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Design of a Wearable Soft Sensor to monitor Skin Health

For people with mobility impairments, such as spinal cord injury survivors, rehabilitation and at home care settings come with the possibility of costly, painful pressure ulcers and skin breakdown. Occurring at a high frequency, current practice requires constant vigilance by caretakers and individuals using self-management practices. This injury comes from a prolonged application of pressures, temperatures and humid environments causing the skin to die from a lack of blood flow, usually from situations that an able-bodied person can avoid, but those with mobility impairments cannot. Our research project looks to create a wearable garment, personalised to the individual, that provides information to the user and caretaker on how best to adjust the body’s pose and placement to prevent pressure ulcer formation beyond the current “visual inspection” approach commonly used to decrease pressure ulcer risk.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Tung

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing the charge speed, useable capacity, and cycle life of lithium-ion battery packs using a novel health-conscious fast charging and active balancing strategy

One crucial difficulty with fast charging lithium-ion battery packs is the possibility of battery capacity deterioration if not properly managed. Fast charging electric vehicles for example, should involve ensuring that each one of the thousands of cells are charged safely and are balanced to all the other cells if the range of the vehicle is to be maintained for several years. The most common way to safely charge and balance cells involves a lot of wasted energy and suboptimal capacity saving methods. Our proposed research deals with both these problems by closely managing the charging process as well as the health and charge discrepancies among cells while fast charging. Using a technology like this enables automated systems like vehicles or robots to last long and spend more time on the road as opposed to charging.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xianke Lin

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Prototype of Hybrid Battery Management System (HBMS) to Supply Economic Energy Storage Solution in Ultra-Cold Climate

The battery is considered as the source of power for electric transport. The performance of the battery drops at low temperature which reduces the mileage of Electric Vehicle (EV). This issue is hindering the widespread adoption of EV in cold places like Canada. The Low-Temperature Battery (LTB) can be used in EV to solve the low milage problem in extreme cold temperature, but its cost is around three times higher than the Normal Temperature Battery (NTB). So, using the LTB in an EV is not economically feasible. In this Hybrid proposed Battery Management System, LTB will be used to warm up the NTB in extremely cold weather, and NTB will be used to drive the EV. A controller will control the warm-up process based on the temperature data. All the protections (over-heating, over-voltage, over-current, etc) for LTB & NTB will be ensured in this project to determine system fesability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Cloud-based analysis platform for in-house DNA sequencing: plasmid validation

Biological manufacturers are now to make chemicals and biological products (like proteins) by growing large amounts of microorganisms like bacteria or algae. One major quality control step in the manufacturing process is to check the genetic sequences of these microorganisms because they often not correctly made. This is due to the biological method for manipulating the sequences is not perfect. To check that the genetic sequences are correct, manufacturers typically send samples for DNA sequencing at international service providers. Recent advances in DNA-sequencing technology allow for this to be done in-house, but it requires specialized computers and software skills. We are therefore developing an easy-to-use web application for advanced biological manufacturers to verify genetic sequences in-house, which will significantly speed up the manufacturing process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Gloor

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Intelligent Query and Learning System (IQLS)

Intelligent Query and Learning System (IQLS) is a web application that offers a platform for a business owner, product seller, service provider, doctor, engineer or anyone with a goal of providing service to their client or audience. Using this platform, an individual can train the system with information related to their business, service, or product, and the system becomes ready to answer related questions to their followers or audience who are interested in the service or product. Providing answers to the questions of the clients can help to increase sales and grow the business. The platform provides question-answering scope to the users by means of a public URL or web page where the audience can ask questions. A part of their trained knowledge could be shared with someone else having a similar query, hence the platform can be used from people all around the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Conditional Flow-based Speech-Driven Gesture Synthesis

Speech-driven gesture synthesis is the process of automatically generating relatable and realistic gestures given speech and high-level attributes such as speaker’s style. It is an active research area with applications in video games, animated movies, communicative agents, and human-computer interaction. Commonly, a database of gestures is manually created which are then triggered at different times by markup in dialog. This is a significantly time consuming and tedious step in animation pipelines. Recently, with the power of machine learning approaches, character animation has been pushed forward towards new boundaries. Yet, modelling speech-driven gesture synthesis using machine learning architectures has been proved to be difficult due to the particular characteristics and the nature of the human gesture. To this end, this project aims at pushing forward state-of-the-art speech-driven gesture synthesis performance through: (1) proposing a novel generative machine learning approach that can model natural variations of human motion and can modulate speaker’s style into the generated gestures, (2) capturing a new data set containing a large variation of gestures and styles, and (3) a qualitative evaluation of the proposed approach by comparing it with other baselines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nikolaus F Troje

Student:

Partner:

Ubisoft Toronto

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Using CanCoast 2.0 to model and map coastscapes of Canada’s Arctic

