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Innovative avionics architecture for drones and EVTOLs - Understand the requirements and develop a high performance configurable avionics architecture for drones and EVTOLs

Acronym: AAIDE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Aircraft architectures and equipment different from traditional aircraft make the architecture and segmentation of avionics functions inadequate. For this reason, the partners want to explore economically and technically viable solutions to develop a high performance configurable avionics...

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Innovative avionics architecture for drones and EVTOLs - Understand the requirements and develop a high performance configurable avionics architecture for drones and EVTOLs

Acronym: AAIDE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Aircraft architectures and equipment different from traditional aircraft make the architecture and segmentation of avionics functions inadequate.
For this reason, the partners want to explore economically and technically viable solutions to develop a high performance configurable avionics architecture for drones and EVTOLs.

Objectives :
- define operational and certification requirements
- define avionics configurations satisfying the requirements
- evaluate and compare possible solutions

Advanced Motor and Power Systems

Acronym: AMPS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The main objective of the project is to design and manufacture power electronic components (motors/inverters/power converters) for eVTOLs of intermediate power (less than 100 kW). The integration and optimisation of the components together is primordial for the electrification of the aeronautic sect...

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Advanced Motor and Power Systems

Acronym: AMPS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The main objective of the project is to design and manufacture power electronic components (motors/inverters/power converters) for eVTOLs of intermediate power (less than 100 kW). The integration and optimisation of the components together is primordial for the electrification of the aeronautic sector. The project goal is to design and build electrical components as well as their cooling strategy while respecting weight constraints. The project also aims at encouraging the development of a value stream for aeronautical high power electric components in Québec.

Aircraft Pilot coupling modeling, Identification and Control

Acronym: APIC /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The Control Laws design relies heavily on the level of modeling capabilities included within the tools and/or a simulation environment used which presently, encompasses mainly rigid body modeling. However, aircraft exhibit various undesirable structural flexible modes phenomena that cannot be addres...

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Aircraft Pilot coupling modeling, Identification and Control

Acronym: APIC /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The Control Laws design relies heavily on the level of modeling capabilities included within the tools and/or a simulation environment used which presently, encompasses mainly rigid body modeling. However, aircraft exhibit various undesirable structural flexible modes phenomena that cannot be addressed using rigid body control laws. Aircraft Pilot Coupling (APC) is a phenomena arising out of the coupling between lower frequency structural flexible modes and the pilot (with seat and side stick) that potentially result in unacceptable aircraft vibrations. Bombardier R&D projects have led to advancements in modelling the aircraft structural flexible modes, pilot body, side stick and seat.
The objective of this project is to validate the models as well as automatically detect and attenuate the APC vibrations.

Aircraft Representative Testing in Icing Conditions of Cutting-edge Anti-icing Technologies

Acronym: ARTIC-CAT /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

In past CRIAQ projects, Bell and its partners analysed and tested new prototypes of low power anti-icing and de-icing systems. The developed solutions could however not be tested at full scale in a representative environment. This project aims at developing a test environment to try those solutions ...

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Aircraft Representative Testing in Icing Conditions of Cutting-edge Anti-icing Technologies

Acronym: ARTIC-CAT /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

In past CRIAQ projects, Bell and its partners analysed and tested new prototypes of low power anti-icing and de-icing systems. The developed solutions could however not be tested at full scale in a representative environment. This project aims at developing a test environment to try those solutions and validate their performance on a full-scale tail rotor of a helicopter. Project goal is also to improve anti-icing and de-icing solutions previously studied and perfectionate simulation and analysis tools.

Alternatives for low carbon emission aircraft

Acronym: AVEBEC /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need: The aviation industry continues to need a large number of new pilots. Those pilots are usually trained on small aircraft powered by internal combustion engines, with associated carbon emission. Electric-powered aircraft provide the means to reduce carbon emissions, but they are limited to shor...

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Alternatives for low carbon emission aircraft

Acronym: AVEBEC /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need: The aviation industry continues to need a large number of new pilots. Those pilots are usually trained on small aircraft powered by internal combustion engines, with associated carbon emission. Electric-powered aircraft provide the means to reduce carbon emissions, but they are limited to short to medium length flights. As such, an alternative is required for longer training flights.

Objective: The objective of the project is to identify powerplant architectures with low carbon emissions for general aviation aircraft. The architecture must support multi-hour flight missions, and it may take different forms: use of alternative fuel (SAF or hydrogen), fuel consumption reduction, engine conversion, hybrid architecture, etc. It should be suitable for retrofit in existing aircraft, e.g. Piper Archer, Cessna 172, etc. Environmental advantage and cost impact are important aspects to be considered in the proposed solution.

AEROdynamic SEALS finite element modeling

Acronym: AeroSeals /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: Seal design and behavior is hard to predict, particularly for large deflection and large variation of gaps needed for a flexible aerofoil wing design in the area of flight controls. With finite element modeling methodology different designs and configurations can be tested with complex intera...

