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Volker Willert1, Julian Eggert, Jürgen Adamy

  • 1Darmstadt University of Technology, Institute for Automatic Control, Control Theory and Robotics Lab, Darmstadt D-64283, Germany. volker@rtr.tu-darmstadt.de

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Part B, Cybernetics : a Publication of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
|June 10, 2006
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