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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2010)

Published: June 30, 2010

Pages: 12-15

Original Article

Motion control of a population of Artemias

L. Fortuna 1 M. Frasca M.G. Xibilia 2 A. A. Ali 3 M. T. Rashid 2
1DIEES, Faculty of Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
2DiSIA, Faculty of Engineering, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
3Electrical Engineering Department, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq
History
  • Received: April 30, 2010
  • Available Online: June 30, 2010
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.6.1.3

Abstract

In this work, the collective behavior of Artemia Salina is studied both experimentally and theoretically. Several experiments have been designed to investigate the Artemia motion under different environment conditions. From the results of such experiments, a strategy to control the direction of motion of an Artemia population, by exploiting their sensitivity to light, has been derived and then implemented.

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