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Distributed Data-driven Model Predictive Control for Air-ring Systems with Application to the Blown Film Industry

The blown plastic film industry is constantly evolving, and the simpler products of just a few years ago are being displaced by new technical films. Market pressures have demanded a lower cost of plastic film with higher quality and thinner gauges. As a result of these trends, the demand for improvements in gauge control of the film increases dramatically, especially for manufacturers with older generations of equipment. The proposed MITACS project named “Thickness AI” will develop a distributed learning-based model predictive control (MPC) algorithm to improve film quality and save energy consumption. More precisely, this project will develop a data-driven method to learn the system model of the air-ring system in the blown film product line based on the offline collected input-output trajectories. Then, the distributed MPC (DMPC) algorithm is designed for the air-ring system to improve the gauge and uniformity of the film. The success of this project will not only fulfill the control objectives of the film but also extend the life of the manufacturing equipment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yang Shi

Student:

Partner:

Macro Engineering & Technology Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

L’attention à autrui chez Adorno : une perspective féministe

Mon projet de recherche consiste à retracer ce qui, dans la pensée du théoricien de l’École de Francfort T. W. Adorno, forge un concept d’attention ou de souci pour autrui, afin de démontrer que certains aspects de son œuvre sont à même de nourrir une critique sociale féministe. Je m’intéresserai particulièrement aux descriptions des mécanismes sociaux propres au capitalisme qui neutralisent, selon Adorno, toute possibilité d’une attention réelle à la souffrance ou aux besoins des autres. Ces recherches visent à constituer un chapitre de mon mémoire de maîtrise, qui porte sur l’idée d’attention à autrui chez Adorno ainsi que chez différentes théoriciennes de l’éthique du care et entend ainsi démontrer les liens complémentaires et féconds entre les deux corpus. Elles fourniront aussi le matériau de base à une communication scientifique (écrite ou orale) traitant de la portée féministe de la pensée d’Adorno. Ces recherches se dérouleront grâce à l’aide précieuse que procureront l’accès aux archives Adorno de Berlin ainsi que l’accès aux différentes activités du centre Humanities and Social Change et les échanges intellectuels enrichissants qui s’y dérouleront.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Iain Macdonald

Student:

Partner:

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Factors influencing differential migration in Chinook Salmon

The goal of the study is to track Chinook Salmon migrations and determine the factors that influence an individual’s migration decisions. We will catch juvenile Chinook Salmon and release them back into the ocean after placing small electronic devices inside their bodies that will allow us to track their migrations. As a result, we will be able to detect when a tagged fish migrates to the open ocean, or if it remains resident in the Strait of Georgia for its entire marine life. One goal is to determine when migration out of the Strait of Georgia occurs. We will also compare migration decisions to individual body size and prior growth rates to identify factors that influence the decision to migrate out of the Salish Sea or remain resident. Migration decisions may affect survival and reproductive success, so it is important to understand why some fish migrate much further than others.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Francis Juanes

Student:

Partner:

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Experimentally Tuned Airframe Hybrid Stick Model Employing Digital Image Correlation for Ground Vibration Testing

This research presents a new experimentally tuned reduced-order modeling methodology employing a hybrid stick model representation. Digital image correlation (DIC) is used to synthesize mode shapes within a frequency range of interest during Ground Vibration Testing (GVT). Experimental mode shapes
are augmented into the Guyan Reduced Order Model (ROM) to develop a corresponding Craig-Bampton ROM. The latter is used to compute residual mass and stiffness matrices to supplement a traditional stick model developed through a unitary loading method; this accounts for the dynamic imparity between the stick model and the global finite element model as the simplified stick model generally ignores degree of freedom coupling. The new method proposes retaining the handling flexibilities of the conventional stick model while adding experimental dynamic accuracy of the matrix-based Craig-Bampton condensation technique in conjunction with the full-field vibration characteristics. A case study is proposed to evaluate the dynamic fidelity of an experimentally tuned hybrid stick model where the modal fidelity of the proposed hybrid stick model is compared against that of the experimental model.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mostafa El Sayed

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace Inc (Dorval, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

The Evaluation and Improvement of VCOs Designed for IEEE 802.11ad (WIGig) Applications

During the proposed Mitacs Accelerate program time period, the intern (student researcher) will electrically evaluate, revise, and improve the integrated circuits himself designed for Peraso Technologies in winter 2013. This project will also include the design and implementation of a die package that hosts Peraso’s wireless communication systems including the integrated circuits designed by the intern. This project is part of Peraso’s R&D effort to improve the performance of its existing wireless communication system. The results from this project have strong potential to be implemented in its future commercial products. In the same time, the research carried out will lead to the successful completion of the intern’s thesis report. Therefore, this project is beneficial to both the industrial partner (Peraso Technologies) and the intern (Yin Fei Meng).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brian Frank

Student:

Partner:

Peraso Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Characterization, Modelling and AI-Monitoring of Additive-Subtractive Manufacturing of Biomedical and Aerospace Components

Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained significant interest of aerospace and biomedical industries to produce light weight components with complex geometries. Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technology is an AM, process which can improve the productivity and the material efficiency of low volume-high variety manufacturing. After the AM process, the parts usually require a certain level of post-processing subtractive manufacturing (machining) to achieve the desired surface finish and dimensional and geometric accuracies.
The terminal objective of the proposed research is to characterize and optimize the hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing (ASM) process to improve and control the quality of the manufactured parts for aerospace and bio-medical applications.
In this project, the following three tasks were identified: 1) Optimization of the Hybrid Additive-Subtractive Manufacturing ASM of Aerospace and Biomedical Components; 2) Modelling and Simulation of Additive Manufacturing Process to Minimize Part Distortion; and 3) Artificial Intelligence – Based Process Monitoring and Adaptive Control.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Helmi Attia

