High-Stability and Fast Calibration-Free Temperature Measurement Based on Light-Induced Thermoelastic Spectroscopy by Xiaonan Liu, Shunda Qiao, Ying He, Yufei Ma

“…A superior performance can be obtained by adopting the CF-H-LITES technique based on method IV. It not only has excellent detection performance but also reduces the measurement period to 4 s, which is about 5 times faster. …”
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Path-Tracking Control of Tilting Quadrotor UAV Based on Variable Structure Sliding Mode Control Method by Qinghua Liu, Ke Zhang, Yunfan Pan, Huan Zhang

“…Tilting quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicles have the ability to perform vertical takeoff and landing, hover in the air, and cruise at high speeds, They can complete various flight tasks. …”
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Wireless vision-based fuzzy controllers for moving object tracking using a quadcopter by Mohammed Algabri, Hassan Mathkour, Mohamed Amine Mekhtiche, Mohamed Abdelkader Bencherif, Mansour Alsulaiman, Mohammed Amer Arafah, Hamid Ghaleb

“…During the last few decades, the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles has grown in military and has seen new civil applications because of their reduced cost and hovering capabilities. …”
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Short communication: Genomic prediction based on unbiased estimation of the genomic relationship matrix in pigs by M.Y. Li, L.Y. Shi, D.E. MacHugh, X.Q. Wang, J.J. Tian, L.G. Wang, Y.J. Deng, L.X. Wang, F.P. Zhao

“…The traditional genomic relationship matrix (GRM) has shown to be a biased estimation of true kinship, which can affect subsequent genetic analyses. …”
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Theoretical Design and First Test in Laboratory of a Composite Visual Servo-Based Target Spray Robotic System by Dongjie Zhao, Ying Zhao, Xuelei Wang, Bin Zhang

“…In order to spray onto the canopy of interval planting crop, an approach of using a target spray robot with a composite vision servo system based on monocular scene vision and monocular eye-in-hand vision was proposed. …”
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Assessing climate sensitivity of the Upper Indus Basin using fully distributed, physically-based hydrologic modeling and multi-model climate ensemble approach by Hamna Hasan, Muhammad Zia ur Rahman Hashmi, Syed Imran Ahmed, Muneer Anees

“…Abstract The Upper Indus Basin (UIB) of Pakistan is home to three largest mountain ranges: Karakoram, Hindukush, and the Himalayas. There’s a hovering danger of reduced water resources due to climate-induced warming, since the Indus Basin relies mostly on snow and glacier melt runoff from these mountains. …”
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