Imagine a freezingly cold winter day with the strong wind blowing outside your house somewhere in Newfoundland, and you are comfortably sitting in your room with heating and warm water – even during a power outage! This could be realized with a novel device that directly converts the wind energy to heat. This project aims […]

Le projet de recherche cherche à comprendre l’impact de l’innovation technologique sur la productivité et la durabilité en chantier. L’objectif principal du projet de recherche est donc d’investiguer et de documenter les différentes catégories d’innovation technologiques, notamment la construction industrialisée, dans une optique d’accroissement de la productivité et de la durabilité et d’encouragement de l’innovation […]

Lux est une entreprise de robotique spatiale spécialisée dans la conception, la fabrication et l’exploitation de satellites atmosphériques pour l’observation de la Terre. Les satellites atmosphériques de Lux sont constitués de ballons de haute altitude équipés d’une nacelle stratosphérique de matériel qui supporte un large éventail d’instruments scientifiques comme par exemple du matériel de télédétection. […]

A swarm of robots should be available on the board of a vessel or oil rig so they will be deployed when spill occurs. Based on our existing know-how knowledge and technology, the swarm of robots automatically detect the boundary of the oil, then they deploy inflatable booms to contain the oil. After they successfully […]

This project is about image upscaling which refers to the task of constructing a high resolution image of a given lower resolution image, while preserving features of the original image, such as sharpness and texture. One of the utmost difficulties that limit practical application of state-of4he-art upscaling algorithms is their inherent computation demand, and thus, […]

This project is aiming at the development of integrated computed tomography (CT) for automated integrity control of tools used in nuclear reactors during maintenance and inspection activities. Due to large number of complex tools, and the fact that the current process of tool integrity check is performed manually, the time required to finish the integrity […]

The real-time monitoring of sea surface wind and wave information are crucial to the safety, performance and efficiency of various weather-sensitive on- and offshore operations, such as oil & gas platform drilling, port operations and offshore wind farming. This project plans to propose an accurate and robust method to estimate sea surface wind and wave […]

The proposed work targets the development of a fiber optic hydrophone array for underwater acoustics detection and recognition, with the potential for applications in national defense. We propose a new concept of using a small-size low-cost fiber optic hydrophone that are nearly undetectable and can be deployed in a dense array across a wide area […]

The purpose of this project is to take existing state-of-art machine learning techniques and implement them for ice classification in polar seas. Ice classification plays a critical role in any icebreaker voyage. An ice specialist onboard the icebreaker is required to classify all ice environments encountered. This process is tedious and time consuming. This project […]

Computer simulations have been widely used by the offshore and marine industry, but they typically use different software to simulate different components of a single operational scenario. For example, the tool can be used for the analysis of wave loads of a moored structure in ice infested areas, eliminating the need for analyzing wave load, […]

Failure of reinforced concrete plates is caused by the decrease in its stiffness as a result of cracking. This leads to corrosion of the steel reinforcement. Conventional concrete mixtures may not be sufficient to provide the tensile resistance required to minimize cracking. Using fibre reinforced concrete (FRC) can be considered a practical and economical solution […]

Ice load is a major design concerns for structures in the ice prone region especially for slender, monopole structures such as wind turbine towers where the dynamic load can induce severe vibrations. A careful assessment is essential to demonstrate the economic viability of such projects; however, the current design guidelines does not cover site-specific conditions […]