Friday, September 6, 2024

Newest team members

We're happy to welcome our newest team members: Rakhshanda Huda, will be working on her MASc with our motion compensation system. Her research will examine the dynamic coupling between the host vessel and the crane. Rakhshanda joins us from Liverpool John Moores University. Carlos Prata Ramos, Benjamin Zuniga-Rodriguez and Brianna Hines are... More

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

New Students!

We welcome 4 new MASc students this year! Cornelius Liburd and Eric Giroux will be working on flight system in the lab. Specifically, Cornelius is developing the drone hardware and capture system for Gesundheit. While Eric will be responsible for the flight controller as he also looks for further improve our autonomous landing systems.... More

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Whale Achoo and Gesundheit 

Over the past year a group of six volunteer undergraduate student have been working with our lab to design and build a whale blow simulator named WhaleAchoo. Their work helped MDL secure funding from the Kenneth M Molson Foundation do develop an autonomous drone. This drone, named the drone Gesundheit, will collect the biological... More

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Congrats!

Two big congrats are in order for Steffan Llyod and Wade MacMillan! In October Steffan's paper: Application of Pseudo-Symbolic Dynamic Modeling (PSDM) in the Modeling & Calibration of a 6-DOF Articulated Robot won BEST STUDENT PAPER. The paper was presented at the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) and International Federation of... More

Friday, February 25, 2022

2022 Update

We are only a 2 months into 2022 but it has been a while since we posted an update. So far 2022 has been a productive and busy time and have already published three new papers: Martin I. A., Irani R. A. (2022) Self-Tuning Anti-Sway Control For Shipboard Cranes Providing Combined World and Deck-Frame... More

Monday, August 23, 2021

Summer Update: Publications, Congratulations and New Students

It's been a busy summer and we haven't had a chance to update our news feed as regularly as we normally do. So here are just a few of the highlights: Publications Grael Miller has two new publications in the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology: Miller G., Irani R. A., Ahmadi M. (2021) Application... More

Friday, July 2, 2021

Stephanie Lowell – MASc

Congratulations to Stephanie Lowell for successfully defending her MASc thesis. Stephanie's thesis "Sensitivity analysis and experimental validation of plunger-type wavemakers modelled with a steady flow" will be posted online in the... More

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Cable-Sheave Modelling Publication

Cassidy Westin's "Modelling Dynamic Cable-Sheave Contact and Detachment During Towing Operations" has just been published in Elsevier's journal: Marine Structures.   Abstract:  Cable–sheave systems are commonly used on marine vessels for lifting and towing applications. As a result of the motion of the vessel, the cable can detach from the... More

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Grael Miller MASc

Congratulations to Grael Miller! Grael successfully defended his MASc titled, "Pilot Study for Cutting Force Model of Robotic Deburring" and a copy thesis will be posted online in the... More

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

New Publication: Dynamic modeling and a self-tuning anti-sway control system

We have a new publication on dynamic modeling and a self-tuning anti-sway control system in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing: Martin I. A., Irani R. A. (2021) Dynamic Modeling and Self-Tuning Anti-Sway Control of a Seven Degree of Freedom Shipboard Knuckle Boom Crane. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, v. 153, 107441... More

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

New Publication in Aerospace Science and Technology

We have a new publication in Aerospace Science and Technology: Abujoub S., McPhee J., Irani R. A. (2020) Methodologies for Landing Autonomous Aerial Vehicles on Maritime Vessels. Aerospace Science and Technology, Volume 106, 106169, doi:10.1016/j.ast.2020.106169   Abstract: One of the key challenges to the safe operation of UAVs at sea is... More

Sunday, August 16, 2020

New Publication in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing

We have a new publication in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing: Martin I. A., Irani R. A. (2020) A Generalized Approach to Anti-Sway Control for Shipboard Cranes. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, v. 148 107168, doi: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2020.107168   Abstract: Payload sway for shipboard cranes represents a significant safety... More

Monday, June 22, 2020

Stephanie Lowell – Mitacs Award

We are very proud that Stephanie Lowell has just received a Mitacs Research Training Award (RTA) -- Congratulations! The Mitacs award will allow Stephanie to study the design and parameter influence of our new wavemaker system that we have installed on our laboratory flume tank. Stephanie's work builds upon our previous research involving... More

Friday, May 8, 2020

New Publication – IEEE Access

We have a new publication: Lloyd S., Irani R. A. and Ahmadi M., (2020) Neural Network Quadrature for Fast Numerical Integration and Optimization in IEEE Access. The paper is available through an Early Access release on IEEE Xplore. Abstract: We present a novel numerical integration technique, Neural Network Integration, or NNI, where shallow... More

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Cassidy Westin: OGS

Congratulations to Cassidy Westin for receiving an OGS award for his PhD! The research will focus on the development of an algorithm which could be implemented to predict instances of slack cable or detachment during marine towing operations. The algorithm will comprise a real-time “digital twin” of the cable system which will receive sensor... More

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Ryan McKenzie MASc

Ryan McKenzie successfully defended his MASc titled, "Motion Compensation and Robotic Control of Maritime Cranes". His thesis in now available online.... More

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Shadi Abujoub MASc

Shadi Abujoub successfully defended his MASc titled, "Development of a Landing Period Indicator and the use of Signal Prediction to Improve Landing Methodologies of Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Maritime Vessels". His thesis is available online.... More

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Mikayla Micomonaco MASc

Mikayla Micomonaco successfully defended her MASc titled, "Large Angle Washout Algorithmsfor Flight Simulators". The thesis is available online.... More

Friday, August 23, 2019

Johanna McPhee MASc

Johanna McPhee successfully defended her MASc titled, "Control, Simulation, and Testbed Development for Improving Maritime Launch and Recovery Operations". The thesis is available online. Johanna is now working full-time DEW Engineering and Development in... More

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Camilla Jastrzebski: our newest member

We would like to welcome Camilla Jastrzebski who is an NSERC USRA scholar. She will be working in the lab to help develop the hardware systems of our Uninhabited Autonomous Vehicle (UAV). The UAV system will test the new landing algorithms for maritime applications. Additionally, Camilla will be assisting with the measurement and development... More

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

IEEE Oceanic Engineering Publication

We have a new publication: Calnan C., Bauer R.,  Irani R. A., (2018) Reference-Point Algorithms for Active Motion Compensation of Towed Bodies. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (In Press). It is available from the "Early Access" area on IEEEXplore. See our other publications here.... More

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

OCEANS 2018 Charleston

We excited to share that our research paper, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Landing on Maritime Vessels using Signal Prediction of the Ship Motion, has been accepted for a technical presentation at the OCEANS 2018 Charleston Conference October 22 – 25, 2018! Following the conference, our research will also be published alongside some of the best-known... More

Monday, September 10, 2018

New Researchers

Iain Martin and Stephanie Lowell join the research group as MASc students in the marine theme. While Maryam Al labbad and Lohay Al-Bess join the group in the flight theme.  ... More

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Congratulations

Cassidy Westin successfully defended his MASc is now starting his PhD. A copy of his MASc thesis will be available online... More

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

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