take off, land, and the emergency stop. This program also allow to select the specific ARUCO marker to be detected and used for the control of the UAV.
please contact me by email: miguel.olivaresmendez@uni.lu
Last updated on: 22 Oct 2015
Title: Soft-Computing Based Visual Control for Unmanned Vehicles
Abstract:
The aim of this Thesis is to exploit the use of Soft Computing to control
unmanned vehicles using vision. This works goes beyond the typical control
systems used in highly controlled environments, by demonstrating the power
of the Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLCs) to command aerial and ground vehicles
in a sort of different tasks. A huge amount of real tests are presented in which
the implemented Fuzzy controllers manage a visual pan and tilt platform, a
helicopter, a commercial car and two different types of quadcopters. The use of
the Cross-Entropy method to optimize the behavior of these controllers is also
shown.
All the visual servoing controllers presented in this Thesis were implemented
using the self-developed software tool called MOFS (Miguel Olivares’ Fuzzy
Software). Different visual algorithms were used to acquire the information
of the surrounding environment of the vehicles. The CamShift, homography
decomposition, and augmented reality mark detection among others. This visual
information was used as input of the Fuzzy controllers to manage the vehicle to
do different autonomous tasks.
The steering wheel of a commercial car was controlled to implement a
driverless vehicle for inner-city tests. Long distance of more than 6 km was
covered without driver in a close circuit using a vision line following algorithm.
The limited field of view (50 30 cm) of the system was not an impediment to
reach a top speed of 48km/h and guide the vehicle inside low radius curves.
Static and moving objects like cars were tracking from an unmanned
helicopter controlling an on board pan and tilt visual platform. A full control of
altitude, lateral and forward movements was implemented for an auto-landing
task of a helicopter. An implementation of pitch and heading controllers were
used to command a quadrotor for object following task. The heading was also
controlled for See and Avoid task with this type of UAVs.
The Cross-Entropy optimization method is not wide used for control in the
literature. This Thesis presents the way to optimize the gains, membership
function sets’ position and size and the rules’ weight to improve the behavior of
a Fuzzy controller. This optimization process was done using ROS and Matlab
Simulink to obtain better results for See and Avoid tests for UAVs.
This Thesis demonstrates that the Fuzzy Logic Controllers are widely capable
to command free-model systems in high disturbance environments with a
low cost sensor. The noisy effects of illumination changes and the high uncertain
of the visual detection were manage in a gentle way by this Soft Computing
technique to approach different tasks with different aerial and ground vehicles.
Last updated on: 05 May 2014

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2022

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in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2022)

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Scientific Conference (2022, July)

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in Proceedings of 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2022, October 23)

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in Proceedings of 2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2022, July 26)

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in Frontiers in Space Technologies (2022)
2021

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in Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC-2021 (2021, October 29)

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in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2021)

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Poster (2021, April 19)

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in Drones (2021), 5(4 141),

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Scientific Conference (2021)

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in Proceedings of the 12th European CubeSatSymposium (2021, November 15)
2020

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in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2020), 5(2), 3620-3625

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in Proceedings of the 71st International Astronautical Congress 2020 (2020, October 12)

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Scientific Conference (2020, October 21)

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in Low-light image enhancement of permanently shadowed lunar regions with physics-based machine learning (2020, December)

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in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2020), 100
2019

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in Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (2019, July)

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in IECON 2019-45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2019, October)

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in 2019 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) (2019, November 25)

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in International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (2019, August 22)

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in International Conference on Control, Decision and Information CoDIT, Paris 23-26 April 2019 (2019, April 26)

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in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2019), 93(1-2), 33-53
2018

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in 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Zadar, Croatia, 19-22 June 2018 (2018, June)

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in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2018)

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in 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Dallas 12-15 June 2018 (2018, June)
2017

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in 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS); Miami 13-16 June 2017 (2017)

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in ROBOT'2017 - Third Iberian Robotics Conference, Sevilla, Spain, 2017 (2017, November 22)

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in Iberian Robotics Conference, Seville, Spain, 2017 (2017, November 22)

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in 2017 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) (2017, August 30)

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in AIP Conference Proceedings (2017), 1798(1), 020069

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in Model predictive control for cooperative control of space robots (2017, January)

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in International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems ICUAS. Miami, USA, 2017 (2017, June 13)

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in Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (2017)

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in Autonomous Robots (2017)

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in Sensors (2017), 17(8 1720),

