Projets novateurs réalisés

Comment vaincre l’isolement social des aînés en milieu rural et favoriser l’accessibilité aux ressources par le biais d’un projet d’impact collectif? Recherche-action, accompagnement et évaluation du déploiement du projet Culture aux aînés

Dans le contexte du vieillissement marqué de la population, exacerbé en milieu rural, la recherche proposée documentera, en partenariat avec le projet Culture aux aînés, les effets d’une réponse alternative pour contrer le sentiment de solitude, l’isolement et l’exclusion sociale des aînés au moyen des arts et de la culture. La recherche analysera les interventions directes de Cultures aux aînés, projet multisectoriel permettant aux aînés des MRC des Sources et du Val-Saint-François au Québec ainsi que des aînés anglophones de ces communautés, de se mettre en lien et d’activer des forces et des intérêts de manière ouverte et inclusive. L’utilisation d’un moyen atypique d’intervention, soit l’art et la médiation culturelle, en fait un projet d’une grande pertinence à suivre. Le financement offert par le Gouvernement du Canada au projet (Programme Nouveau Horizons pour les aînés) démontre la crédibilité des promoteurs et l’importance du sujet. Une recherche-action soutenant l’accompagnement et l’évaluation de l’impact collectif est alors très pertinente.

Exploration of Novel Fuels for Gas Turbine Applications

The internship for each student will be under the supervision of Gilles Bourque PhD, the

Combustion Research and Technology Team Leader. Mr Bourque has been working for the

past 12 years at RR Canada of which 10 in the Combustion department. The student will be

an integral part of his team and as such will also interact with key members of the team on a

daily basis. A usual week would start with a team meeting where members give: 1) a verbal

update of their progress, 2) when a significant chunk of work has been completed a short

presentation summarising the achievements, and 3) the planned work for the week is revised

and agreed with all members. This work environment is highly appreciated by the

undergraduate and graduate students as we welcome an increasing number of students

choosing RR Canada for their internship. Since 2005 we have taken onboard more than 150

students from Canadian universities.

Linking Forests and Cities: Wood Fuel Logistics and Carbon Performance

This study aims to produce a feasibility report on establishing a district energy system in Toronto, Ontario. The district energy system will be powered by wood chips sourced by a local, privately held forest and transported by rail to the proposed combined heat and power facility. Areas that will be examined in this study include transportation costs and logistics as well as carbon emissions throughout the supply chain. We hope that the outcome of this study will help create a path to revitalize Ontario’s forest industry.

Development of an Enhanced Ground Control Station Equipped with an Advanced Stand-Alone Virtual Reality Headset

The main purpose of this project is to develop an enhanced portable ground Control Station (GCS) equipped with an Advanced Stand-Alone Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display (ASVR-HMD). In the beginning, a Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) stand-alone Virtual Reality (VR) headset would be connected to the flight simulation tool. The VR HMD will be used to visualize basic flight simulation. Then, an onboard camera would be integrated to the aircraft provided by the partner organization. The VR HMD developed earlier will be used by pilots to accomplish actual flight testing of the proposed aircraft via real time video input enabling First-Person View (FPV) operation. Finally, the overall integration, improvement, expansion and testing will be accomplished. Herein, the main focus will be towards combining the view from actual flight test to simulated flight test by providing the necessary symbology and data for the pilot to better understand the aircraft performance and operations for validation.

Coupling the liquid pool and wellbore hydraulic module of the “Prediction and Optimization Software Package” – Part 3

In the last decade optimization is expanded in many applications from food production to sophisticated applications such as engine fuel efficiency. In the proposed package, it is tried to apply optimization techniques along with physics based analytical and semi-analytical methodologies to create a compelling framework which can help thermal-process based oil industry to reduce their GHG and also better evaluate their CAPEX. Many SAGD projects are overspent on their facilities due to under prediction or overprediction of their oil production expectations. this package will help operators to predict their expectations and improve their predictions as more inputs are provided such 4D seismic, temperature and pressure observation wells, production data, and geological characterization.

Low-cost Machine Type Communication User Equipments for LTE.

Machine-to-machine (M2M) devices are defined as the equipments which do not require a direct human interaction for communicating to each other. M2M networks are predicted to have a large end-user market in the near future with numerous potential applications, such as home automation, patient monitoring, transportation, and smart metering. Currently, the main bottleneck is to reduce the overall cost of these equipments in order to enable a practical implementation of densely-deployed M2M networks which can cover an area of interest and, for example, connect different regions of a city. The proposed research will be part of Sierra

Wireless’ ongoing activities to develop such low-cost machine-type communication devices compliant with the long-term evolution (LTE) communications standard.

