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Automation in steep terrain agriculture: an optimal controller to prevent tipping and slipping of tethered robots on slopes
Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Max Mirko Polzin
Autonomous robots have the potential to fundamentally transform conventional farming methods, e.g. by enabling economically viable farming of sloped arable land. However, navigation on slopes in harsh conditions is challenging for robots as they must be pr ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023Using video detection of snow surface movements to estimate weak layer crack propagation speeds
Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Bertil Trottet, Alec van Herwijnen
Dry-snow slab avalanches release due to crack propagation in a weak snow layer under a cohesive snow slab. Crack propagation speeds can provide insights into the potential size of avalanches and inform fracture and avalanche release models. Despite their i ...
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2023Impact of Topography on Rural Cycling Patterns: Case Study of Bugesera District, Rwanda
Jérôme Chenal, Akuto Akpedze Konou, Baraka Jean-Claude Munyaka, Rim Mrani
Rural mobility in Africa is an under-researched issue. Rural communities have often suffered from reduced mobility that has hampered their access to essential services and facilities such as education, health care, food, and clean water. In many rural comm ...
2023The variability of antidune morphodynamics on steep slopes
Steep streams on rough beds are generally characterised by supercritical flow conditions under which antidunes can develop and migrate over time. In this paper, we present flume experiments that we conducted to investigate the variability of antidune geome ...
2021Sharp transition in modes of dynamic crack propagation in dry-snow slab avalanche
Dry-snow slab avalanche release can be separated in four distinct phases : (i) failure initiation in a weak snow layer, (ii) onset, (iii) dynamics of crack propagation in the weak layer and eventually (iv)slab release. While a lot has been done to study th ...
2020Antidunes on steep slopes: variability of wave geometry and migration celerity
As a result of interactions between streamflow andsediment, riverbeds are seldom smooth, but depending onhydraulic and sediment transport conditions, they exhibitbedforms, which grow and migrate over time (upstreamor downstream). Morphology migration may e ...
Heide Friedrich and Karin Bryan2019Management of turbidity current venting in reservoirs under different bed slopes
Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Sabine Chamoun
The lifetime and efficiency of dams is endangered by the process of sedimentation. To ensure the sustainable use of reservoirs, many sediment management techniques exist, among which venting of turbidity currents. Nevertheless, a number of practical questi ...
Elsevier2017Snow fracture in relation to slab avalanche release: critical state for the onset of crack propagation
Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Nander Wever, Jürg Schweizer, Alec van Herwijnen
The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient, condition for the release of a dry-snow slab avalanche. The size of the crack in the weak layer must also exceed a critical length to propagate across a sl ...
Copernicus GmbH2017