Development of an Avionics system test methodology, based on the Test and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3). This will include (1) a gap analysis between TTCN-3 and current avionics test languages and environments and (2) a large scale case study. Of particular interest, will be the ability to model and verify both continuous control and discrete […]

Ce projet vise à développer une commande intelligente robuste pour la conduite autonome des véhicules dans des conditions nordiques. En général, les véhicules autonomes naviguent dans leur environnement en planifiant d’abord, puis en suivant une trajectoire sûre. Ils doivent en fin de compte effectuer ces tâches aussi bien ou mieux que les conducteurs humains dans […]

La technologie photovoltaïque (conversion de l’irradiation solaire en électricité), fait face à certains défis dans le nord du Canada. Ces défis sont liés à la neige, au givre et à la glace qui peuvent se former sur les panneaux, empêchant le rayonnement solaire d’atteindre les cellules, ce qui réduit la production d’électricité. Ce travail de […]

Traditionally, speech is captured from in front of the mouth. Existing an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) are all made to work with this type of speech. However, noise and other factors can be detrimental to the performance of ASR systems. When using an in-ear device that blocks the earcanal, a microphone can be placed inside […]

The partner organization Croesus aims to provide its customers with a software solution for providing a natural language explanation of fluctuations in investment returns. The proposed research project offers an artificial intelligence-based solution which would provide such an explanation by summarizing financial documents in a way that answers the user’s question. An example of such […]

Le géoradar (GPR) est une technique électromagnétique (EM) pour l’imagerie non invasive de supports opaques, souvent utilisé pour les levés souterrains. Le traitement des données GPR, surtout dans des zones urbaines souterraines, repose sur des opérateurs qualifiés et implique de nombreuses étapes coûteuses. Les résultats sont souvent basés sur de larges hypothèses et impliquent une […]

Support the deployment of a custom UV camera for field operation on a drone. The UV camera is specific to our research project and was already used for crop monitoring in a fixed setup. The drone to deploy the camera is designed and manufactured by a partner organization, which will provide all the required design […]

Ce projet de recherche a pour objectif principal d’évaluer le confort des passagers dans la cabine d’un train léger lorsque soumis à des accélérations verticales résultant de l’interaction dynamique du système Train-Rail-Pont. Afin d’obtenir des résultats réalistes, une analyse dynamique détaillée par éléments finis s’avère nécessaire. La méthodologie proposée dans ce projet consiste à évaluer […]

This project is part of a longstanding continuous collaboration between Ultra and École de technologie supérieure that seeks to leverage the advancements of artificial intelligence (AI) to design a comprehensive framework for a robust ad-hoc underwater tactical wireless networks (AUTWNs). The network will be featured with privacy preserving mechanism to assist threat classification and self-organizing […]

The objectives of this research project are (a) to record neuromuscular, cardiorespiratory, and cognitive related data using wearable sensors during running and hopping as two basic activities of many sports; and (b) convert the data to medically meaningful indicators of athletic performance and risk of injury using signal processing and machine learning algorithms. The project […]

Many chemicals can be used for the mix design of concrete 3D printing. With a traditional experimental approach, the number of experiments to conduct is exponential. The objective of this study is to develop a cement-based material suitable for 3D concrete printing applications by utilizing optimization and predictive algorithms. The question to answer is if […]

The goal of the project is to develop an improved design process and tools for an aircraft structure based on digital simulation and artificial intelligence. In order to minimize costs and improve the reliability of numerical simulations, we plan to reduce the number of physical tests, while optimizing the instrumentation. This will result in better […]