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AEROdynamic SEALS finite element modeling

Acronym: AeroSeals /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: Seal design and behavior is hard to predict, particularly for large deflection and large variation of gaps needed for a flexible aerofoil wing design in the area of flight controls. With finite element modeling methodology different designs and configurations can be tested with complex interactions such as aero loading and structure loading without the need for a complex rig or multiple separate rigs for each constraint which might not fully show the interdependency and complexity of the design. Actual parts on test rigs might be required to validate the accuracy of modeling and to potentially calibrate the methodology.

Objectives: In order to reduce the risk and close knowledge gaps, methodology of modeling of seal behavior to estimate performance would be beneficial to prevent extensive physical testing of different designs or late stage redesigns due to flight test findings.

Advanced Air Mobility and Digital Twin for UML2-UML-3 Cargo Delivery

Acronym: AirGift /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The project aims at demonstrating a solution for air delivery that fits UML-2 or UML-3 maturity such as medical cargo on predefined routes. The partnership aims at integrating the assets required for viable operation (drone platform, telco infrastructure, VOCC, VAS, airspace regulator) and iterative...

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Advanced Air Mobility and Digital Twin for UML2-UML-3 Cargo Delivery

Acronym: AirGift /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The project aims at demonstrating a solution for air delivery that fits UML-2 or UML-3 maturity such as medical cargo on predefined routes.
The partnership aims at integrating the assets required for viable operation (drone platform, telco infrastructure, VOCC, VAS, airspace regulator) and iteratively tackle more challenging BVLOS use cases.

The objectives are for each use cases:
- Implement synthetic representation of the system and use case.
- Simulate and validate the CONOPS.
- Design/improve the VAS interfaces to satisfy the users flows.
- Flight test. Demonstrate the system performances and operator capabilities.
- Evaluate and improve the digital twin data module for weather characterization, safe BVLOS by mean of augmented spatial awareness and operator control.
- Lessons learned consolidations in term of system capabilities and required amelioration for the next use cases.

Blockchain for Aeronautic Traceability, Maintenance and ANalytics

Acronym: BATMAn /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The idea is to implement a blockchain in partnership with an aerospace company to manage the tracking of aerospace components more efficiently and sustainably. This would: - improve production processes - detect risks of premature failures - prepare the industry for Industry 5.0 The expected resul...

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Blockchain for Aeronautic Traceability, Maintenance and ANalytics

Acronym: BATMAn /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The idea is to implement a blockchain in partnership with an aerospace company to manage the tracking of aerospace components more efficiently and sustainably.

This would:
- improve production processes
- detect risks of premature failures
- prepare the industry for Industry 5.0

The expected results are:
- better traceability of aerospace components
- reduction of paper used for documentation
- improved intersectoral analytical and predictive tools.

BVLOS Operations Next-generation WEATHER services - advanced low altitude micro-weather services for canadian BVLOS operations

Acronym: BONWeather /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The project addresses the low-altitude weather data gap at the surface to 1,500m, which impacts the safety, scaling, efficiency, and profitability of the RPAS industry. The gap creates uncertainty, increasing BVLOS flight risk and unnecessary aircraft groundings. We will show the value of higher dat...

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BVLOS Operations Next-generation WEATHER services - advanced low altitude micro-weather services for canadian BVLOS operations

Acronym: BONWeather /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The project addresses the low-altitude weather data gap at the surface to 1,500m, which impacts the safety, scaling, efficiency, and profitability of the RPAS industry.
The gap creates uncertainty, increasing BVLOS flight risk and unnecessary aircraft groundings. We will show the value of higher data density in a living weather lab in an urban/suburban locality where RPAS and AAM operations will occur.

The objectives are:
- placement of novel weather sensors;
- sensor networking, including wind lidars, weather drones, low-cost wind and ceiling/visibility sensors and wind data from working drones;
- edge processing and transmission of hazard detect and avoid messages to UAM/UTM systems;
- demonstrating the ASTM F38 Draft Weather Standard is feasible by quantifying and validating IOT weather.

Technical challenges include real estate to deploy sensors, sensor networking, and collecting, processing and transmitting hazardous weather messages in minutes to drive automated aircraft re-routing.

Context Specific Understanding of HMI by an Automated Agent

Acronym: CONCIOUS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The project aims to explore AI technologies which can be combined to interpret and understand information on pilot, ATC, and dispatch displays, but specifically in off-nominal conditions. Such an assortment of technologies would be useful in safe operations when the pilot is experiencing workload st...

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Context Specific Understanding of HMI by an Automated Agent

Acronym: CONCIOUS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The project aims to explore AI technologies which can be combined to interpret and understand information on pilot, ATC, and dispatch displays, but specifically in off-nominal conditions. Such an assortment of technologies would be useful in safe operations when the pilot is experiencing workload stress, training newer recruits in the job profiles mentioned earlier, workload sharing, etc.

The goals are to :
- Encode HMI's associated ecosystem in formal language
- Creating an automated reasoning agent that responds to queries in natural language

Design & operation of a light, optimized and modular battery

Acronym: COULOMB /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The COULOMB project goal is to design a modular battery pack optimized for high discharge rates. The main difficulty related to the development of eVTOLs is the design of a safe and light battery. The high power drawn from the battery during take-off and landing generates a lot of heat within the ce...

