Ce projet vise l’amélioration d’une méthode de mesure, utilisant la norme ISO 18437-5, permettant de mesurer les propriétés élastiques de matériaux poreux à squelette élastique. Ces matériaux sont couramment utilisés en combinaison avec des panneaux métalliques ou composites pour contrôler leur comportement vibratoire et acoustique. De tels panneaux forment notamment les coques d’avions et panneaux […]

L’objectif de la recherche est de caractériser au niveau moléculaire et 3D deux macromolécules marines. L’idée est que cette maîtrise serve de premiers pas au développement d’une plateforme de structural chez Merinov. Les données recueillies les deux principales protéines seront utiles aux travaux de Merinov. En effet, une meilleure connaissance de ces macromolécules permettra de […]

This fundamental research project investigates semantic visual navigation tasks, such as asking a household robot to “go find my keys”. We seek to enhance the efficacy of repeated search tasks within the same environment, by explicitly building, maintaining, and exploiting a map of locations that the robot had previously explored. We also seek to exploit […]

L’industrie de la valorisation de bois fait face aujourd’hui à des défis de plus en plus complexes. En plus de leur quête continuelle de performance et de compétitivité, des facteurs tels que les changements climatiques, la disponibilité des ressources, l’augmentation des sources de variabilité ou bien même la rareté des compétences augmentent la pression sur […]

Culture of cells in three-dimension (30) allows cells to interact with their surrounding and grow in all directions and behave in a manner that is more closely associated to how they would in vivo as long as their nutrient and environmental requirements are maintained. In this context, bioprinting offers an advantage over 20 cell cultures […]

Continuous flexible systems such as aircraft wings, pipelines, risers, bridges, power towers, and transmission lines are always subjected to unwanted vibrations induced by unsteady wind loading. The typical engineering solution is to add a tuned-mass damper to these structures. This typically works in removing the unwanted resonance, but it creates new problems as it adds […]

Biocompatible hydrogels have been used for a long time in biomedical applications (e.g. microcarriers for adherent cell growth; drug delivery vehicles). For these applications, controlled pore size and pore interconnectivity are important parameters. The project aims at better characterizing several physicochemical strategies for pore generation. Then, as second objective, the influence of pore size upon […]

Les algues sont considérées comme un aliment à haute valeur nutritive. Cependant, la consommation de ces dernières en tant qu’aliments est peu répandue dans les pays occidentaux. Une manière d’augmenter l’apport en algues serait de les incorporer dans des produits traditionnels. Pour ce faire, il est possible de préparer des produits alimentaires intermédiaires (PAI) d’algues […]

The research proposed in this document will build upon and extend the previously funded CRIAQ (AUT-1701) and MITACS (IT12130) projects on the development of a UAV platform for search and rescue activities in the ski facilities of Domain Saint Bernard in Mont Tremblant in collaboration with SII Canada. The goal of this research is to […]

In this project, we apply deep learning methods to analyze and obtain useful information from text data that are collected from social media, and combine these information with numerical data from physical sensors. We then develop new deep learning based solutions that exploit the combined data in order to track the ships in the open […]

The project aims to extend worksite safety of construction projects at Hydro-Quebec (HQ) using computer vision and a Real-Time Location System (RTLS). The case study is a substation construction project near Montreal. The main safety risks that will be targeted in the case study are related to equipment mobility (struck-by accidents) and not wearing Personal […]

Carbohydrates are promising bio-feedstocks to synthesize functionalized compounds. The US Department of Energy identified seven compounds with a high oxygen to carbon ratio as alternatives to sugar fermentation to ethanol. Transition metals oxidehydrate fructose to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), a monomer for green plastic (polyethylenfuranoate). The aim of this project is to develop a micro-fluidized bed […]