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Development of a precise and robust INS/GPS navigation system using low cost MEMS sensors dedicated to autonomous multirotor applications

ARA Robotique is a company specialized in the development of a state-of-art flight controller for light multirotor UAV. One of the critical subsystems of a flight controller is its navigation system which measures the position and the orientation of the vehicle which is then used to ensure the flight stability and to operate the UAV. To complete its flight controller design, ARA Robotique is interested in developing a robust and accurate Inertial Navigation System (INS) based on low cost Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology. The disadvantage with low cost inertial sensors is that their measurements are affected by deterministic errors and stochastic noise that causes the INS solution to diverge rapidly. The goal of the project is to design an aiding system based on the Extended Kalman filter to combine the INS with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signal to ensure convergence and elimination of the measurement noise.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ouassima Akhrif

Student:

Partner:

ARA Robotique

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace; Technology; Other

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Développement de détergents ou mélanges de tensioactifs/surfactants biodégradables à base d’alkyles polyglucosides

Dans les dernières années plusieurs déversements de produits pétroliers ont conduit à la contamination d’un grand nombre de terrains au Canada. Actuellement, les bio-surfactants sont utilisés dans plusieurs techniques de réhabilitation de sol grâce à leur faible toxicité et leur biodégradabilité. Les bio-surfactants sont des surfactants produits par une diversité de micro-organismes afin de solubiliser puis fixer (micelle) des substrats hydrophobes. Les Alkyl poly glucosides (APGs) sont des surfactants synthétisés à partir de produits naturels qui en combinaison avec d’autres surfactants peuvent diminuer la tension superficielle de l’eau de 72 à 0,01mN/m ou moins, en fonction du type de surfactant utilisé. Le projet ci-présent vise la formulation d’un surfactant à base d’APGs et de surfactants biodégradables d’alcools linéaires éthoxylés permettant la solubilisation de produits pétroliers tels que l’essence, le diesel et le mazout. Le développement de ce produit permettra d’étudier les interactions synergiques entre l’APGs et les alcools linéaires éthoxylés, et d’améliorer l’efficacité des techniques de réhabilitation utilisées par Enutech.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alfred Jaouich

Student:

Partner:

Enutech

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Mental Health: Strategies for Resilience

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training is a 12 hour course that was developed in 2001 for health care workers to better support clinical patients in mental health crisis. Evaluations of the training indicate that individuals who take this training improve knowledge of mental health disorders (e.g., psychotic disorders) and are better able to provide triaged mental health care. However, the program has limited use as it was developed for health care providers and focuses on extreme events of crisis. This post doctoral fellowship will revamp the MHFA based on current resilience research for university students on university campuses and offer the course through the Canadian Mental Health Association. The new focus will shift the emphasis of mental health training modules from a recovery model that is reactive and an approach that is didactic to a resilience model that is proactive and an approach that promotes interactive learning.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Hutchinson

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association (Halifax Dartmouth)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Education; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Elevate

Efficiency Analysis of UV-Initiated AOP using Computational Modeling

Advanced Oxidation processes are exploited for treating micropollutants in drinking water.Conventional UV-H2O2 based AOPs generate hydroxyl radicals that can directly attack and degrades the most persistent pollutants even at very low concentration.However, these processes are energy intensive and kinetically inefficient as the amount of UV energy used to generate hydroxyl radicals is minimal. To make UV-based processes commercially successful, their energy consumption must be minimized and reactor performance optimized. In this study, we will compare the process efficiency of four different UV-initiated AOPs(three hypothetical ones, e.g. batch, CSTR and plug flow reactors, and a commercially-viable one made available by Trojan technologies) under different operating conditions. The processes modeling will be carried out by modeling of the radiation, hydrodynamic and chemical reactions. Moreover the patented I-jet reactor will be used for the experimental study. The results could be used to optimize the water treatment plant designs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ajay Ray

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Our Home and Native Resources: Community planning and sustainable development to build prosperity in Wasagamack and Garden Hill First Nations

This Indigenous participatory research will work with community members from Garden Hill and Wasagamack First Nations to plan community development and work towards achieving sustainable livelihoods in their traditional territories. Research will consider traditional land use and occupancy, and how branding, community development, capacity-building and social enterprise development can lead to self-sustenance and prosperity. Future plans and enterprises must ensure a good life for these First Nation communities and consider opportunities for the youth, and women. This capacity-building will assist community members to engage with the Wabanong Nakaygum Okimawin (WNO) (Ojibway words meaning: “East Side of the Lake Governance”), East Side of Lake Winnipeg Large Area Transportation Network Study and other economic and human development activities which are directly related to traditional land use. Some enterprises identified by the communities thus far are healing centres, woodlots, alternative energy, farms and food markets, fishery co-operatives, tourism, and hunting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shirley Thompson

Student:

Partner:

AKI Energy Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Elevate

Predictive Models for the Manitoba Bio-Economy Atlas

The intern will develop a multi-year model of a biomass supply chain for Manitoba, which will comprise the back end for a web based Bio-Economy Atlas tool. The tool will create feasibility level assessments of the volume, consistency, variability, accessibility and logistics costs of the biofuel resource in Manitoba, including both conventional sources, such as agricultural residue, and unconventional sources, such as riparian biomass and cattails. The focus on cattails will allow for an assessment of the potential benefits of removing phosphorous, which is negatively impacting the health of the Lake Winnipeg ecosystem, through the harvesting of cattails. The intern will focus on the uncertainty inherent in the model and apply forecasting, simulation and stochastic modeling and optimization to quantify the variability associated with plans and estimates of costs and environmental impacts of the biomass harvest and supply chain.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Attahiru Alfa

