This project further develops and implements unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autonomous landing on underway ships in a sea state under zero visibility (Canadian Arctic operations). The was developed, implemented, and verified by Dalhousie University on an experimental UAV to TRL 4. The present project’s objective is to also implement the verified capabilities on an UAV […]

The project includes the integration of a new software for crew scheduling at ViaRail, which will make uniform the crew scheduling rules. Crew scheduling is currently distributed over 5 geographical centers at ViaRail, with each center producing schedules independently. Consequently, the project will include three phases: collecting the current practices for crew scheduling in the […]

This work aims to design and develop an efficient visual based vehicle re-identification system for International Road Dynamic. Vehicle re-identification, which is defined as: Identifying, classifying, and position-referencing a vehicle of interest through images/video streams collected via a network of camera stations, plays a key role towards developing intelligent transportation system.

In order to maintain safe and efficient operations, railway systems periodically use large, special purpose, trackbound grinding machines to re-establish the desired profiles of rails, and to remove surface damage that has occurred under operating conditions. The accuracy of the grinding process is typically measured using quality indices to compare the resulting rail profile to […]

Improving and optimizing a full scale prototype which is being used to develop electric vehicle control software

Ontology induction from unstructured text is a long standing goal of Natural Language Processing (NLP). An ontology can serve a number of tasks, such as question answering, Information Retrieval to name a few. In fact, practice communities are often relying on an ontology in their daily decision making process. This is the case of IATA, […]

This research is motivated by the need to coordinate matching and pricing decisions in resource sharing platforms. In general, matching decisions can be seen from different standpoints of shippers, carriers, and the platform. We are particularly interested in investigating the matching problem considering all standpoints simultaneously, which has not received much attention in the literature […]

Les expositions aux émanations de moteur diesel (EMD) sont omniprésentes et les chauffeurs de véhicules diesels constituent des groupes à risques au regard des fréquences et des intensités d‘expositions. Plusieurs méthodes ont été proposées pour évaluer l’exposition professionnelle aux EMD mais peu d’études comparatives sont disponibles et aucun consensus ne semble émerger. Le projet proposé […]

Adding hydrogen to the intake stream in a commercial truck diesel engine can reduce the vehicle’s CO2 emissions. Combining hydrogen available from industrial waste processes with a low cost and robust fuelling system offers a near-term, economically attractive approach to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from commercial trucking. To support the development of this technology, […]

Land snails are important ecological components of ecosystems, providing multiple services that maintain the health of ecosystems in which they occur. The Oregon forestsnail (Allogona townsendiana), currently designated as Endangered under the Species at Risk Act, is found only in southwestern British Columbia in Canada at the northernmost extent of its known range. Trans Mountain […]

The hydrologic cycle in major cities is influenced by roadways, rooftops, and other features, resulting in greater runoff and poorer water quality. At airport sites across Canada, de-icing compounds can also degrade water quality by altering water chemistry in surface ponds as well as subsurface water (i.e., groundwater). This project aims to characterize water movement […]

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 […]