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Développement d’un amortisseur de motoneige semi-actif ajustable à commande électromécanique

La nouvelle suspension des motoneiges Ski-Doo de l’entreprise Bombardier Produits Récréatifs
(BRP), le R-motion, présente un amortisseur passif dimensionné pour un type spécifique de motoneige.
L’objectif est maintenant de concevoir un amortisseur semi-actif couvrant la vaste plage de
fonctionnement de trois amortisseurs KYB présents sur les modèles de motoneiges GSX, MXZ X et
MXZ X-RS et, ainsi, de permettre à BRP d’avoir un seul amortisseur pour la suspension R-motion.
Les caractéristiques d’amortissement devront être modifiables au niveau du volant en fonction du type
de terrain et du mode de conduite choisi par le pilote. Le dynamomètre pour amortisseurs (“Dyno-Shock”)
est une machine hydraulique d’essais du centre de
technologies avancées (CTA) qui a permis de caractériser les trois amortisseurs. La plage d’opération
du nouvel amortisseur a ainsi pu être établie.
Une étude menée sur des technologies d’amortisseurs semi-actifs oriente, pour ce projet, les recherches
vers les technologies de valve proportionnelle.
Les résultats attendus concernent le contrôle en détente et en compression d’une….TBC

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alain Desrochers

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Produits Recreatifs

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Advancing Strong-Scaling CFD Simulations on Manycore HPC Hardware

Science and engineering companies rely on powerful computers to simulate, in virtual space, the performance of new processes and products. The computer architectures of these systems are evolving to provide even faster virtual solutions with less energy requirements. This hardware evolution impacts software design and implementation of simulation tools such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The intern’s project involves software design and implementation related to novel CPU/GPU parallel computers and the CFD software used by the partner organization. The CFD software is essential to product development activities requiring efficient use of powerful supercomputers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Gerber

Student:

Partner:

Envenio Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Hand Pose Reconstruction with Advanced Sensor And Deep Learning

This project explores 3D pose hand reconstruction using machine learning models with sensor data from innovative input devices. The goal is to propose an approach that provides real-time high fidelity hand reconstruction and understand how users perceive its quality to improve user experience and social interaction in AR/VR. The proposed methodology is to train a deep learning network that learns the mapping from sensor signals to hand pose joint locations. User studies will be performed to assess the quality of predicted hand motions. New evaluation metrics will be explored with respect to user perception ratings in different application scenarios. The training data will be collected using both the Tactual wearable device and motion capture devices. This project allows the Tactual to tailor and develop their Prism sensing technology for new products in AR/VR and prepare new sensing applications in valuable markets such as Automotive and Assisting Living.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrei Badescu;Fanny Chevalier;Arvind Gupta

Student:

Partner:

Tactual Labs Co

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Le trouble orofacial myofonctionnel

Le trouble orofacial myofontionel (TOM) réfère à l’ensemble des comportements oromusculaires inadaptés. Il s’agit d’un trouble moteur impliquant la musculature de la bouche et du visage, ce qui interfère avec une maturation normale des structures orofaciale. En orthophonie, les enfants référés pour un TOM présentent généralement une déglutition atypique et un problème d’articulation de la parole marqué par un sigmatisme antérieur et/ou latéral. La mise sur pied d’un protocole recourant à un outil d’imagerie clinique (échographe) aurait un fort potentiel d’amélioration quant à l’évaluation des progrès réalisés, à la réadaptation possible et à la qualité des services dispensés à cette clientèle. La stagiaire participera à la prise de mesures avec l’échographe et sera aussi en charge de l’analyse des données.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Franco Leporé;Lucie Ménard

Student:

Partner:

Clinique MultiSens

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’un exosquelette pour les travailleurs de la construction afin de réduire les efforts au tronc et aux épaules

