Zongrun Li, Kamal J Maji, Yongtao Hu, Ambarish Vaidyanathan, Susan M O'Neill, M Talat Odman, Armistead G Russell
{"title":"An Analysis of Prescribed Fire Activities and Emissions in the Southeastern United States from 2013 to 2020.","authors":"Zongrun Li, Kamal J Maji, Yongtao Hu, Ambarish Vaidyanathan, Susan M O'Neill, M Talat Odman, Armistead G Russell","doi":"10.3390/rs15112725","DOIUrl":"10.3390/rs15112725","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prescribed burning is a major source of a fine particular matter, especially in the southeastern United States, and quantifying emissions from burning operations accurately is an integral part of ascertaining air quality impacts. For instance, a critical factor in calculating fire emissions is identifying fire activity information (e.g., location, date/time, fire type, and area burned) and prior estimations of prescribed fire activity used for calculating emissions have either used burn permit records or satellite-based remote sensing products. While burn permit records kept by state agencies are a reliable source, they are not always available or readily accessible. Satellite-based remote sensing products are currently used to fill the data gaps, especially in regional studies; however, they cannot differentiate prescribed burns from the other types of fires. In this study, we developed novel algorithms to distinguish prescribed burns from wildfires and agricultural burns in a satellite-derived product, Fire INventory from NCAR (FINN). We matched and compared the burned areas from permit records and FINN at various spatial scales: individual fire level, 4 km grid level, and state level. The methods developed in this study are readily usable for differentiating burn type, matching and comparing the burned area between two datasets at various resolutions, and estimating prescribed burn emissions. The results showed that burned areas from permits and FINN have a weak correlation at the individual fire level, while the correlation is much higher for the 4 km grid and state levels. Since matching at the 4 km grid level showed a relatively higher correlation and chemical transport models typically use grid-based emissions, we used the linear regression relationship between FINN and permit burned areas at the grid level to adjust FINN burned areas. This adjustment resulted in a reduction in FINN-burned areas by 34%. The adjusted burned area was then used as input to the BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework to provide long-term, three-dimensional prescribed burning emissions for the southeastern United States. In this study, we also compared emissions from different methods (FINN or BlueSky) and different data sources (adjusted FINN or permits) to evaluate uncertainties of our emission estimation. The comparison results showed the impacts of the burned area, method, and data source on prescribed burning emission estimations.</p>","PeriodicalId":38583,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11296730/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88871240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IoT-based dataset augmentation method for oracle bone inscriptions reorganisation","authors":"Tomoki Morioka, Lin Meng","doi":"10.1504/ijamechs.2023.131338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijamechs.2023.131338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38583,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135685643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vibration control design for nonlinear MIMO wing-plate systems based on operator theory","authors":"Guang Jin","doi":"10.1504/ijamechs.2023.134817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijamechs.2023.134817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38583,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135704635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimising inverse kinematics algorithm for an indigenous vision-based feeding serial robot using particle swarm optimisation and hybrid genetic algorithm: a comparison","authors":"Priyam A. Parikh, Reena Trivedi, Keyur D. Joshi","doi":"10.1504/ijamechs.2023.131332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijamechs.2023.131332","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to provide an optimal inverse kinematics solution for an indigenous 6 DoF feeding robot using evolutionary algorithms such as C-PSO and H-GA. Here, a case of a vision-based 3D printed serial manipulator is taken, which helps patients with meal consumption. A robotic arm passes through many intermediate points in its entire trajectory, which might create a positional error in Euclidean-space. The higher positional error can lead the robot's end-effector to the incorrect destination. To overcome this problem, we have provided a methodology that would help to perform IK at every intermediate point using C-PSO and H-GA. To efficiently solve the problem of positional error, the IK was optimised using C-PSO and H-GA, which gave a mean PE of 4.95% and 3.78% respectively. Finally, the PE, obtained from C-PSO and H-GA were compared and plotted in 2D line and 3D surface plots respectively.","PeriodicalId":38583,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135685651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decay-rate-constrained design of vibration damping network by a non-convex approach","authors":"Chengyan Zhao, Ueno Satoshi","doi":"10.1504/ijamechs.2023.134821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijamechs.2023.134821","url":null,"abstract":"Vibration design is always an essential issue in the design of mechanical systems. This paper is considered the vibration dumping network design problem via a novel mathematical programming approach. Remarkably, the decay rate of the vibration constraint problem is studied for enhancing design efficiency, where the whole degree of the vibration system design is permitted, in order to considerably minimise the vibration from the dynamic process of the mechanical system. This design challenge may be efficiently handled using the proposed non-convex programming problem by placing the assumption on the vibration elements in a specific form of the non-negative nonlinear power function. In solving this problem, many available computing tools can be easily implemented in formulating and finding this nearly optimal solution. Finally, an example from the automobile engine design process is used to validate the suggested framework.","PeriodicalId":38583,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135704668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing the gearing torque capacity of pericycloidal and planetary gear reducers","authors":"Ali Mahmoodi","doi":"10.1504/ijamechs.2023.134819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijamechs.2023.134819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38583,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135704056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decay-rate-constrained design of vibration damping network by a non-convex approach","authors":"Ueno Satoshi, Chengyan Zhao","doi":"10.1504/ijamechs.2023.10060345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijamechs.2023.10060345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38583,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135610168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}