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Fall 2019
Autonomous navigation has been a popular research topic over the last two decades. The ability for a robot to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem is required to navigate unknown environments. One such example is a self-driving car: it needs to build maps of new...
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A Techno-Economic and Life-cycle Assessment of the Production of Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass
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The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions footprint of Alberta’s oil sands industry is one of the industry’s most arduous environmental challenges. Alberta’s oil sands industry uses chemicals such as diluent to reduce the viscosity of bitumen to ease its transportation through pipelines. The oil sands...
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Advances on Fabrication and Application of Through Silicon Via for Radio Frequency Circuits
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Through silicon via (TSV) has been considered as an astonishing milestone in the evolution of three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC), because of its exclusive and pivotal function of providing signal exchanging paths in the horizontal direction to stacked layers efficiently. Unfortunately,...
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An integrated framework to handle design, complexity, and controls challenges in industrial systems
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During the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in automation. Mechanical processes and operations are continuously being automated. Mechanical assemblies are no longer only mechanical, but also contain a large portion of electrical wires, connections, and controls signals....
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An Intelligent Framework for Automatic Maintenance Plan Generation based-on Product Features Recognition
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Maintenance takes care of the health of equipment and/or mechanical system. Currently, maintenance is considered as one of the most labor-intensive and expert-centered manufacturing process, since disassembly/assembly procedures and its level of difficulty, makes it very difficult to automate the...
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Assessing Colloidal Stability of Pharmaceutical Suspensions with a Shadowgraphic Imaging Method
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The colloidal stability of pharmaceutical suspensions is an important attribute that needs to be carefully characterized in order to ensure designed product quality. In the field of respiratory drug delivery, pharmaceutical suspensions contained in pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs) are...
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Assessment of energy efficiency improvement opportunities and the long-term potential for greenhouse gas mitigation in industrial sector
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Concerns about climate change have resulted in a global agreement on the need for collective actions to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In Canada, the 9th largest global GHG emitter, the industrial sector is a major source of GHG emissions, accounting for 37% of the national...
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Assessment of energy efficiency improvement opportunities and the long-term potential for greenhouse gas mitigation in industrial sector
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Concerns about climate change have resulted in a global agreement on the need for collective actions to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In Canada, the 9th largest global GHG emitter, the industrial sector is a major source of GHG emissions, accounting for 37% of the national...
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Assessment of Environmental and Economic Footprints of Algae Production Systems for Colder Climate
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Many open pond raceway (OPR) production systems for algae cultivation continue to be developed for moderate and hot climates (e.g., the USA, Europe and Australia). However, there has been very limited research on economic and environmental evaluations to assess whether these systems can be...
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Assessment of greenhouse gas reduction options for the iron, gold, and potash mining sectors
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Canada has one of the world’s highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per capita among developed countries and was the 10th largest global GHG emitter in 2017. Consistent with the Paris Agreement’s goal of controlling the temperature increase by 2°C to 1.5°C, Canada aims to reduce GHG emissions by...