Schedule

Attendees registration

Pre-recorded presentations of each HQPs that were not able to attend the conference will run continuously on a monitor near the poster board area.

Welcome Presenters: Margaret McKay, Program Leader, AI for Logistics, NRC Bruno-Pier Darsigny, Organizer, Project Manager, NRC Digital Technologies

Presenter: Joel David Martin, Chief Digital Research Officer, National Research Council of Canada

Presenters: Terry Stewart from NRC (on behalf of Kathryn Simone from University of Waterloo) Submission titles: Biologically-inspired neural representations improve reliability in reinforcement learning

Presenter: Michael Furlong from University of Waterloo Submission title: Novelty Detection, Insect Olfaction, Mismatch Negativity, and the Representation of Probability in the Brain

Presenters: (1) Ravindu Thalagala from Memorial University of Newfoundland (2) Kusal Tennakoon from Memorial University of Newfoundland (3) Salaheldin Bilila from Memorial University of Newfoundland Submission titles: (1) Aerial Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Autonomous Navigation and Mapping Algorithm Development (2) AI powered visual loop closure and place recognition system for VLOAM (3) Improving Feature Tracking using Semantic Segmentation and Object Detection

Coffee, Refreshments and snacks will be served.

Presenters: (1) Nirasha Herath from Memorial University of Newfoundland (2) Thakshila Thilakanayake from Memorial University of Newfoundland Submission titles: (1) AI Based Method for Landing Zone Detection (2) AI based method for Lidar Assisted Radar Super Resolution and Segmentation

Presenters: 5 min opening speech by Jason Michel Lambert from NRC (1) Michael Farquharson from McGill University (2) Siamak Arbatani from McGill University (3) Chantal Hutchison from McGill University Submission titles: (1) Contact Simulation and Control of a Quadrotor Drone using a 3-DOF Haptic Device (2) Interactions between systems with different operating frequencies (3) Time delay and stability in haptics for remote robotic operations

Presenters: (1) Jeremy Bittick from Ryerson University (2) Shayan Sepahvand from Ryerson University (3) Niloufar Amiri from Ryerson University (4) Amir Jalali from Ryerson University (5) Sina Sajjadi from Ryerson University Submission titles: (1) Cost-effective UAV-based LTE Signal Surveying and Path Optimization (2) Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Coupled Aerial Manipulation Systems: Dynamics, Design, and Simulation Analysis (3) Dynamic Behavior of an Aerial Manipulation System: Coupling the UAV and Robotic Arm (4) Control-Oriented Dynamic Modelling of Aerial Continuum Manipulation Systems (5) Robust and Adaptive Control Strategies for Aerial Manipulation under Uncertain Conditions: A Novel Hybrid Approach

Lunch will be served to all registered poeple. Optional talk: An overview of the National Research Council of Canada’s Digital Technologies Research Centre and its research activities, Louis Borgeat, Director of Research & Development, Digital Technologies Research Centre, National Research Council of Canada , 12:15 to 12:45

Presenters: (2) Fardad Dadboud from University of Ottawa (3) Hamid Azad from University of Ottawa Submission titles: (2) Domain Shift through Aerial-View Object Detection in Vision Data (3) Deep learning-based drone localization using 2D image

Presenters: (1) Dariush Amirkhani from Québec University (2) Loucif Hebbache from Québec University (3) Nadir Hammouche from Québec University (4) Sakineh Abdollahzadeh from Québec University (5) Pier-Luc Proulx from Québec University Submission titles: (1) Bridge defect detection using Inspection vehicles in real-time: Challenges and Solutions (2) Intelligent Real-Time AI-based Inspection of Concrete Bridge Defects (3) Segmentation des défauts dans l’inspection de ponts en béton par drone (4) Safe Landing Zones Detection for UAV Imagery (5) User interface for safe landing zones (SLZ) detection in UAVs environments

Coffee, Refreshments and snacks will be served.

Presenter: (1) Fuzheng Sun from Queen's University (2) Heshan Fernando from Queen's University Submission Title: (1) The Use of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing for Long-term Monitoring of Railway Thermal Response (2) Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Mobile Robot for Automatically Installing Fibre Optic Sensors on Rail Tracks

Presenters: (1) Prof. Hassan Baaj from University of Waterloo (On behalf of Pejoohan Tavassoti) (2) Matea Ceric from University of Waterloo (3) Abimbola Grace Oyeyi from University of Waterloo Submission titles: (1) Application of Machine Learning for Pavement Performance Prediction (2) Instrumentation and field construction for a smart flexible pavement (3) Towards the development of pavement structural health monitoring systems with AI

Presenters: (1) Yunyan Huang from University of Alberta (2) Silas Henrique Barbosa De Carvalho Linares from University of Alberta Submission titles: (1) Application of Machine Learning for Real-Time Pavement Conditions Monitoring of a Test Road in Alberta (2) The Use of Sensing Technology for Pavement Performance Monitoring

Presenters: (1) Hanifeh Imanian from University of Ottawa (2) Vahid Farhangmehr from University of Ottawa (3) Danial Goodarzi from University of Ottawa Submission titles: (1) Soil temperature prediction in ordinary climate conditions and extremely hot events and its interpolation along railroad using artificial intelligence (2) A convolutional neural network model for soil temperature prediction under ordinary and hot weather conditions: comparison with a multilayer perceptron model (3) Optimizing Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Models for Accurate Soil Temperature Prediction in Various Climatic Conditions

Presenter: Allan Zhang from University of Toronto Submission Title: Time Series Classification for Emergency Response in Freight Transportation Fires

Presenter: Margaret McKay, Program Leader, AI for Logistics, NRC

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