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Amirhossein Farvardin1, Mahsan Bakhtiari Nejad2, Michael Pozin3

  • 1Laboratory for Computational Sensing & Robotics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition : [Proceedings]. International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
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