Controlling horse heart rate as a basis for training improvement

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 78-84

  Aerts, J M ^a   Gebruers, F ^a   Van Camp, E ^a   Berckmans, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heart rate; Horse; Model predictive control; Transfer function model

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; SPEED; TECHNOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; BEST FIT; CONTROL INPUTS; DYNAMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; FIRST-ORDER MODELS; HEART RATE; HORSE; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MODEL-BASED ALGORITHMS; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL STATUS; RUNNING SPEED; STEP CHANGES; TRANSFER FUNCTION MODEL; TRANSFER FUNCTION MODELS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HORSE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REAL TIME; TRAINING;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 50049108611     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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