• Prediction and minimization of excessive distortions and residual stresses in compliant assembled structures 

  Yoshizato, Anderson (2020-05-26)

  The procedure of joining flexible or nonrigid parts using applied loads is called compliant assembly, and it is widely used in automotive, aerospace, electronics, and appliance manufacturing. Uncontrolled assembly processes ...
• Design and application of a water powered irrigation robot 

  Fairfield, Kurt (2020-05-06)

  This paper reports the findings of conceptual design and application research for a novel use of irrigation fluid power to provide mobility to a legged autonomous, tethered irrigation robot. Systems already exist to convert ...
• Modelling, design and energy management of a hybrid electric ship – a case study 

  Zhu, Haijia (2020-05-05)

  The widely-used passenger and car ferries, sailing regularly and carrying heavy loads, form a unique type of marine vessel, providing vital transportation links to the coastal regions. Modern ferry ships usually are ...
• Design and analysis of fiber-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometers for highly sensitive refractive index measurement 

  Ahsani, Vahid (2020-05-05)

  The development of reliable, affordable, and efficient sensors is a key step forward in providing tools for efficient monitoring of critical environmental parameters. Fiber-optic sensors are already widely used in various ...
• Synthesis and characterization of Fe-doped TiO2 on fiberglass cloth for the wastewater treatment reactor 

  Ahmed, Faysal (2020-05-04)

  The photocatalytic wastewater treatment facility presented in this thesis is a promising economic green technology that can degrade wastewater’s organic and ammonia pollutants, which produce environmentally sensitive ...
• Application of LQR and H2-optimal control for a quadrotor system 

  Ma, Chen (2020-05-04)

  A quadrotor is a type of small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with four rotors. Various control techniques have been successfully applied to the quadrotor. In this thesis, two control methods, including linear quadratic ...
• Embedded system design and joint motion control of a quadruped robot 

  Ma, Chonghan (2020-04-29)

  In recent decades, mobile robotics have become one of the fastest growing research fields. Compared with wheeled and tracked robots, legged robots can step over obstacles and traverse unstructured terrains. This thesis ...
• An oceanographic pressure sensor based on an in-fibre Bragg grating 

  Bostock, Riccardo (2020-04-27)

  Deep-ocean pressure measurements are a necessary component for ocean characterization and oceanographic monitoring. Some principle applications such as tsunami detection and ocean floor subsidence are reliant on deep-ocean ...
• Distributed model predictive control based consensus of general linear multi-agent systems with input constraints 

  Li, Zhuo (2020-04-16)

  In the study of multi-agent systems (MASs), cooperative control is one of the most fundamental issues. As it covers a broad spectrum of applications in many industrial areas, there is a desire to design cooperative control ...
• How do we power decarbonization? Land and other resources in Canada’s West 

  Palmer-Wilson, Kevin Gordon (2020-03-27)

  Mitigating climate change requires elimination of fossil fuel related greenhouse gas emissions. Transitioning electricity generation to low-carbon sources and substituting fossil fuels with electricity in non-electric ...
• Biofilm sensing tool development for environmental monitoring 

  Jalilian, Farhad (2020-02-12)

  In recent years, the treatment of stormwater and surface runoffs using innovatively created natural sites has gained increasing attention. These sites, that are vegetated multi-layered depressions on the ground, named as ...
• E-bike impacts: quantifying the energy use and lifecycle emissions in response to real world driving conditions 

  Clancy, Daniel (2020-02-04)

  E-bikes can significantly enhance adoption of cycling as an urban transportation mode and have the advantage of low space requirements, very small operational GHG emissions, and a negligible contribution to infrastructure ...
• Modeling, simulation, hardware development, and testing of a lab-scale airborne wind energy system 

  Klein-Miloslavich, Andreas (2020-01-24)

  Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWES) harness the power of high-altitude winds using tethered planes or kites. Continuous and reliable operation requires that AWES become autonomous devices, but the wind intermittency forces ...
• Engineered infected epidermis model for in vitro study of the skin proinflammatory response 

  Jahanshahi, Maryam (2020-01-24)

  Wound infection is a major clinical burden that can significantly impede the healing process and cause severe pain. Prolonged wound infection can lead to long-term hospitalization or death. Pre-clinical research to evaluate ...
• Evaluation of hybrid-electric propulsion systems for unmanned aerial vehicles 

  Matlock, Jay Michael Todd (2020-01-14)

  The future of aviation technology is transitioning to cleaner, more efficient and higher endurance aircraft solutions. As fully electric propulsion systems still fall short of the operational requirements of modern day ...
• Decarbonization pathways for the western Canadian electricity system 

  English, Jeffrey (2020-01-14)

  Decarbonizing the electricity system (i.e. eliminating generation from fossil fuels and replacing it with non-emitting sources) is widely considered a necessary step to limiting anthropogenic emissions and minimizing the ...
• An examination of heavy-duty trucks drivetrain options to reduce GHG emissions in British Columbia 

  Lajevardi, S. Mojtaba (2020-01-03)

  Heavy-duty trucks (HDTs) are vital in delivering products to the consumers around the world and help maintain the quality of life. However, they are heavily depending on fossil diesel use, which causing global climate ...
• Novel techniques for engineering neural tissue using human induced pluripotent stem cells 

  De la Vega Reyes, Laura (2019-12-24)

  Tissue engineering (TE) uses a combination of biomaterial scaffolds, cells, and drug delivery systems (DDS) to create tissues that resemble the human physiology. Such engineered tissues could be used to treat, repair, ...
• Manufacturing techniques using femtosecond lasers in transparent materials 

  Cho, Yonghyun (2019-12-20)

  Femtosecond laser direct writing in transparent materials such as glass and optical fibers has been used as a versatile tool in order to fabricate various 3-D photonic structures such as active and passive waveguides, ...
• Image-based visual servoing of a quadrotor using model predictive control 

  Sheng, Huaiyuan (2019-12-19)

  With numerous distinct advantages, quadrotors have found a wide range of applications, such as structural inspection, traffic control, search and rescue, agricultural surveillance, etc. To better serve applications in ...

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