There is an increasing amount of potentially distracting information being made available to drivers. However, applications (e.g., for navigation, work, entertainment, etc.) need to be aware of driver workload so that they don’t create unsafe distraction. This work is important because distracted driving is a major risk factor for road accidents and the threat of […]

Sleep apnea, which affects 10% of adults, is a disorder that causes breathing to repeatedly stop during sleep, leading to reduced blood oxygen and fragmented sleep. It increases the risk of HF by four times, of hypertension or stroke by three times, and doubles the risk of car accidents. Health care utilization is doubled in […]

Heavy oil (high viscosity oil) is trapped underground. Cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) is an enabling technology to extract heavy oil through wormholes forming around wellbore. There are thousands of CHOPS wells in Saskatchewan and Alberta with low primary oil recovery. Cyclic solvent injection (CSI) enhanced oil recovery process stands out as one […]

Bionik Laboratories Inc. has developed ExoLegs™, a battery powered, motor driven, robotic pair of legs intended for use in rehabilitation and mobility enhancement of individuals with paraplegia. ExoLegs represents a technology that improves rehabilitation and recovery of paraplegics and reduces secondary health issues that result from confinement to wheelchairs for extended periods. The proposed research […]

Ce projet consiste à innover en offrant aux consommateurs un outil de calcul des coûts de leurs entretiens et réparations automobiles, qui sont aujourd’hui très différents d’un garage à l’autre. En ayant une estimation des coûts réels que les entretiens devraient lui coûter dans les prochaines années, le consommateur ne se fera pas avoir, paiera […]

Located in Montréal, Canada, NG is a pioneer in the high-precision metal AM market and the premier Canadian metal 3D printer provider. To solidify their unique market position, it is key to increase their deposition process expertise and explore technologies for process performance improvement and added value proposition. The proposed project aims to support this […]

Precision agriculture is adopting site-specific agriculture practices reducing farm inputs and increasing productivity. Site-specific agriculture requires information about every inch of the field. Provided the large farm holding of the Canadian Prairies, getting extensive information about the field is an uphill task. Currently, limited samples are taken from the field resulting in low spatial resolution. […]

In this project, we propose a universal internet of things (IoT) device that connects between the residual limb of an amputee patient and the prosthesis to measure the patient’s comfort levels. This device’s novelty lies in its ability to physically connect to most of the currently available prosthetic devices to provide the user with insightful […]

In collaboration with Vee Canada Inc and Sona College of Technology and Vee Technologies in India, we propose to create a noncontact Electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring system embedded into different furniture such as a bed and chair for fully sensing and processing human heart activity using textile-based sensors and machine learning modules. The project’s ultimate goal […]

This project seeks to examine how impurities affect the polymerization kinetics of recycled polyester monomers. The textile industry used over 50 million tons of polyester fibers made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) annually.1 Because polyester fibers are slow to degrade, waste textiles have accumulated in landfill and natural environments, causing near-permanent land contamination.2 The ability to […]

This work aims to design and develop an efficient visual based vehicle re-identification system for International Road Dynamic. Vehicle re-identification, which is defined as: Identifying, classifying, and position-referencing a vehicle of interest through images/video streams collected via a network of camera stations, plays a key role towards developing intelligent transportation system.

Removal of specialized coatings and paint from lightweight aircraft structures through laser ablation is very promising and environmentally safe decoating process compared to existing methods such as chemical stripping. However, research is needed to understand the effect of the laser process on the underlying materials. This project will include an in-depth experimental study of the […]