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Hector M. Romero-Ugalde, Virginie Le Rolle, Jean-Luc Bonnet, Christine Henry, Alain Bel, Philippe Mabo, Guy Carrault, Alfredo I. Hernández
A novel controller based on state-transition models for closed-loop vagus nerve stimulation: Application to heart rate regulation
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