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Design & operation of a light, optimized and modular battery

Acronym: COULOMB /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The COULOMB project goal is to design a modular battery pack optimized for high discharge rates. The main difficulty related to the development of eVTOLs is the design of a safe and light battery. The high power drawn from the battery during take-off and landing generates a lot of heat within the cells. This heat must be managed to avoid thermal runaways. Current packing and cooling solutions for batteries are heavy and could be optimized. The proposed project will consist of a redesign and optimization of a battery already used in an experimental aircraft.

Characterization of hydrogen fuel cells degradation to aeronautics

Acronym: CaDePHA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Aeronautical electric propulsion requires high energy density ((kWh/m3) and high specific power (kW/kg). The combined use of H2 fuel cells (FC) and batteries makes it possible to achieve these two objectives. However, batteries and fuel cells do not have the same lifetime characteristics The objecti...

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Characterization of hydrogen fuel cells degradation to aeronautics

Acronym: CaDePHA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Aeronautical electric propulsion requires high energy density ((kWh/m3) and high specific power (kW/kg). The combined use of H2 fuel cells (FC) and batteries makes it possible to achieve these two objectives. However, batteries and fuel cells do not have the same lifetime characteristics The objective of the CaDePHA project is to characterize, in an accelerated manner, the degradation of fuel cells in order to better manage the energy required for aeronautical use (low air density, cold temperatures, etc.)

Concepts and Procedures for Testing EVTOL Navigation

Acronym: CaPTEN /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need : EVTOLs have different flight characteristics and capabilities than traditional aircraft. For this reason is it necessary to understand and integrate the constraints of airspaces and vertiports / heliports for the navigation of EVTOLs in a BVLOS context and assess the feasibilty of these oper...

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Concepts and Procedures for Testing EVTOL Navigation

Acronym: CaPTEN /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need : EVTOLs have different flight characteristics and capabilities than traditional aircraft.
For this reason is it necessary to understand and integrate the constraints of airspaces and vertiports / heliports for the navigation of EVTOLs in a BVLOS context and assess the feasibilty of these operatons depending on the constraints of the equipments and diferent type of aircrafts.

Objectives: :
- define standard and emergency procedures for EVTOL corridors
- define standard and emergency procedures for vertiports
- define the requirements in terms of sensors and the performance of these sensors
- define the operational constraints of BVLOS operations for EVTOLs
- develop simulation and test models and validate the procedures envisaged in BVLOS

Compressor rotor Performance Improvement Through Superfinishing

Acronym: CoPITS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

There are a range of superfinishing processes that have been developed that are commercially available to improve compressor efficiency. The process capabilities on complex airfoil shapes are not known and the ability to predict the aerodynamics benefits from superfinishing is not well understood. T...

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Compressor rotor Performance Improvement Through Superfinishing

Acronym: CoPITS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

There are a range of superfinishing processes that have been developed that are commercially available to improve compressor efficiency. The process capabilities on complex airfoil shapes are not known and the ability to predict the aerodynamics benefits from superfinishing is not well understood.
This project aims to demonstrate the longevity of the superfinishing benefits due to effects of erosions, stone impact and accumulation of dirt on the airfoils needs to be established. Other unknown effects of the process include effects of compressor wash cleaning, fatigue, and residual stress.

Cryogenic Hydrogen Optimized for Vertical Take Off and Landing

Acronym: CrHyO-VTOL /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The proposed project aims at studying the technologies for storage of cryogenic hydrogen to establish its potential and fully understand their integration challenge for future VTOLs. Project will cover storage technologies for cryogenic hydrogen as well as elements required for its transformation in...

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Cryogenic Hydrogen Optimized for Vertical Take Off and Landing

Acronym: CrHyO-VTOL /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The proposed project aims at studying the technologies for storage of cryogenic hydrogen to establish its potential and fully understand their integration challenge for future VTOLs. Project will cover storage technologies for cryogenic hydrogen as well as elements required for its transformation into energy. A high-level full system optimisation will also be conducted to consider benefits of having a cooling source (cryogenic hydrogen) present in the vehicle.

Virtual Test Rig for Aircraft CYBERsecurity testing

Acronym: CyberVTRA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: CyberVTRA has the potential to significantly enhance the conception and the evolution of rigs (software updates, networking updates, addition of new equipment) by automating the deployment of a virtual environment, replicating a part or the entire network architecture of the aircraft. Object...

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Virtual Test Rig for Aircraft CYBERsecurity testing

Acronym: CyberVTRA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: CyberVTRA has the potential to significantly enhance the conception and the evolution of rigs (software updates, networking updates, addition of new equipment) by automating the deployment of a virtual environment, replicating a part or the entire network architecture of the aircraft.

Objectives: As such, CyberVTRA will enable :
- Performing cybersecurity tests of systems and network architecture
- Training of people involved with the aircraft security (AHMU logs monitoring, suppliers, maintenance technicians, crew).

Data and Automation for hYbrid Connected Aviation systems

Acronym: DAyCA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The civil aviation stakeholders face increasingly complex cyber-risks that may impact the continuity of organization operations, flight safety and airworthiness. The supply chain, regulators, manufacturers, and airlines are seeking higher adoption of new technologies, automation, and AI-based equip...