Canada’s Arctic includes the world’s longest Arctic coastline, and is experiencing the direct effects of rapid climate change, including rapid erosion in some areas, changes to stream inflows and a warming ocean with less sea ice. A longer ice free season also means more shipping activity which can also threaten coastal species and the communities that rely on those species as a major food source. These changes have direct consequences for coastal Arctic species such as seals, whales, polar bears, coastal fish, as well as waterfowl and shorebirds. This project is Canada’s contribution to an international collaboration under the Arctic Council that aims to assess coastal ecosystems and provide assessments of the status and trends of coastal species around the circum-polar Arctic. The international group worked with Indigenous Knowledge and coastal science experts to develop an Arctic coastal monitoring plan, and the first step in plan implementation is the development of a map that shows the distributions of 7 types of coastscapes – segments of the Arctic coast with similar properties and so supports similar wildlife.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Langlois

Student:

Partner:

Arctic Research Foundation

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Architecture résiliente aux inondations : développement d’expertise et transfert de connaissances

Le projet génèrera des connaissances sur les mesures d’adaptation du cadre bâti aux inondations à l’échelle des bâtiments et des communautés. Ce projet comble un manque d’information sur les manières d’habiter et de planifier les zones inondables constructibles au Québec.
L’analyse de cas de défaillance de mesures de protection contre les inondations permettra le développement d’outils de communication destinés à sensibiliser les parties prenantes au risque potentiel. La modélisation de typologies architecturales adaptées à différents scénarios d’inondation contribuera aux réflexions entourant la conception de la résilience des
communautés aux inondation.
Les contributions des stagiaires s’inscrivent dans un des objectifs du programme de résilience diluvienne d’ASFQ : valoriser le rôle de l’architecture dans la protection du cadre bâti contre les impacts des changements climatiques. ASFQ utilisera les connaissances colligées et les modélisations réalisés par les stagiaires lors d’activités de communication grand public et de formation professionnelle sur l’adaptation du cadre bâti aux inondations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabelle Thomas

Student:

Partner:

Architecture Sans Frontières Québec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

An image-guided, highly tunable hydrogel delivery device for novel minimally invasive therapies

Minimally invasive treatments have greatly changed the clinical landscape for a variety of disorders. A catheter is navigated through the body to the target site where a multitude of interventions can be performed, including drug delivery and therapeutic embolization and in the near future delivery of tissue-engineered constructs. However, there are still limitations for treatment safety and efficacy due to the less direct control physicians have over the diseased site compared to traditional surgeries.
We have engineered a new type of catheter device capable of accurately delivering and monitoring hydrogels in various parts of the body. Hydrogels are a common material class considered safe to be used as a vehicle for various therapeutic agents but are difficult to optimally formulate. In this project we aim to perform design refinement and testing to prove our technology’s efficacy both in vitro and in vivo. This new technology represents a safer and more effective method of embolization, drug delivery and potential for minimally invasive tissue engineering approaches.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Victor Yang

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Hidden Champions Businesses II: A Survey of Recent Theory and Empirical Evidence

This investigation will examine real-world potential Canadian hidden champions through a survey to gain further insight into what characteristics enable hidden champions to thrive. This survey will also expose a need for a more thorough case study (titled “A case study on Hidden Champions in North America, Europe and Asia) to examine the nuances of regional hidden champions and how they express themselves differently around the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chansoo Park

Student:

Partner:

Husky Centre

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Invivo and insilico evaluation of multi organ variability for the detection of critical physiological changes of patients in Intensive Care Units

The project focuses on the characterization of the evolution with time of the properties of physiological signals recorded in different clinical settings, describing sepsis shock and other clinical complications that are common features in Intensive Care Units. Changes in heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation will be studied through an array of more than 70 techniques; some will consider the signals one-at-a-time, others will analyze the signals simutaneously. The final objective is characterizing the interrelationship between different techniques and their clinical relevance in the detection of changes in the physiological conditions of patients in the ICU. The long term goal is using the collect results to create predictors of those changes, promoting a shift from descriptive medicine, where the disease is cured only when its pathological effects are “visible” to physicians, to a predictive medicine, where the disease is detected before having deleterious effects on the patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

André Longtin

Student:

Partner:

Therapeutic Monitoring Systems Inc (Ottawa, ON)

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Conception et développement de grappins pour la récupération de casiers de pêche au crabe perdus sur le fond marin en utilisant la fabrication additive

Le projet consiste à concevoir des nouvelles formes de grappins pour récupérer les casiers à crabe des neiges dans le cadre de la pêche fantôme. Ce type de pêche permettra à des espèces marines tels que les baleines noires d’éviter tout empêtrement à cause des cordages. Ceci va permettre de réduire les conséquences de la pêche fantôme, et assurer une meilleure cohabitation entre les pêcheurs et les baleines. Comme ça, l’activité de pêche peut avoir lieu sans interruption même pendant les périodes où il y a un afflux important de baleines dans les eaux canadiennes, permettant la poursuite de l’activité de pêche. Les grappins conçus vont être optimisés pour réduire les couts d’investissement au niveau d’équipements de pêche. Ces grappins vont être développés, en utilisant la fabrication additive basée sur des matériaux plastiques et métalliques, pour la récupération de casiers de pêche au crabe dans le fond marin.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Noureddine Barka

Student:

Partner:

Merinov (Gaspé, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Program:

Accelerate

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