Armando Mendes - Böcker

This book includes recent research on climbing and walking robots. CLAWAR 2022 is the twenty-fifth International Conference Series on Climbing and Walking Robots and Mobile Machine Support Technologies. The conference is organized by CLAWAR Association in collaboration with the University of the Azores, S. Miguel, Portugal, during September 12-14, 2022. CLAWAR 2022 provides an updated state of the art on robotics and its use in a diversity of applications and/or simulation scenarios, within the framework “Robotics in Natural Settings”. The topics covered include Bio-Inspired Robotics, Biped Locomotion, Educational Robotics, Human-Machine/Human-Robot Interaction, Innovative Actuators, Inspection, Legged Locomotion, Modeling and Simulation of CLAWAR, Outdoor and Field Robotics, Planning and Control, Wearable Devices and Assistive Robotics, and the Use of A.I. in Robotics. The intended readershipincludes participants of CLAWAR 2022 conference, international robotic researchers, scientists, and professors of related topics worldwide, and professors and students of postgraduate courses in Robotics and Automation, Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Mechatronics.

This two-volume set CCIS 1981 and 1982 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications, OL2A 2023, held in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, in September 2023.The 66 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Volume I:Machine learning; learning algorithms in engineering education; machine learning and data analysis in internet of things; optimization; optimization in the SDG context.Volume II:Computer vision based on learning algorithms; machine learning and AI in robotics; optimization in control systems design.

This two-volume set CCIS 1981 and 1982 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications, OL2A 2023, held in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, in September 2023.The 66 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Volume I:Machine learning; learning algorithms in engineering education; machine learning and data analysis in internet of things; optimization; optimization in the SDG context.Volume II:Computer vision based on learning algorithms; machine learning and AI in robotics; optimization in control systems design.

The editors draw on a 3-year project that analyzed a Portuguese area in detail, comparing this study with papers from other regions. Applications include the estimation of technical efficiency in agricultural grazing systems (dairy, beef and mixed) and specifically for dairy farms. The conclusions indicate that it is now necessary to help small dairy farms in order to make them more efficient. These results can be compared with the technical efficiency of a sample of Spanish dairy processing firms presented by Magdalena Kapelko and co-authors.