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Data and Automation for hYbrid Connected Aviation systems

Acronym: DAyCA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The civil aviation stakeholders face increasingly complex cyber-risks that may impact the continuity of organization operations, flight safety and airworthiness. The supply chain, regulators, manufacturers, and airlines are seeking higher adoption of new technologies, automation, and AI-based equipment, that are highly interconnected and interdependent. There is currently no model nor environment that allows the aerospace industry to explore the interconnection risks in a secure and real context.

To understand and mitigate the cyber-risks that new technology may represent, aviation stakeholders need to deal with dozens of suppliers furnished equipment. Regulators are also often left in a trust or not trust situation without any capacity to assess or simulate the risks in a controlled environment.

The objective of the project is to find the fundamental base or means to allow to assess cyber-risk with:
- Data models
- Automation
- Cyber-twining

Operations in a Denied Environnement for Searching and Kilometrage

Acronym: DESK /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

DESK will enable the recently demonstrated St. Bernard Autonomous Search and Rescue UAV platform to operate in GPS denied areas, allowing it to be used in more remote areas and to provide visibility to places and to rescuers previously difficult to reach in a short window of time. By providing the f...

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Operations in a Denied Environnement for Searching and Kilometrage

Acronym: DESK /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

DESK will enable the recently demonstrated St. Bernard Autonomous Search and Rescue UAV platform to operate in GPS denied areas, allowing it to be used in more remote areas and to provide visibility to places and to rescuers previously difficult to reach in a short window of time. By providing the flexibility for the UAV, will move the product closer to MVP stage while providing value to first responders and wildlife conservation in the National Parks in North America.

To meet this need, it is important to perform all of these steps:
- Demonstrate and develop stability and controllability logic to support autonomous flight at a greater distance from a control station;
- Increase air mobility and operational efficiency;
- Identify flight characteristics and signaling profiles for failure prediction;
- Obtain data needed for the platform development.

Development of an Electric Vertical and Conventional take-off and landing (eVTOL+eCTOL) Aircraft

Acronym: DEVCA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts are being developed to revolutionize the transportation industry" They fly over traffic, drastically reducing commuting time and greenhouse gas emissions. Limosa Inc. is a leading company to design and manufacutre an eVTOL+eCTOL in Québec. Thi...

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Development of an Electric Vertical and Conventional take-off and landing (eVTOL+eCTOL) Aircraft

Acronym: DEVCA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts are being developed to revolutionize the transportation industry" They fly over traffic, drastically reducing commuting time and greenhouse gas emissions. Limosa Inc. is a leading company to design and manufacutre an eVTOL+eCTOL in Québec. This is to introduce a new mode of transportation in the urban and regional areas by using air as the third dimension. Developing a new aircraft requires a masisve work of research and development. It starts with a new concept and follows by application of cutting-edge technologies in the development of different components susch as propulsion units, aerostructure, aerodynamics shape optimization, avionics and control systems, battery integration and thermal management, wight and balance and flight dynamics.

This research is devoted to:
- performing high-fidelity calculations including finite element analyses,
- computational fluid dynamics,
- acoustic analysis and aerodynamics shape optimization.

Design Of Ground Stations - requirements definition and design of ground control stations for remotely piloted aircraft

Acronym: DOGS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Autonomous or remotely piloted systems will require ground control stations. As of today, there is no standard or specification for these stations. This project aims to develop an understanding of operational and certification requirements for ground cockpits and which architectures will meet...

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Design Of Ground Stations - requirements definition and design of ground control stations for remotely piloted aircraft

Acronym: DOGS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Autonomous or remotely piloted systems will require ground control stations. As of today, there is no standard or specification for these stations. This project aims to develop an understanding of operational and certification requirements for ground cockpits and which architectures will meet those requirements.

Objectives :
- Define the information required by the pilot / ground operator and the pilot - machine interfaces
- Define the different communication links (air-ground and ground-ground)
- Define certification requirements (Design Assurance Level for hardware and software, human factors, etc.)
- Define systems architectures for these cockpits

Autonomous drone box for harsh environment

Acronym: DRONEST /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: - Better situational awareness for personnel deployment (Defense and Security) - Development of corridors for the transport of goods (Transport, Cargo) - Securing perimeters and infrastructures - Linear: Borders, pipeline - Local: Mines and quarries

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Autonomous drone box for harsh environment

Acronym: DRONEST /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs:
- Better situational awareness for personnel deployment (Defense and Security)
- Development of corridors for the transport of goods (Transport, Cargo)
- Securing perimeters and infrastructures
- Linear: Borders, pipeline
- Local: Mines and quarries

Digital Twin Software in the Loop integration Environment

Acronym: DigiSoLE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: Transform the traditional integration approaches toward this new Digital Age where both physical equipment and Digital Twins can be integrated within a virtual environment where the Hosting Environment may be hosted locally or in the Cloud. This new environment needs to support development a...

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Digital Twin Software in the Loop integration Environment

Acronym: DigiSoLE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs:
Transform the traditional integration approaches toward this new Digital Age where both physical equipment and Digital Twins can be integrated within a virtual environment where the Hosting Environment may be hosted locally or in the Cloud. This new environment needs to support development activities, simulation activities, system testing with hardware or digital twins in the loop.

