Autonomous flying vehicles are the future of aerospace industry. They require a robust trajectory tracking algorithm capable of finding an optimal solution in real-time. Optimal control, such as Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) is a powerful technique which can handle the nonlinearities of a system by including the restrictions and constraints of its states and […]

Ce projet est une collaboration entre l’Université de Sherbrooke et les entreprises Adjuvants Euclid et Duchesne Lac-Mégantic. Il vise à développer un panneau préfabriqué en béton ultra-haute performance pour l’enveloppe des bâtiments. Une version en pierre naturelle de ce type de panneau avec un substrat en fibre de carbone a été déjà été développé et […]

The use of fibre-reinforced polymer materials has been continuously increasing as an alternative to traditional materials, due to their superior durability (absence of corrosion), lightweight, low maintenance cost, and rapid installation. Adhesive bonding techniques for strengthening existing structures, such as near-surface mounted (NSM) and externally bonded reinforcement (EBR) are usually preferable. The long-term performance of […]

Journalists, when curating news, typically rely on enacting certain “voices” and frame content according to established norms. Using Claudia Mellado’s Journalistic Role Performance methodology — which has divided all journalistic roles into the following categories: the watchdog, citizen-watchdog, the loyal-facilitator, the interventionist-disseminator, the service, the infotainment and the civic roles — evaluate common journalistic roles […]

La théorie de la Rélativité General (RG) est la resposable pour décrir le mouvement des corps qui subit l’effet d’une force d’atraction gravitationnel, tel que la terre et la lune. En plus, elle est encore capable de décrire comme doivent être les mouvement des galaxies au ciel, et même de quel façon doit-il l’univers évoluer […]

The project is devoted to make encrypted control systems more practical and valuable to the industry and ensure the security of safety-critical industrial control systems. The research outcome is the development of a novel computationally efficient and secure MPC-based encrypted control system that is appealing to a wide range of safety-critical industrial sectors, including but […]

This project explores how an artistic oral history-based audio walk can be used as a tool for connecting locals, visitors and immigrants with a place and engage them as participants in public debates concerning local development projects in the Azores. Santana Airfield, Azores, is an abandoned complex risking demolition. Zoning laws are changing the landscape. […]

Text-to-image AI models for AI-generated art has recently gained extensive media coverage and has had a significant impact on Japanese art communities and Japanese digital content sites. I am particularly interested in investigating Japanese computer science and software engineering graduate students’ awareness of ethical issues embedded in the technology necessary to create AI-generated art. This […]

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for quadrupedal robot control has recently become tractable. In under an hour, serviceable control policies can be obtained in simulation. However, transferring reinforcement learning from simulation to the real world is still an arduous task. We propose a novel two-agent setup that leverages the good sides of both model-free and model-based […]

The objective of this project is the development of a novel control strategy for multi-agent robots. The objectives are energy saving and efficient robots movements and manoeuvres within clustered environments. To this end, the research intern (with the help of the host and home supervisor) will be in charge of developing a novel distributed control […]

Topological data analysis is a tool used to analyze the shape of a given dataset. It allows one to find topological or geometrical features of even large collections of data. Persistent homology is one of the main approaches to topological data analysis in recent times. The strategy is to set some rule to build geometrical […]

Ce projet comprend l’animation/observation de communauté de pratique pour modéliser et prototyper une amélioration du système de gestion des idées existant et à l’intégrer parfaitement à la gestion de l’innovation technologique de l’IRÉQ. Ce nouveau système permettra la valorisation des idées produites dans un contexte scientifique pour les amener vers un processus d’innovation technologique. Ainsi, […]