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Optimising position control of a solar parabolic trough
Submitted: 29 September 2010 | Published: 15 March 2011
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Puramanathan Naidoo, Mangosuthu University of Technology, South AfricaTheo I. van Niekerk, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
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