Student:

Partner:

International Institute for Sustainable Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Elevate

Design and Control of a Reconfigurable Packaging System

DCZS Intelligent Systems Inc. focuses on providing solutions for industrial automation as well as on facilitating the need of research facilitates and universities. DCZS is currently developing a Box Packaging Automation System (BPAS), targeting the growing needs in packaging/assembling processes in industry. Currently, BPAS is designed based on certain box packaging style and limited size range, and is not versatile for packing boxes with different creasing pattern. To meet seasonal demand from different end customers, a rapid change of the folding tools is required. Therefore, the design and control of a reconfigurable packaging system is proposed. This project concerns the development a reconfigurable packaging line as well as its adaptive control scheme to overcome the aforementioned challenging. As such, it is expected to result in both a technological advancement for enhancing DCZS’s R&D capability as well as an increase of their competitiveness in the global marketplace.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chris Zhang

Student:

Partner:

DCZS Intelligent Systems Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Elevate

Understanding UV Dose Distribution and Reactor Performance Using Bioassay Data

Ultraviolet disinfection has been widely applied for drinking water and wastewater treatments because of its effective inactivation of many waterborne pathogens and its minimal formation of disinfection by-products. The most implemented method for validation is biodosimetry, which involves bioassay to yield a simplified UV dose value. This dose value is called reduction equivalent dose. However, RED depends on not only the performance of the reactor but also the UV sensitivity of the type of microorganisms used in the test. Therefore, the RED for representing the performance of the reactor is actually the measured RED multiplied by a safety factor, which makes the reactor to be operated with higher energy. This research proposes a method using multiple types of testing microorganisms to reduce the safety factor and also develop a strategy about how to properly and efficiently select different types of testing microorganisms to better understand performances of UV disinfection systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

TBD;Ajay Ray

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Stochastic Strategies for Addressable Advertising – Year Two

Recently, the nature of media advertising has changed dramatically due to the introduction of highly efficient addressable advertising models. The latter have the ability to deliver different ads during one advertising spot to the viewers of same network, depending on household demographic profiles. The new models provide industry with the opportunity to maximize advertising revenue and profitability and in return allow for more broad accessibility of advanced technologies. Essential to these techniques is the estimation of a capability to fulfill advertising orders within the new bandwidth constraints of the system. One particular problem for delivering multiple advertisements is the allocation of resources to different networks and the prediction of collisions between commercial breaks throughout the set of networks. The objective of this proposal is to construct optimal stochastic, statistical/probabilistic models for ad break interleaving and the correlations between ad breaks, TV viewing, TV programs, viewer demographics, and other aspects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ivan Mizera

Student:

Partner:

Invidi Technologies Corporation

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

Stochastic Strategies for Addressable Advertising

Recently, the nature of media advertising has changed dramatically due to the introduction of highly efficient addressable advertising models. The latter have the ability to deliver different ads during one advertising spot to the viewers of same network, depending on household demographic profiles. The new models provide industry with the opportunity to maximize advertising revenue and profitability and in return allow for more broad accessibility of advanced technologies. Essential to these techniques is the estimation of a capability to fulfill advertising orders within the new bandwidth constraints of the system. One particular problem for delivering multiple advertisements is the allocation of resources to different networks and the prediction of collisions between commercial breaks throughout the set of networks. The objective of this proposal is to construct optimal stochastic, statistical/probabilistic models for ad break interleaving and the correlations between ad breaks, TV viewing, TV programs, viewer demographics, and other aspects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ivan Mizera

Student:

Partner:

Invidi Technologies Corporation

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

The study of action mechanism of indoles in Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer

The indole subunit is a near-ubiquitous component of biologically active natural has become an important building block or intermediate in the synthesis of many pharmaceutical agents. Such as indole-3-carbinol, found in cruciferous vegetables has been shown to inhibit carcinogenesis. In this project I will focus on studying of action mechanism (cell apoptosis, angiogenesis inhibition and inhibiting microtubule formation) of indoles in breast cancer and prostate cancer. Establishment of models for the screening of indoles resources for resistance to breast and prostate cancer. A growth inhibition studies will be carry out by cell proliferation. Related hormonal status during growth inhibition test by Elisa kit.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sheng-Xiang Lin

Student:

Partner:

QingDao University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

wearable electric field sensor

The project focuses on the design and development of a wearable electric field sensor. Mathematical simulation, mechanical design, optical system built-up and signal processing will be involved. The project will be conducted in the Laboratory of Ultra High Precision Mechatronics at Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing. The student will need to analyze and simulate the relation between electric field and surface wave using different materials. In the second phase, the student will design the sensor structure and develop the system. The static and dynamic characteristics of the sensor also need to be analyzed and measured. Finally, the supervisor will guide the student to complete a report and some other documentation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zuomin Dong

Student:

Partner:

Beihang University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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