Student:

Partner:

SECO Tools Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services; Retail trade

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Prediction of Spatio-temporal Permeability in Granular Suffusive Soils Using Discrete Element Modeling

Water retaining structures such as earth dams hold majority of country’s water resources, and are the lifeblood of our community and agricultural economy. An unseen and yet critical phenomenon threatening the stability of these structures is internal erosion, which is responsible for about 46% of all embankment dam failures. The risk management related to volumetric erosion, named suffusion, calls the development of a numerical model that allows the prediction of the transient evolution of erosion. Such model requires the development of a new relationship that can describe the evolution of the local permeability during the suffusion process including the evolutions of the particle size distribution and the constriction size distribution that describe the soil’s micro-structure. The improved fundamental understanding of internal erosion will also help improve the state of the art in designing granular filters in dams.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wenbo Zheng

Student:

Partner:

The University of Queensland

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Mutual avoidance between young and older adults when passing through an aperture #2

The ability to perceive the motion of approaching person and to make appropriate adjustments to avoid collisions is an essential component of safe locomotion through the environment. The proposed project will investigate young and older adults’ collision avoidance behaviours with an approaching young adult in order to understand the visual information used to accomplish the task. The proposed research project will have two individuals approach an open doorway from opposite sides and pass through without colliding with each other. Both individuals’ movements will be tracked as they approach and pass through the doorway. The project will determine whether individuals use optical information, such as Time-to-Contact (TTC), to determine who will pass through the doorway first and avoid colliding with the other individual. TTC is amount of time that remains before each individual will reach the doorway and if used, will not only determine the arriving order, but also preserve this crossing order. It is believed that young adults will be in-tune with this optical information and use it to guide their actions whereas older adults may not use this information.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Cinelli

Student:

Partner:

Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes 2

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Scaling Up AltumView’s Marketing Campaign

AltumView is a Vancouver start-up company and has been working wholeheartedly for the past few years to develop the Sentinare Smart Activity Sensor for senior care. The trend of senior living at their own houses and independently from their children is becoming more popular. Moreover, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, the seniors are high-risk individuals. The help they receive from caregivers and family members are reduced and this puts seniors in a difficult situation. The AltumView product aims to offer help for family members and caregivers to take care of seniors by featuring fall detection through using artificial intelligent technology, while protecting the privacy of the seniors. The product has a high potential of growth in the future because of its unique mission, especially since it will be integrated into Amazon’s Alexa Together system. However, the company has been focusing on the product development. The company now wants to introduce the products to the customer market and expand the product presence as well as brand awareness. In order to achieve this, an on-going marketing strategy is needed, and the company also needs to keep its social media accounts active. These will be the focus of this project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yupin Yang

Student:

Partner:

Altumview Systems Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Design and fabrication of cavitation tubes for efficient activation water in a flow

Plasma activated water (PAW) is water that carries active species generated by cold plasm. Chemical species generated from plasma treatment are complex matrix consisting of free radicals and ions. Reactive nitrogen and oxygen species (RNOS) produced by cold plasma discharge with air as the working gas contribute to highly desired functionalities of PAW for a broad range of applications. In agriculture, PAW treatment may lead to enhanced seed germination and higher growth rate of plants, and improve the tolerance of plants against abiotic stresses. However, the large-scale application of PAW has been energy intensive, due to lack of readily available technology for fast and high throughput PAW production. This project will design a new activation process for PAW in a flow to enable high throughput production of PAW for real applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xuehua Zhang

Student:

Partner:

Disruptive Separation Technology Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Snehal Sagun Grant Application

At Hammond Power Solutions Inc. we are currently running Sharepoint 2013 on premise. Support for this version will expire shortly so we need to move the content to the cloud to ensure business continuity. The main product we use to develop our forms in Sharepoint 2013 is Infopath which is also no longer supported. The designated project for this internship will be to identify new cloud technologies to replace InfoPath. The intern will be responsible for developing some examples/test environments to see what option would be the best fit. The cloud platform will support the business for upcoming projects and content in the coming years. Another benefit is that cloud-based technologies are constantly updated without extensive work from Hammond employees, while our current on premise updates are much more challenging and time-consuming. Overall, the intern will be responsible for reviewing the business needs and specifications, and connecting with both internal and external human resources (ex. supervisor, IT team members, external vendors) to gain guidance on which software is best suited for the organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rima Khatib

Student:

Partner:

Hammond Power Solutions

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Child Strength: Supporting communities through executive functioning and early literacy strategies

It is evident that children require support for executive function and emergent literacy development to optimize their personal well-being, school, learning and life success. This project focuses on how to best support executive function [EF] and early emergent literacy [EL] acquisition for our children by providing a parent and early childcare community with strategies on how to engage and immerse young learners in developmentally appropriate activities. Executive functions, or the thinking skills, emerge in the first year of life and are supported and enhanced by language (including language spoken by parents, caregivers and others in the child’s environment including playmates). In order to ensure EF skills and EL are introduced and reinforced in our children, there must be a concerted effort to strengthen the knowledge and skills of parents and preschool teachers related to foundational EF and EL skills. This research study involves working with the early childcare educators and parents of the Coalhurst, AB Parent Link Centre’s Stay and Play [SnP] program over a one-year period. The researchers will create and assist in implementing developmentally appropriate EF and EL strategies to both the early childcare educators and parents.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robbin Gibb;Bryan Kolb

Student:

Partner:

Barons Eureka Warner Family Community Social Supports;Sinneave Family Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Accelerate

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