Multi-sensor long-range object detection & classification under challenging perceptual conditions

Autonomous vehicles must be constantly aware of all aspects of the driving environment, and so are typically designed with both omni-directional and long-range forward sensor footprints. The ability to accurately detect, track and predict the motion of distant vehicles and pedestrians along the driving route remains a significant challenge, for today’s state of the art […]

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Efficient Screening Method for Novel Fluorescent Emitters

Canadian public and private researchers have taken an interest in a new class of light-emitting materials which can produce better colour in OLED smartphone and television screens. Currently, the only way to fully confirm that a specific material in this class has the desired properties is to build it into a prototype OLED pixel. This […]

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Geometric Deep Learning of Volatility Surfaces

Options are financial instruments that are used to manage risk, hedge investments, and speculate. The value of these options depends on the price of the underlying asset and a multitude of different variables. As a result, pricing models can become complex, requiring infeasibly expensive routines or simulations to be run to price a single option. […]

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Investigation of interactions between biobased wax emulsions and pMDI wood adhesives

Wax emulsions are widely used in conjunction with wood adhesives to improve overall dimensional stability of the resulting wood products. In this study, we will investigate kraft lignin and waste tallow as sustainable, biobased partial replacements for fossil fuel derived wax. These renewable, hydrophobic materials can be formulated into a wax emulsion using conventional emulsification […]

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Conception de roues de turbine renversée à haut ratio de pression et l’évaluation de leur niveau de confinement

Dans le but de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, l’industrie aérienne a tout intérêt à électrifier leur système de puissance. Par contre, un aéronef entièrement électrique n’est pas présentement possible en raison de la masse ajoutée par une batterie qui serait trop grande. En fait, étant donné leur densité de puissance […]

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Canadian Zeolites for Integrated Desalination, Nutrient Recovery and Bioremediation

Natural Canadian zeolite is an attractive mineral for the restoration of lands disturbed by the extraction of natural resources such as metals, oil and gas. Dr. Wonjae Chang’s Environmental Engineering Lab developed a dualmineral prototype, using Canadian zeolites, for the desalination of potash brine-impacted water. Dr. Chang also demonstrated the significant accumulation of residual potassium […]

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Dynamique de la regeneration du peuplier faux-tremble suite auxOperations de remise en production de peuplements degrades.

II ya une dizalne d’annee, une epidemie d’insectes, la livree des forAts, a provoque de la mortalite au sein des peuplements de peuplier faux-tremble en AbItibi et dans Ie Nord-duQuebec, O’ordinaire, les perturbations naturelles dans ces peuplements n’empachent pas la regeneration de s’etablir, mais ce ne fut pas Ie cas suite 8 I’epidemie d’jJ y […]

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Enhancement of Virtual Synchronous Machine Algorithms with Energy Storage

Modern electric power systems are rapidly adopting renewable energy resources. This positive movement, however, does bring with it major challenges to the way we operate power systems. In particular we may face drastic frequency changes and far-reaching transient phenomena. One way to remedy these is to deploy energy storage systems, such a s batteries, to […]

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Optimal Design of passive filters for variable speed drives

This project aims to design new highly compact and highly effective filters for a multi-level power converter based on wide-bandgap (WBG) transistors that integrates an Active Front Ends on the grid-side. Leveraging the high switching speed of WBG, new light weight multi-stage filters suppressing all switching frequency are designed for both the utility and motor […]

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Optimiser la résilience de la forêt urbaine

Le projet consiste à développer un système et une application web qui permettra aux aménagistes forestiers urbains de choisir la meilleure espèce d’arbre à planter à différents endroits de la ville afin de maximiser les retombées économiques et sociales et la résilience du couvert arboré face aux changements globaux. Nous développerons un système qui regroupera […]

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