Dual Crankshaft Actuation System for Robotic Legs

The aim of this project is optimize and experiment with a type of actuation for a robotic leg where all the motors are attached to the body and their powers transmitted to the joints of the leg witn a dual crankshaft mechanism. This mechanism is envisioned as a possible alternative for one of our walking machine.The intern will be in charge of implementing the kinematic, static, and possibly dynamic (if needed) equations modeling the mechanism. Then, simulations and optimizations will be conducted. If the results appear promising, a prototype will be manufactured and experimented with.

Additive Manufacturing of Reinforced-polymer Composites

Additive manufacturing, or three-dimensional (3D) printing, of composites is a grouping of different shaping processes that allows the fabrication of structures through robotic deposition of material by means of a computer model. This technology is a very promising avenue for the implementation of many mechanical and aerospace systems. The research team focuses on the development of advanced composite materials offering multiple functionalities (where multiple properties are desired for a given application) for additive manufacturing (e.g., FDM, SLA, solvant assisted, extrusion-based). The research team innovates with freeform, multi-material and multi-functional printing of complex mechanical/aerospace systems.

Payload Transport with Drones

The Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory of Polytechnique Montréal is specialized in drone development and applications. The intern will join the team in charge of developing a payload transport system with drones. IN this research work we will develop a simulation environment, validate the different control strategies in the simulation environment and implement the controllers on the drones.

Development of novel therapeutics for multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens by targeting indel-containing essential proteins

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pathogens are ubiquitous in hospitals and community settings. New antibiotics against unexploited targets are urgently needed to better control such infections. The proposed research aims to identify novel, drug targets and therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant nosocomial pathogens, capitalizing on a proprietary indel-targeting approach that takes advantage of structural differences between homologous essential human and pathogen proteins. The nominee will help identify inhibitors for two of Indel Therapeutics’ microbial drug discovery programs through a number of biochemical and biological assays aimed at identifying the most potent and selective inhibitors for the development of potential antimicrobials for the treatment of multidrug-resistant pathogens. The participation of the intern in the Company’s drug discovery efforts will accelerate the Company’s milestones and increase its internal resources towards higher priority advanced projects. Longer term, the research will lead to the creation of novel classes of…TOBECONTINUED

Modélisation, caractérisation et simulation de systèmes embarqués de conduite automatisée dans les autobus intelligents et leurs applications à la détection, la reconnaissance et la poursuite d’obstacles

Au cours des cinq dernières années, les systèmes de perception embarqués dans les véhicules intelligents deviennent moins dispendieux et donc plus populaires pour les applications de conduite automatisée. Ils permettent à la fois de détecter les obstacles, d’estimer leur distance relative par rapport au véhicule, de les classer et de suivre leur déplacement relatif en temps réel. Le projet proposé ici porte sur trois volets exploratoires et complémentaires d’intérêt pour Nova Bus Volvo : 1) Construction d’une plateforme de développement des fonctions de perception pour la conduite autonome de bus et le développement d’un prototype multi-capteurs pour l’acquisition de données réelles sur les bus de Nova Bus Volvo, 2) La fusion de données multi-capteurs du type lidar, radar et vidéo pour la détection, la classification et la poursuite d’objets en temps réel, 3) L’intelligence artificielle embarquée pour le développement et la simulation des fonctions de perception et de prise de décision dans un bus autonome. Le projet d’une durée de trois ans implique la firme Nova Bus Volvo Inc., une firme à Saint-Eustache, spécialisée dans le développement et la fabrication d’autobus de pointe.

Design and Experiment of a Bipedal Robot

The aim of this research project is to improve the design of one of our robotic leg (see https://youtu.be/2zo5aSJEjhY). This leg is able to mechanically adapt its walking pattern in reaction to a collision without any sensor or high-level control. The objective of this research internship is to update the mechanical design of the leg (reinforcements and stiffeners are needed) and duplicate this revised version to obtain a bipedal robot. Then, a testbed consisting of various simple terrains will be needed to evaluate the efficiency of the resulting robot when traversing these terrains. Experiments will be conducted to collect data about the most efficient walking gaits and robot configuration.