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Development of a Portable Seat Cushion for the Estimation of Heart Rate Using Ballistocardiography
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-20)Cardiovascular diseases are a leading contributor of health problems all over the world and are the second leading cause of death. They are also the cause of significant economic burden, costing billions of dollars in ... -
Development of a Social Robot as a Mediator for Intergenerational Gameplay & Development of a Canvas for the Conceptualisation of HRI Game Design
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-21)Intergenerational interaction between grandparents and grandchildren benefits both generations. The use of a social robot in mediating this interaction is a relatively unexplored area of research. Often Human-Robot ... -
Development of an Advanced Fuzzy Active Steering Controller and a Novel Method to Tune the Fuzzy Controller
(SAE International, 2013-04-08)A two-passenger, all-wheel-drive urban electric vehicle (AUTO21EV) with four direct-drive in-wheel motors has been designed and developed at the University of Waterloo. An advanced genetic-fuzzy active steering controller ... -
Development of an Advanced Torque Vectoring Control System for an Electric Vehicle with In-Wheel Motors using Soft Computing Techniques
(SAE International, 2013-04-08)A two-passenger, all-wheel-drive urban electric vehicle (AUTO21EV) with four direct-drive in-wheel motors has been designed and developed at the University of Waterloo. A 14-degree-of-freedom model of this vehicle has been ... -
Development of an in vitro model to assess wound-healing response and biocompatibility of intraocular biomaterials
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-21)Macrophages are master regulators of inflammation, fibrosis and wound-healing throughout the body. However, little work to date has examined their role in the inflammatory and fibrotic diseases of the eye. Mounting evidence ... -
Development of an In-Vitro Model to Study the Effect of Shear and Biomaterial on Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Release by Blood Neutrophils and HL-60 Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-10)Cardiovascular biomaterials are essential for the support of damaged or diseased cardiovascular tissue and structures. Their applications include stents, heart valves, vascular grafts, and pacemakers. The success of these ... -
Development of an Integrated Control Strategy Consisting of an Advanced Torque Vectoring Controller and a Genetic Fuzzy Active Steering Controller
(SAE International, 2013-04-08)The optimum driving dynamics can be achieved only when the tire forces on all four wheels and in all three coordinate directions are monitored and controlled precisely. This advanced level of control is possible only when ... -
Development of an Integrated Model of Primary Visual Cortex
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-16)Network-level models of visual processing have potentially important insights for applications such as computer vision and robotics. Primary visual cortex is a key stage of visual processing with involvement in many circuits ... -
Development of an Online Application that Enables Older Adults to Self-assess their Driving-related Cognitive Ability
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)Our cognitive abilities can change as we age and these changes may reduce our ability to perform day to day activities, one of which is driving. Older adults with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia have been shown ... -
Development of Cell Lysis Techniques in Lab on a chip
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)The recent breakthroughs in genomics and molecular diagnostics will not be reflected in health-care systems unless the biogenetic or other nucleic acid-based tests are transferred from the laboratory to clinical market. ... -
Development of In Vitro Biocompatibility Models of the Ocular Surface
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-30)Over 120 million individuals wear contact lenses (CLs) worldwide and compared to non CL wearers, they exhibit a higher risks of eye infection and ocular inflammatory events. As CLs are evolving towards becoming diagnostic ... -
Development of novel data representations for virtual reality exergames
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-06)Being physically active is important to people of all ages for supporting health and wellbeing. Engaging in regular physical activity has been shown to foster growth and development, improve physical and cognitive functions, ... -
The Development of System Identification Approaches for Complex Haptic Devices and Modelling Virtual Effects Using Fuzzy Logic
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Haptic applications often employ devices with many degrees of freedom in order to allow the user to have natural movement during human-machine interaction. From the development point of view, the complexity in ... -
Development of Triboelectric Devices for Self-powered Sensing And Energy Harvesting Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-18)Due to the bulky size and limited lifespan of batteries, remote charging and energy har- vesting from the environment are becoming two trends to power miniaturized electronics. Tri- boelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is an ... -
Developments Towards Chromophore-Selectivity in Photoacoustic Remote Sensing Microscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-28)Medical imaging serves to diagnose and monitor illnesses in clinical settings. Several modalities such as X-Ray and Ultrasound have become ubiquitous due to their high utility. Photoacoustic microscopy, based on the ... -
Diabetic retinopathy grading with respect to the segmented lesions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)One of the leading causes of irreversible vision loss is Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). The International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy scale (ICDRS) provides grading criteria for DR. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) ... -
Diagonal Approximations to the Observation Error Covariance Matrix in Sea Ice Thickness Data Assimilation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-09)Data assimilation is a statistical technique for combining observations of a physical system with the state of a numerical model of that system. The procedure yields a new and ideally improved state estimate called the ... -
Direct Visual Servoing for Grasping Using Depth Maps
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)Visual servoing is extremely helpful for many applications such as tracking objects, controlling the position of end-effectors, grasping and many others. It has been helpful in industrial sites, academic projects and ... -
Discovering Patterns from Sequences with Applications to Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-30)Understanding Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA interaction is of fundamental importance in deciphering gene regulation and other biological processes in living cells. Traditionally, new interaction knowledge is discovered ... -
Discovering Protein Functional Regions and Protein-Protein Interaction using Co-occurring Aligned Pattern Clusters
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)Bioinformatics is a rapidly expanding field of research due to multiple recent advancements: 1) the advent of machine intelligence, 2) the increase of computing power, 3) our better understanding of the underlying biomolecular ...