Objectives:
- Explore the use of Digital-Twin technologies for Avionics, Mission and Weapon Systems (Models) in safety critical applications.
- Explore the technologies to host, stimulate, simulate and execute application models in an Open Virtual SIL.
- Explore the technologies needed to support the protection of Intellectual Property and Controlled Information (Cybersecurity).
- Support the simultaneous use of an Open Virtual SIL by multiple development programs.
- Develop the automation server to support running of simulation tests continuously to verify new design iterations (DevSecOps).

Climatic Drone for meteorological and Aerological Measurements

Acronym: DreAM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

- FLYING WHALES Quebec is developing a 200-meter-long airship dedicated to cargo transportation, up to 60 metric tons. - This airship will serve, among others, isolated industries and communities in Québec, Canada and the rest of the world. - For its best possible operability, anticipation of wind...

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Climatic Drone for meteorological and Aerological Measurements

Acronym: DreAM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

- FLYING WHALES Quebec is developing a 200-meter-long airship dedicated to cargo transportation, up to 60 metric tons.
- This airship will serve, among others, isolated industries and communities in Québec, Canada and the rest of the world.
- For its best possible operability, anticipation of wind gusts is a must. Knowledge of the meteorological and aerological conditions around the airship is therefore essential. For this, the development of a drone 'climate' is considered.

The project therefore aims to :
- Develop the necessary sensors to measure in real time the meteorological and aerological parameters (pressure, temperature, wind speed).
- Integrate these sensors into a flying drone.
- Allow a synchronized measurement of the targeted parameters in the case of a fleet of drones having to carry out measurements at precise places around the airship.

Cockpit Integration of AI optimized flight path algorithm

Acronym: FLIP /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Exploiting weather patterns (wind, thermals, etc.) has the potential to substantially increase flight times for surveillance aircraft (manned or unmanned) and to minimize fuel consumption during ferry flight. AI algorithms can generate a flight plan from the ground and update flight plans in the air...

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Cockpit Integration of AI optimized flight path algorithm

Acronym: FLIP /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Exploiting weather patterns (wind, thermals, etc.) has the potential to substantially increase flight times for surveillance aircraft (manned or unmanned) and to minimize fuel consumption during ferry flight. AI algorithms can generate a flight plan from the ground and update flight plans in the air using on-board sensors and real-time weather data. The research needs for this project, center around establishing a framework to allow the optimal Human-Machine interaction in this context.

Objectives :
- Integrate AI optimized routing algorithm with a cockpit display system on a piloted aircraft
- Determine the best approach to integrate AI optimized routing information to the pilot
- Develop, integrate and certified the solution in a simulated environment and on the aircraft

Sizing and Control of Reconfigurable Battery Packs

Acronym: FlexBatt /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The performance of the whole battery pack is limited by the performance of the worst cells of the pack, thus depriving the propulsion train to draw the maximum possible energy (reduction of the operational range). We propose to investigate a dynamic reconfiguration according to the internal state of...

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Sizing and Control of Reconfigurable Battery Packs

Acronym: FlexBatt /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The performance of the whole battery pack is limited by the performance of the worst cells of the pack, thus depriving the propulsion train to draw the maximum possible energy (reduction of the operational range). We propose to investigate a dynamic reconfiguration according to the internal state of each cell so as to draw the maximum energy in discharge mode and store the maximum energy in recharge mode.

The project will :
- study the advantage of reconfigurable batteries compared to conventional modular batteries for aircraft.
- optimize and control a reconfigurable battery pack.
- develop in simulation a reconfigurable battery pack system equipped with an intelligent BMS (Battery Management System)
- evaluate in simulation the performance (energy efficiency) of the reconfigurable battery pack in charge and discharge mode according to typical aeronautical mission profiles
- evaluate the impact of reconfiguration on battery degradation modes.

Whole airport simulation to optimize operations

Acronym: FlyVerse /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Airport optimization opportunities abound but the primary challenge is privacy of passenger data. Passenger flow models exist but privacy concerns prevent us from creating a holistic airport operations optimization solution. Realistic simulation capabilities can optimize airport operations holistica...

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Whole airport simulation to optimize operations

Acronym: FlyVerse /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Airport optimization opportunities abound but the primary challenge is privacy of passenger data. Passenger flow models exist but privacy concerns prevent us from creating a holistic airport operations optimization solution. Realistic simulation capabilities can optimize airport operations holistically.

The objective is to create physics-realistic simulation environment of airport operations to train optimization algorithms to predict: Passenger bottleneck locations, Boarding times, airport space utilization, checkpoints.

HFE software Tool Suite

Acronym: HF-TS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The HFTS project aim to develop a tool suite for the Pilot Interface team (HFE) who use quick prototyping tool (Figma, Visio, Axure, etc.) to design and share Human Machine Interfaces concepts (HMI) with OEMs and end-users. The Software team requires detailed requirements to implement the HMI in a D...

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HFE software Tool Suite

Acronym: HF-TS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The HFTS project aim to develop a tool suite for the Pilot Interface team (HFE) who use quick prototyping tool (Figma, Visio, Axure, etc.) to design and share Human Machine Interfaces concepts (HMI) with OEMs and end-users. The Software team requires detailed requirements to implement the HMI in a DO178-C context. The challenge is to ensure rapid and cost-effective transition between the HFE team work and Software process while complying with strict certification requirements imposed by DO178-C.

