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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Globalink Research Internship (GRI) program

The laboratory has two new posting available through Mitacs Globalink Research Internship (GRI) program: Investigation of Control Algorithms for Maritime Systems Energy Storage for Marine Motion Compensation Systems Students from Australia, Brazil, China, France, India, Germany, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Ukraine will be able to view and... More

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Ryan McKenzie was awarded OGS and the NSERC scholarship

Congratulations to Ryan McKenzie on being awarded an OGS (declined) and the NSERC (accepted) scholarships for his MASc work. Ryan's research focuses marine crane systems and shifting from reactive control algorithms to proactive control strategies by applying predictive motion compensation methodology. The research also hopes to reduce the... More

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

CSME Acceptance

The lab has two publications in the Proceedings of The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2018, CSME 2018. Johanna Mcphee's paper, "On-line Determination of a Go-NoGo State Using a Continous Estimation of the System Response" and Cassidy Westin's paper, "Vortex-Induced Vibrations of a Low-tension Cable-Sheave... More

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

New Publication

The research group has a new publication in the Elsevier journal, Ocean Engineering. Research highlights: A simple hydraulic valve is used to perform active heave compensation. A proposed model predictive control algorithm is simulated & experimentally verified. The proposed control algorithm out performed a traditional controller. Model... More

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Site Visit

The research team visited Rolls-Royce Canada Limited in Peterborough Ontario to present and discuss the ongoing research projects. The team was also given a toured the facility where they develop and assemble various naval handling... More

Friday, October 20, 2017

Research Funding Announcement

Drs. Ahmadi (PI) and Irani (co-PI) were successful in securing a Joint NSERC CRD and OCE VIP-II application “Sensor-based precision robotics deburring for Aerospace manufacturing” with Arnprior Aerospace. The grant totals $750K over 4 years. The CRD portion will address some fundamental questions regarding the application of robotics to... More

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering

Nathan Schut presents at the IEEE International Symposium on Systems Engineering in Vienna,... More

Friday, September 1, 2017

New Researchers

Shadi Abujoub and Ryan McKenzie join the research group as MASc... More

Monday, August 21, 2017

Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics (CDSR’17)

Cassidy Westin attends 4th International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics (CDSR'17) in Toronto and receives an award for Best... More

Friday, July 14, 2017

National Instrument Research Grant

Dr. Irani along with his collaborators (Dr. Hayes and Langlois) were awarded the $50,000 from the National Instruments Research Grant Program to improve the command and control of... More

Monday, April 24, 2017

Johanna McPhee: NSERC

Johanna McPhee was awarded NSERC... More

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

NSERC Discovery Grant

Dr. Irani was award an NSERC Discovery Grant and the Early Career... More

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