Les blessures ou lésions au travail constituent la 2e cause la plus importante d’invalidité au monde. Afin d’aider les travailleurs dans leurs tâches et réduire l’exposition aux blessures, l’utilisation d’exosquelettes est une avenue prometteuse. Il existe déjà plusieurs exosquelettes d’assistance pour la production automobile et les industries manufacturières, mais ceux-ci ne sont pas adaptés aux travailleurs de la construction. Il devient donc nécessaire de développer un exosquelette spécifique aux travailleurs de la construction sachant que juste au Québec, plus de 138 000 salariés exerçant un métier de la construction pourraient bénéficier d’un tel exosquelette. L’objectif principal de la recherche proposée est donc de développer une preuve de concept d’exosquelette d’assistance du haut du corps pour l’industrie de la construction. Le partenaire Biolift pourrait ensuite commercialiser à l’international l’exosquelette issu de cette recherche.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maxime Raison;Sofiane Achiche

Student:

Partner:

Biolift

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

The design and implementation of a gamified eHealth movement and mindfulness solution for school-aged children

The online delivery of primary school curriculums may work well for subjects like math and science, but not so well for physical education. Now more than ever, it is crucial that we ensure that children continue to benefit from the countless positive mental and physical health outcomes associated with regular involvement in physical activity. To help keep children moving during this stressful time (i.e., COVID-19), Mitacs is partnering with X Movement to develop an ExerGame Smartphone App that children can use to compete in physical activity and mindfulness challenges against their school friends and family members. We will assess their weekly physical activity habits using FitBits. We are also going to examine if children who use our ExerGame see improvements to their mood and emotional control, resiliency, and life satisfaction. This partnership will help to validate X Movement physical activity and mindfulness programs, while also helping to ignite a child’s love for mindful-movement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sidney Kennedy

Student:

Partner:

X Movement

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Deposition modeling, generalized process planning, and Design for Additive Manufacturing for fabrication of large scale and radial components by robotic large-scale additive manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, uses computer-aided design to build objects layer by layer. AM enables complex designs with reduced component lead time, cost, material waste, energy usage and carbon footprint. Large scale robotic AM (> 1 m cubed) using wire arc welding is an emerging field offering scalability of AM to heavy industry. A particularly limiting factor for large-scale AM, however, is the need for support structures for overhanging features with current AM process planning and tool path planning methods. InnoTech Alberta and University of Alberta are interested in researching and developing new methods and processes for equipping their large scale AM system with multi-directional deposition capability that can eliminate the need for support structures , developing and using design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) to optimize and improve upon existing designs while considering the supportless fabrication process, and in the process eliminate the associated limitations of existing AM processes and improve them. This would allow development of a digital design and manufacturing tool chain allowing scaling up of metal AM for large parts suitable to Alberta’s industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ahmed Qureshi;Zengtao Chen

Student:

Partner:

InnoTech Alberta

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Innovation béton de chanvre pour l’optimisation de la formulation et de sa mise en place

Le projet Innovation béton de chanvre est un projet de recherche de 2e cycle élaboré par Maxime St-Pierre et Philippe Fortin. Le projet a pour but de développer le béton de chanvre afin de rendre celui-ci adapté à la construction au niveau commercial. Le projet est divisé en deux sous projets : la réduction du temps de séchage et l’amélioration des technologies de mise en place.
Le béton de chanvre est un béton naturel fait d’eau, de chaux et de chènevotte, issue de la plante de chanvre. Le chanvre est une ressource renouvelable, sa culture utilise peu d’eau, ne demande aucun pesticide, en plus de fixer 4 fois plus de CO2 que l’arboriculture sur une même superficie. Le béton de chanvre enveloppe la structure du bâtiment de manière à remplacer le système d’isolation tout en limitant les ponts thermiques. Il offre entre autres une excellente masse thermique qui se traduit par une économie énergétique qui peut atteindre 80%. Contrairement aux autres matériaux, le béton de chanvre reste “vivant” tout au long de son cycle de vie : sa résistance augmente avec le temps, en plus de favoriser naturellement une régulation de l’air ambiant. E