The objectives are to:
- Provide a tools suite to generate widget safety critical code from a graphical element defined by the pilot interface team in the quick prototyping tool. The generated widgets will be embedded to solution like ARINC 661 server and other tools.
- Allow the HFE team to create display pages (using the same widgets) in the prototyping tool and to generate the A661 Definition File.

High temperature metallic alloy for Powder metallurgy

Acronym: Hi-Powder /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need: Develop metallic powder alloy with acceptable ductility that is compatible with additive manufacturing process and that can withstand higher temperatures than current alloys. Objectives: - Melt enough ingot in laboratory to produce experimental-size powder batches. - Atomize alloy to a given ...

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High temperature metallic alloy for Powder metallurgy

Acronym: Hi-Powder /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need: Develop metallic powder alloy with acceptable ductility that is compatible with additive manufacturing process and that can withstand higher temperatures than current alloys.

Objectives:
- Melt enough ingot in laboratory to produce experimental-size powder batches.
- Atomize alloy to a given powder size distribution.
- Manufacture a prototype shape with a relevant additive manufacture technique.
- Heat treat the generic shape.
- Evaluate quality by an appropriate non-destructive method.
- Determine basic thermal and mechanical properties.

Innovative COOLing engineering

Acronym: ICool /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Objective: The objective of this project is to validate the reliability, the performance and the safety of our innovative thermal management technologies and energy storage solutions for electric and hybrid hydrogen-electric propelled aeronefs. Need: In the framework of this project, we are looking...

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Innovative COOLing engineering

Acronym: ICool /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Objective: The objective of this project is to validate the reliability, the performance and the safety of our innovative thermal management technologies and energy storage solutions for electric and hybrid hydrogen-electric propelled aeronefs.

Need: In the framework of this project, we are looking for partners to integrate our technologies in batteries, power electronic components, or fuel cells of their systems to test it under realistic flight environments.

Integration of Pilot Behavior Modeling into human factors design and cockpit training tools

Acronym: IPBM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs : Artificial intelligence technology to model pilot behaviour using biometric sensors that measure pilot stress levels. Objectives : - Integrate the Pilot behaviour modeling in the design of cockpit display systems with the aim of optimizing the design by minimizing the subjectivity of the ev...

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Integration of Pilot Behavior Modeling into human factors design and cockpit training tools

Acronym: IPBM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs : Artificial intelligence technology to model pilot behaviour using biometric sensors that measure pilot stress levels.

Objectives :
- Integrate the Pilot behaviour modeling in the design of cockpit display systems with the aim of optimizing the design by minimizing the subjectivity of the evaluation of the human machine interface in order to evaluate the cognitive load related to the operation of the system, but also to detect human errors and identify their sources.
- Integrate technology with pilot training solutions.

Integrated Vibration Isolation Attachment Systems by Additive Manufacturing

Acronym: IVIASAM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

To reduce the number of materials in individual components like fixtures of cabin monuments, a way to optimize the component's design to incorporate vibration isolation and damping characteristics is sought. Additive manufacturing ensures the producibility of the resulting component design. The pro...

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Integrated Vibration Isolation Attachment Systems by Additive Manufacturing

Acronym: IVIASAM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

To reduce the number of materials in individual components like fixtures of cabin monuments, a way to optimize the component's design to incorporate vibration isolation and damping characteristics is sought. Additive manufacturing ensures the producibility of the resulting component design.

The project spans the entire process from :
- the component's design optimization
- the forecast of the component's influence on cabin acoustics
- the manufacturing process route utilizing additive manufacturing and assessment of environmental factors, e.g., recyclability.

Method to Audit and TEst COmputer vision to certify robust and reliable operation in the aerospace industry

Acronym: MATeCo /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need: Part 1: This collaboration aims to further develop rigorous testing and validation capacities for AI deployed in aerospace, focusing on the AI sub-domain of computer vision (CV). Part 2: One area of focus within aerospace will be drones/UAVs. These testing methods aim to quantify the reliab...

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Method to Audit and TEst COmputer vision to certify robust and reliable operation in the aerospace industry

Acronym: MATeCo /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need:
Part 1: This collaboration aims to further develop rigorous testing and validation capacities for AI deployed in aerospace, focusing on the AI sub-domain of computer vision (CV).
Part 2: One area of focus within aerospace will be drones/UAVs.
These testing methods aim to quantify the reliability and robustness of CV in critical aerospace operations.
CV includes three categories of image analysis: image classification, object detection and image segmentation. So far, Zetane developed testing capacities for image classification.

Objectives:
- Develop equivalent testing methods for object detection.
- Develop equivalent testing methods for segmentation.
- Quantify and confirm the benefits of the testing methods for responsible deployment of CV in aerospace and for UAVs.

High integrity Multi-Constellation and Multi-Frequency (MCMF) positioning receiver

Acronym: MC-MF /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

CMC and LASSENA wish to launch a joint research project on MCMF receivers. The performance of multi-frequency and multi-constellation receivers is essential to provide the integrity, availability and accuracy of positioning and velocity in support of navigation and flight controls for the new genera...

