Advances in wearable physiological sensors can now potentially provide critical information about human functional states in real-time, in order to support performance, learning, and safety in various work, training and leisure-related contexts. It has been observed that models trained for human state prediction in laboratory suffer from drastic performance loss when deployed on subjects unseen […]

L’Université Laval, l’Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Thales Recherche et Technologie Canada, le Parc Technologique du Québec Métropolitain et la Ville de Québec ont créé une unité mixte de recherche en sciences urbaines (UMR-SU) visant à améliorer la qualité de vie de la population en milieu urbain. L’UMR-SU propose une vision intégrée de la […]

Fish grown in RAS require special water quality conditions to remain healthy and grow. New water is meant to be added to the system only to account for evaporation, splash out, cleaning and flush out of waste materials. However, the amount of makeup water used at the Oak Bay hatchery is excessive when biomass is […]

Dans la plupart des environnements industriels, les approches classiques d’ordonnancement sont rarement capables de prendre en considération l’information en temps réel, qui est de plus en plus présent dans différents systèmes de gestion d’entreprise. L’évolution d’une approche statique vers une approche dynamique permet d’améliorer la performance de l’ordonnancement. L’utilisation d’approches métaheuristiques pour résoudre le problème […]

Les méthodes commerciales actuelles de supervision de l’énergie ne répondent pas aux besoins de l’industrie, car elles sont trop volumineuses, trop couteuses et elles demandent un temps d’installation important. Une approche prometteuse consiste à utiliser des capteurs à effet Hall afin de mesurer l’intensité du courant électrique d’un circuit à partir du champ magnétique produit […]

Deep foundations are sometimes single piles which transfer loads to a stronger and deeper soil layer, but they are generally used in groups. Available design guidelines for lateral response of pile groups are based on the limited experimental studies on “small” pile groups with pile diameters of up to “30-40 cm”. This limitation is due […]

PCa is the second and third leading cause of cancer death for American and Canadian men, respectively. Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) screening is an effective method to diagnose PCa at early stages, however, over-diagnosis/treatment following PSA is detrimental to life quality. Although Active Surveillance (AS) is a very appealing approach for men with early stage PCa, […]

In this project, we aim to build an interactive art sculpture that is intrinsically curious. The sculpture learns by doing some action and observing the consequences. We are interested in studying how people perceive the behaviours emerged form this learning process and how different configuration might change this perception. Moreover, we aim to bring this […]

This project consists of two systems (Electric and Compressed Air) working together to power a vehicle. The electric system is the primary system and if its power source is depleted then the compressed air system can provide power for hours to get the vehicle to the next refilling station. The two systems are recharged during […]

The increased utilization of HVdc technology around the world has created the need for evaluating the reliability of power systems that contains HVdc facilities. For example, if the generation system is remote and it is connected to the load centre through HVdc links, the transmission may have a significant impact on the overall system reliability […]

Improving mining efficiency through sustainable recovery of energyA significant step towards sustainable mining would be non-traditional, but productive uses for the mine. In particular, uses that would allow them to provide value and jobs to the community both during mining and afteroperations cease. To help in achieving this goal there is potential positive use of […]

Often, a mobile terminal has barely enough resources (bitrate and processing power) to support a good quality real-time videoconferencing session with another user. There is a growing need and interest for multi-party videoconferencing but it requires increased resources that these terminals don’t possess. In this project, we investigate the use of a smart transcoder to […]