API Usability of Machine Learning Libraries

API usability specifies how easy, efficient, error-preventing, and pleasant an API of a software library is from its users’ perspective. With machine learning (ML) techniques becoming increasingly powerful and pervasive, many non-programmers and casual users (e.g. domain experts in medicine or geography) started to explore ML libraries. However, many find them challenging to use because […]

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Simulation of Aeration inside a Hydroelectric Turbine

This research project is aimed at improving the oxygenation of water downstream of hydroelectric dams; one of the issues being to preserve the aquatic fauna. The goal is to develop the fundamental understanding and applied technology needed by industry in the field of two-phase flows. Experimental and numerical tools are developed to design similar laws, […]

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Méthodes de prédiction pour la collecte d’huile usagée

Le projet de recherche porte sur la prédiction probabiliste d’une demande intermittente. On cherche à prédire la distribution statistique du niveau de remplissage d’un réservoir en fonction du temps, à l’aide des données des derniers services. Ces prédictions permettront d’optimiser les fenêtres de temps des prochains services. De ce fait, on augmentera le taux de […]

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Micro Refinery Unit, GTL

The Home University, the Home Supervisor and the intern involved with this Mitacs Globalink project agree to be bound by the standard intellectual property (IP) terms of the Canadian university and, furthermore, hereby irrevocably assign all their rights, title and interest in and to any Project Intellectual Property to the Canadian University, as may be […]

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Styrenic Polymers Debromination and Recycling

The current feedstock of en-life high impact polystyrene (HIPS) is currently impossible to be valorized and recyled due the presence of brominated fire retardants (FRs). The presence of those FRs is consequence of the need from the electronic industry to compile with the security regulations. However, now those brominated compounds are to be banned due […]

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Caractérisation de pastilles supraconductrices dans un champ magnétique rotatif

Le projet de recherche entrepris dans ce stage vise à établir une méthodologie pour caractériser des pastilles supraconductrices en fonction de l’angle d’un champ magnétique appliqué. Avec l’aide du magnétomètre géant du groupe de Philippe Vanderbemden, l’aimantation d’une pastille supraconductrice plongée dans un champ peut être déterminée pour obtenir sa densité de courant critique, une […]

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Styrenic Polymers Debromination and Recycling

The current feedstock of en-life high impact polystyrene (HIPS) is currently impossible to be valorized and recycled due the presence of brominated fire retardants (FRs). The presence of those FR´s is consequence of the need from the electronic industry to compile with the security regulations. However, now those brominated compounds are to be banned due […]

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Design and Experiment of a Bipedal Robot

The aim of this research project is to improve the design of one of our robotic leg (see https://youtu.be/2zo5aSJEjhY). This leg is able to mechanically adapt its walking pattern in reaction to a collision without any sensor or high-level control. The objective of this research internship is to update the mechanical design of the leg […]

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Payload Transport with Drones

The Mobile Robotics and Autonomous Systems Laboratory of Polytechnique Montréal is specialized in drone development and applications. The intern will join the team in charge of developing a payload transport system with drones. IN this research work we will develop a simulation environment, validate the different control strategies in the simulation environment and implement the […]

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Additive Manufacturing of Reinforced-polymer Composites

Additive manufacturing, or three-dimensional (3D) printing, of composites is a grouping of different shaping processes that allows the fabrication of structures through robotic deposition of material by means of a computer model. This technology is a very promising avenue for the implementation of many mechanical and aerospace systems. The research team focuses on the development […]

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Dual Crankshaft Actuation System for Robotic Legs

The aim of this project is optimize and experiment with a type of actuation for a robotic leg where all the motors are attached to the body and their powers transmitted to the joints of the leg witn a dual crankshaft mechanism. This mechanism is envisioned as a possible alternative for one of our walking […]

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Filament quality control system for FFF 3D printing

Additive manufacturing, also referred to as 3D printing, gains increasing popularity in many industrial sectors. Fused filament fabrication is one 3D printing technology that is suitable for a variety of different applications in the field of aerospace, transportation and automotive. One major challenge in implementing this technology at an industrial scale is to guarantee consistent […]

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