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High integrity Multi-Constellation and Multi-Frequency (MCMF) positioning receiver

Acronym: MC-MF /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

CMC and LASSENA wish to launch a joint research project on MCMF receivers. The performance of multi-frequency and multi-constellation receivers is essential to provide the integrity, availability and accuracy of positioning and velocity in support of navigation and flight controls for the new generation of aircraft in development (RPAS, EVTOLs)

Technological challenges:
- Determine the signals to be used for the optimal navigation solution;
- Software development approach maintaining previous certification artefacts while introducing automatic code generation techniques;
- Radio frequency chain to ensure signal reception under interference and low signal conditions;
- Implementation of spoofing and jamming detection and mitigation strategies.

Multi-Link Network Communications for BVLOS operations

Acronym: ML-NC /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need : As uncrewed (autonomous and remotely piloted) aircraft of different types take to the sky delivering goods, transporting people, or performing tasks like inspections and surveillance, it has become clear that multiple and dissimilar means of communicating with the aircraft are required for sa...

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Multi-Link Network Communications for BVLOS operations

Acronym: ML-NC /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need : As uncrewed (autonomous and remotely piloted) aircraft of different types take to the sky delivering goods, transporting people, or performing tasks like inspections and surveillance, it has become clear that multiple and dissimilar means of communicating with the aircraft are required for safe and secure BVLOS operations.

Main objective : develop a multi-link solution providing resilient data services to support aircraft for BVLOS operations. This multi-link networking capability would consist of hybrid satellite L-band and cellular technology.

Through the course of the project :
- aircraft communications hardware will need to be identified or developed
- air-to-ground networks will be modified to allow different (and simultaneous) methods of communication with the aircraft.
- involvement of multiple project stakeholders including aircraft manufacturers, communications and data providers, as well as aviation regulatory agencies.

Sheet Metal thermomechanical process mapping

Acronym: MetalForm /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need for a comprehensive sheet metal process map for acceleration of forming of novel materials, tooling optimization, and cost reduction. Objectives: - Development of strain map method, including robust strain measurement patterning technique, automated visual tracking and mapping of strain measu...

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Sheet Metal thermomechanical process mapping

Acronym: MetalForm /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need for a comprehensive sheet metal process map for acceleration of forming of novel materials, tooling optimization, and cost reduction.

Objectives:
- Development of strain map method, including robust strain measurement patterning technique, automated visual tracking and mapping of strain measurements on specimens and formed parts.
- Building of a thermomechanical forming limit diagram.

Robust Machine Learning for metallographic analysis

Acronym: Micro-ML /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need: Robust automated collection and evaluation method of microstructure features such as alloy grain size, second phase size, defects or fractographic features. Objectives: - Determine which key metallographic features can be evaluated using Machine Learning image recognition software. - Build, t...

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Robust Machine Learning for metallographic analysis

Acronym: Micro-ML /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need: Robust automated collection and evaluation method of microstructure features such as alloy grain size, second phase size, defects or fractographic features.

Objectives:
- Determine which key metallographic features can be evaluated using Machine Learning image recognition software.
- Build, train and validate Machine Learning models for selected features.
- Depending on features selected and model power, potentially correlate metrics with alloy behavior.

News Analytics Platform

Acronym: NAP /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The need of this project idea is to search for information specific to the aeronautical domain through unstructured, independent, and reliable data sources such as specialized aeronautical news, blogs... The main objective is to obtain automated and intelligent analysis and interpretation tools to ...

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News Analytics Platform

Acronym: NAP /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The need of this project idea is to search for information specific to the aeronautical domain through unstructured, independent, and reliable data sources such as specialized aeronautical news, blogs...

The main objective is to obtain automated and intelligent analysis and interpretation tools to diagnose and deepen a search by limiting human effort and execution time.

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Panel Inspection And Repair Drone

Acronym: PIARD /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

- FLYING WHALES Québec is developing a 200-meter-long airship dedicated to cargo transportation, up to 60 metric tons. - This airship will serve, among others, isolated industries and communities in Quebec, Canada and the rest of the world. - To maximise operational availability, it is crucial to b...

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Panel Inspection And Repair Drone

Acronym: PIARD /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

- FLYING WHALES Québec is developing a 200-meter-long airship dedicated to cargo transportation, up to 60 metric tons.
- This airship will serve, among others, isolated industries and communities in Quebec, Canada and the rest of the world.
- To maximise operational availability, it is crucial to be able to inspect the external envelope of the airship to locate possible damages, qualify them and repair them.
- To do this, the development of a drone capable of carrying out these inspection and repair operations is one of the options considered.

The project therefore aims at:
- Develop the necessary sensors to locate and measure the defects of the airship external surface.
- Integrate these sensors into a flying drone.
- Develop a lightweight panel repair system compatible with the installation on a flying drone.
- Integrate this system into the flying drone.

PILOT Safety Awareness over Flying Encounter

Acronym: Pilot-SAFE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Context : The Pilot-SAFE project idea was originally proposed by Prof. St-Onge and his team from ETS. The project aims at providing data on risk awareness for BVLOS operations with multiple aircraft (cooperative and non-cooperative). Objectives : - Measure operator cognitive load, namely: heart-ra...