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in 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (2017, July 27)
2016

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in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics ROBIO, Qingdao, China, 2016 (2016, December 06)

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in IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2016), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016 (2016, September 20)

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in 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Athens, Greece, June 21-24, 2016 (2016, June 22)

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in Proceedings of the IEEE 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (2016, June)

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in 4th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA'16), Barcelona, Spain 2016 (2016)

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in 5th International Conference on Mechatronics and Control Engineering ICMCE, venice, Italy, 2016 (2016, December 14)

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in 8th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Ploiesti, Romania, 30 June-02 July 2016 (2016, July 01)

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in 4th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation ICCMA '16, Barcelona, Spain, 2016 (2016)

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in Proceedings of 21st IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation ETFA 2016 (2016, September 06)

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in Sensors (2016), 16(3), 362

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in ASME 2016 Conferences on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, Vermont 28-30 September 2016 (2016, September)

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in 8th International Conference on Electronics, Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Ploiesti, Romania, 30 June-02 July 2016 (2016, July 01)
2015

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in International Conference on Robotics, Automation, Control and Embedded Systems (RACE), 2015 (2015, February 20)

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in 20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'15) (2015, September)

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in 16th World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) 9th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) (2015, July)

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in Sensors (2015), 15(12), 29861

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in 23nd IEEE Mediterranean Conference of Control and Automation (MED), 2015, Torremolinos 2015, Spain (2015, June)
2014

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in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2014 International Conference on (2014, May)

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in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on (2014, May)

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in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2014), 73(1-4), 513-533

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in Porceedings of the 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL SYSTEM, COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING (2014, November)

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in Machine Vision and Applications (2014), 25(5), 1283-1308

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in Bissyandé, Tegawendé F.; van Stam, Gertjan (Eds.) e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries (2014)

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in Control and Automation (MED), 2014 22nd Mediterranean Conference of (2014, June)

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in Porceedings of The International Micro Air Vehicle Conference and Competition 2014 (2014, August)

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in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2014 International Conference on (2014)
2013

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in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2013 International Conference on (2013)

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in Second Workshop on Research, Development and Education on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS 2013) (2013)

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in Second Workshop on Research, Development and Education on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS 2013) (2013, November)

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in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (2013), 72(3-4), 517-539

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in Lee, Sukhan; Yoon, Kwang-Joon; Lee, Jangmyung (Eds.) Frontiers of Intelligent Autonomous Systems (2013)

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in Sen Gupta, Gourab; Bailey, Donald; Demidenko, Serge; Carnegie, Dale (Eds.) Recent Advances in Robotics and Automation (2013)

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in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2013), 69(1-4), 189-205

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in Second Workshop on Research, Development and Education on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS 2013) (2013)
2012

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in ICUAS 2012 : 2012 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (2012, June)

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in ICUAS 2012: 2012 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (2012)

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in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (2012), 193

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in See-and-Avoid Quadcopter using Fuzzy Control Optimized by Cross-Entropy (2012)

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in Uncertainty modeling in knowlege engineering and decision making : proceedings of the 10th International FLINS Conference (2012)

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in 2012 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'12) (2012)

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in IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control PID'12 (2012)
2011

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in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2011), 61(1-4), 301-320

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in Robotics Symposium, 2011 IEEE IX Latin American and IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control and Industry Applications (LARC) (2011)

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in Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), 2011 5th International Conference on (2011)

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in First Workshop on Research, Development and Education on Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS 2011) (2011)
2010

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in Proccedings of World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010) (2010)

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in Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on (2010)

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in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2010), 58(6), 809-819

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in Proccedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2010)

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in AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (2010), 29(1), 17-34

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in Proccedings of World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010) (2010)

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in Ruan, D Li, TR Xu, Y Chen, GQ Kerre, EE (Ed.) COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL FLINS CONFERENCE (2010, August)

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in BICS 2010 Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Systems (2010, July)
2009

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in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2009), 55(4-5), 299-321

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in Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2009), 54(1-3), 105-135

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in 2009 IEEE-RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (2009)

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in 2009 IEEE-RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (2009)

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in EUROFUSE 2009. workshop on on preference modelling and decision analysis (2009, September)
2008

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in UAV'08 International Symposium On Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (2008, June)

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in Ruan, D (Ed.) COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN DECISION AND CONTROL (2008)
2007

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in Intelligent Signal Processing, 2007. WISP 2007. IEEE International Symposium on (2007, October)