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In haar nieuwe boek dringt Thera Coppens door tot de dertiende eeuw, waar een ontzagwekkende vrouw strijd moet voeren tegen de hebzucht van de haar omringende vorsten. Margaretha lag nog in de wieg toen haar ouders stierven en de machtige erflanden Vlaanderen en Henegouwen nalieten aan haar en haar zus Johanna. In de door mannen gedomineerde wereld vormden de schatrijke prinsessen een begeerde prooi in de genadeloze huwelijkspolitiek. Na de dood van Johanna bestreed Margaretha vijandige vorsten en pausen en stuurde haar oorlogsvloot af op haar aartsvijand: rooms-koning Willem II, graaf van Holland. Twee eeuwen later gingen haar graafschappen op in het grote Bourgondische Rijk. Maar als stammoeder van de nieuwe dynastie werkt haar wezen door in de middeleeuwse historie van de Lage Landen.

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Robotic animals are nowadays developed for various types of research, such as bio-inspired robotics, biomimetics and animal behavior studies. More specifically, in the case of collective animal behavior research, the robotic device can interact with animals by generating and exploiting signals relevant for social behavior. Once perceived by the animal society as conspecific, these robots can become powerful tools to study the animal behaviors, as they can at the same time monitor the changes in behavior and influence the collective choices of the animal society. In this book, we present novel robotized tools that can integrate shoals of fish in order to study their collective behaviors. We used the current state of the art on the zebrafish social behavior to define the specifications of the robots, and we performed stimuli analysis to improve their developments. Bio-inspired controllers were designed based on data extracted from experiments with zebrafish for the robots to mimic the zebrafish locomotion underwater. Experiments involving mixed groups of fish and robots qualified the robotic system to be integrated among a zebrafish shoal and to be able to influence the collective decisions of the fish. These results are very promising for the field of animal-robot interaction studies, as we showed the effect of the robots in long-duration experiments and repetitively, with the same order of response from the animals.

Biomedical engineering. --- Robotics. --- Robotics and Automation. --- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Medicine --- Robotic animals. --- Zebra danio. --- Barilius rerio --- Brachydanio frankei --- Brachydanio rerio --- Cyprinus chapalio --- Cyprinus rerio --- Danio frankei --- Danio lineatus --- Danio rerio --- Indian danio --- Indian zebra fish --- Leopard danio --- Nuria rerio --- Perilampus striatus --- Rerio --- Striped danio --- Zebra fish (Danio) --- Zebrafish (Zebra danio) --- Danio --- Animal robots --- Robot animals --- Robots --- Automation. --- Automatic factories --- Automatic production --- Computer control --- Engineering cybernetics --- Factories --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanization --- Assembly-line methods --- Automatic control --- Automatic machinery --- CAD/CAM systems --- Robotics