Food security is a global concern due to the ever-increasing population amid limited agricultural land resources. Farmers utilize fertilizers and herbicides to ensure consistent crop establishment. However, overuse of fertilizers and other treatments leads to negative consequences resulting in soil depletion, environmental contamination, and pollution. An effective way to reduce these toxic chemicals is to […]

Confidential data is one of the most precious assets large organizations can have and data theft can be embarrassing and costly. In this research we will carry out innovative research on detecting employee accounts that are exhibiting risky behaviour that may lead to leakage of data, whether carelessly or through malicious intent. It is difficult […]

Service robots can offer personalized service for people with disabilities and empower the staff with efficient support. This study investigates using a collaborative service robot, Aether in a long-term care home. We work collaboratively with people living with disabilities, families, frontline staff, operation leaders, and industry) to Identify user experience, impact and challenges to inform […]

La simulation et l’émulation sent des voies qui méritent d’être explorées pour alleger le fardeau de la maintenance d’un materiel coûteux et de son infrastructure. Trouver et mettre en oeuvre le bon niveau de details dans un simulateur de périphérique permet de prototyper et de tester rapidement le logiciel afin de réduire les délais de […]

Annabelle’s research will focus on training image captioning datasets for the Drive By Science Project taking place in NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars Rover Artificial Intelligence (AI) division. The Drive by Science Project addresses a critical issue: the Mars Rover produces substantially more images than can be sent down to Earth, due to the limited […]

La recherche portera sur la mise au point d’un béton composé en tout ou partie d’agrégats de béton recyclés. Les agrégats recyclés remplaceront les agrégats grossiers dans la composition des bétons. Des essais sur la durabilité, la résistance au gel-dégel, le retrait, ainsi que la porosité du béton seront effectués sur les bétons avec des […]

In this project a driving simulator in virtual reality will be designed and developed, in which a user can drive a virtual vehicle in a country road with incoming cars and traffic lights and possibly some animals crossing the road. The users will learn the path to reach a destination through the trial and then […]

Nowadays, the topic of environmental sustainability and eco-friendly materials is present in every area of daily life. This research project, in the field of civil engineering, deals with the study of particular materials used for the construction of road pavements that have as their strong point the fact that they are recycled from existing pavements […]

To address the challenge of increasing flight endurance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a novel technique involving the exploitation of atmospheric energy, typically by soaring in thermal updrafts, is being developed. The AUTOSOAR algorithm developed in a previous Mitacs project permits the UAV to rely less on its onboard motor to maintain altitude, and reduce […]

Le sang appartient à une famille des suspensions particulièrement complexe : il s’agit d’une suspension dense de globule rouges très déformables et interagissant entre eux, ils peuvent par exemple s’agréger. Bien qu’étudié depuis les années 70 par les physiologistes, les mécanismes de ses écoulements complexes ne sont toujours pas bien compris. Le but de ce […]

Le cerveau fait partie des structures complexes les plus remarquables et importantes du corps humain. Le maintien de son intégrité est crucial. Insidieusement, dans les sports de contact, le cerveau est exposé à des impacts répétés asymptomatiques dits « sous-commotionnels » associés à des altérations progressives susceptibles de causer des maladies neurodégénératives. Malheureusement, la réponse […]

As electronic components shrink in size and become more powerful, they create more concentrated heat that needs to be dissipated to ensure reliable operation. Due to the finite conductivity of the sink material, the temperature at the centre of the base plate is higher than the edges, leading to better performance of the fins at […]