Research Projects

Robotics

  • New approaches to intelligent navigation of surface and underwater robotic systems
  • Intelligent navigation, communication and cooperation of multi-robot systems
  • Intelligent mobile manipulation robotic system for greenhouse vegetable harvesting
  • Intelligent sensing, navigation and teleoperation of mobile robotic systems
  • Prototype of a network-enabled intelligent autonomous mobile robot for industrial applications
  • Internet based network communication and teleoperation of robotic systems
  • Human-robot interaction through natural language understanding and  virtual reality
  • Robot vision and image/signal processing in robotic systems
  • Prototype of behaviours-based mobile robots for industrial applications
  • Real-time map building/updating, path planning, tracking and control of mobile robots in dynamic environments
  • Real-time motion control of robotic systems with unknown robot dynamics
  • Real-time multi-sensor fusion and reactive navigation of mobile robotic systems

Intelligent Systems

  • e-safety: A framework for management of organizational safety using autonomous mobile robots in a self-configurable wWireless sensor network
  • Remote monitoring and analyzing pork farm odour using wireless sensors and an odour dispersion models
  • Prototype of robotic electronic noses for odours and integrated modeling of odour emissions in pork production systems
  • Modeling and analysis of risk factors for enteric pathogen infection 
  • Neural network model of temperature impact on West Nile activities 
  • Microbial food safety – integrated modeling techniques for “farm to fork” risk assessment
  • Modeling and analysis of supercritical fluid extraction of bioactive components from biomaterials
  • Sensory motor control of wing beat in insects such as a locust and a fly
  • Sensory perception and visual motion information processing in vertebrate retina

Acknowledgement: Our research projects are funded by

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  • Health Canada
  • Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
  • Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA)
  • Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)
  • Ontario Pork
  • University of Guelph
  • And several industrial partners