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Perraton;Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon

Student:

Partner:

DeuxMax;ISOFIB INC.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Wholesale trade

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

SOTI SNAP SDK For creating third-party widget

This project dedicates to leverage the use of SOTI snap app to a greater community by providing more flexibility for third-party users and reducing required prior programming knowledge. To do this, we will focus on building a Software Development Kit (SDK) so that third parties can create and publish new widgets allowing SNAP apps to be quickly created that support a wide range of business needs. Human-Computer Interaction and Software architecture principles will be employed to make the SDK more user-friendly. Early stages will be focused on user studies and architecture design and later stage will be focused on the scalable and extendable implementation of the backend part to make it enough fault-tolerant and flexible enough to communicate to third-party resources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

Student:

Partner:

SOTI Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Does cannabidiol mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and potential therapies for COVID-19?

Patients most vulnerable to COVID-19 have pre-existing illnesses, including diabetes and heart disease. Two potential treatments in clinical trials for COVID-19 are the anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine, and the antibiotic, azithromycin. These drugs can cause side-effects, including cardiac arrhythmias which can lead to heart failure, that make them inappropriate for the most vulnerable COVID-19 patients. Cardiac arrhythmias also are a major cause of death in diabetic patients. We discovered that cannabidiol (commonly known as CBD), the main non-psychoactive chemical in Cannabis, restores normal function in cells previously exposed to high glucose, as in diabetic patients. Recovery of normal function means cannabidiol might prevent cardiac arrhythmias associated with diabetes.If cannabidiol prevents cardiac arrhythmias in diabetes, then cannabidiol may prevent arrhythmias in COVID-19 patients treated with antimalarial and antibiotic drugs. We will test whether cannabidiol guards against these side-effects and be used alongside drugs to safely treat patients most vulnerable to COVID-19. Until a vaccine for the novel coronavirus is developed, expected to take 12-18 months, drug therapies are required to treat those who develop COVID-19. Meanwhile, cannabidiol may be one key to improving the safety of treating COVID-19 with anti-malarial/antibiotic drug combinations by preventing cardiac arrhythmias in the most vulnerable patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Ruben

Student:

Partner:

Akseera Pharma Corp

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

LiI’wat Nation Assessment of On-Reserve Agriculture

The Lil’wat Nation has been situated in its location since time immemorial at which it has also been
asserting its inherent right to govern within its traditional territory. The Nation’s current 5-year
Strategic Plan (2010 – 2015) calls for an objective to “Increase the production value of on-reserve
agriculture”. With this stated goal, the Nation recognized an opportunity to participate to a greater
extent in this industry as private, surrounding farmland is fully utilized for both livestock and crop
agriculture in the region. Therefore, it is the desire from Nation decision-makers to investigate how
production value may be substantially increased from the 1,000 acres of land suitable for agricultural
use. This research will provide these decision-makers and other stakeholders (Le. Land Management
Board, the Stockmen’s Association) with information to support infrastructure investments (I.e. flood
mitigation measures) and eventual revenue streams to support e’conomic development goals of the
Nation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Tansey

Student:

Partner:

Lil'wat Management Services LP

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Development of COVID-19 Automated UV Object Disinfection Cabinet

Highly infectious COVID-19 has had widespread effects on Canadian and global health, security, and economy. While vaccines play a key role in preventing viral diseases, various measures should be taken to slow their spread. Among preventative measures, disinfection systems are of paramount importance to battle COVID-19. The objective of this project is to design and build an automated confined cabinet for object disinfection using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation.This smart cabinet would be able to detect objects, measure their sizes and adjust UV rate accordingly in a short time to make it a good candidate for major online retailers distributing hundreds of thousands of items daily.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahpour Alirezaee;Mohammed Jalal Ahamed

Student:

Partner:

Level One Robotics and Controls Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.