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PILOT Safety Awareness over Flying Encounter

Acronym: Pilot-SAFE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Context : The Pilot-SAFE project idea was originally proposed by Prof. St-Onge and his team from ETS.

The project aims at providing data on risk awareness for BVLOS operations with multiple aircraft (cooperative and non-cooperative).

Objectives :
- Measure operator cognitive load, namely: heart-rate, pupillometry, reaction time and perceived task load;
- Assess the performance of inter-aircraft communication systems and collision avoidance strategies;
- Compare operator awareness: standard mission planner, heatmap visualisation and auditory cues;
- Test on 20+ aircraft in simulation, then 6-12 aircraft in the field;
- Design custom airborne transmission devices for single operator fleet control.

Primary structure development for UAV using fixed and rotary wings

Acronym: PrimaDrona /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs - Build a drone using fixed and rotating wings, slowing the rotor in cruise flight; - Build at the best price, with the latest additive and plastic manufacturing technologies; - Create a vector capable of reaching long distances with the heaviest possible payload; - Support the structural load...

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Primary structure development for UAV using fixed and rotary wings

Acronym: PrimaDrona /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs
- Build a drone using fixed and rotating wings, slowing the rotor in cruise flight;
- Build at the best price, with the latest additive and plastic manufacturing technologies;
- Create a vector capable of reaching long distances with the heaviest possible payload;
- Support the structural loads for the various aspects of flight using a slow-turning rotor;
- Achieve enhanced safety by using redundancy of both lifting surfaces;
- Ensure higher criticality BVLOS flights over people.


Objectives
- Develop manufacturing technologies using thermosets and carbon-reinforced thermoplastics ;
- Use of additive manufacturing and utilize design for manufacture methods to produce and assemble ;
- Develop a tilting rotor mast;
- Drive system integration and power distribution;
- Integration of an energy recovery system during descending flight phases.

RPAS Urban Wind Forecaster

Acronym: RUWF /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Safe BVLOS operations requires reliable weather and wind forecasts for route planning and navigation. Weather forecasts for traditional aviation operations rely on weather data for open environments and do not reflect conditions in the built environment. Reliable wind forecasts will be needed...

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RPAS Urban Wind Forecaster

Acronym: RUWF /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Safe BVLOS operations requires reliable weather and wind forecasts for route planning and navigation.
Weather forecasts for traditional aviation operations rely on weather data for open environments and do not reflect conditions in the built environment. Reliable wind forecasts will be needed to reflect mechanical turbulence in the built environment since wind impacts RPAS controllability, ride quality and power needs.


Objectives :
- Develop RUWF for integration with other BVLOS technology enablers, such as : RPAS control systems, navigation and route planning systems and air traffic management systems.
- Get input on RPAS performance envelope for adverse wind conditions and establish sensitivity to rapid changes of conditions.
- Establish the level of fidelity needed for wind forecasting using either numerical simulations and/or wind tunnel experiments
- Develop a tool that takes weather forecasts from government weather services and adjusts the wind predictions to account for the influence of buildings in space and in time at the required fidelity and efficiency so wind conditions can be provided in real time to inform decisions.

Aerospace assembly support solution based on computer vision

Acronym: SAAVO /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Project of development and demonstration of an aerospace assembly support solution based on computer vision. This system will enable manufacturing companies to identify improvement opportunities in their operations, simplify the resolution of non-conformances and may also help them reduce the risk o...

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Aerospace assembly support solution based on computer vision

Acronym: SAAVO /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Project of development and demonstration of an aerospace assembly support solution based on computer vision. This system will enable manufacturing companies to identify improvement opportunities in their operations, simplify the resolution of non-conformances and may also help them reduce the risk of musculoskeletal diseases for operators.

The objectives of the project are :
- Optimize the integration of commercial cameras & sensors with state-of-the-art AI models
- Define and demonstrate the performance criteria (technical and commercial) of the solution in a realistic environment with potential user companies
- Define a methodology for the development and deployement of the technology to ensure acceptability by users (in particular operators of user companies)

Smart Airside Management

Acronym: SAM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The challenge of SAM project is to improve AI models' accuracy, performance, and scalability in real-world scenarios and the current system. Objectives: - Build an AI solution that detects FOD in real-time through cameras or drones with partners - Build an AI solution that provides abnormality dete...

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Smart Airside Management

Acronym: SAM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The challenge of SAM project is to improve AI models' accuracy, performance, and scalability in real-world scenarios and the current system.

Objectives:
- Build an AI solution that detects FOD in real-time through cameras or drones with partners
- Build an AI solution that provides abnormality detection for airside operations with partners
- Improve and test an AI solution that tracks and analyzes airside operations to increase turnaround management efficiency with partners

Smart Identification of Emergency Landing Areas

Acronym: SIELA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Despite the recent developments in UAVs for handling emergencies in BVLOS applications like returning home, hovering, or landing, finding a suitable spot for an emergency landing is still an open challenge. Emergency landing can cause damage to the drone, payload, humans, or surrounding prope...

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Smart Identification of Emergency Landing Areas

Acronym: SIELA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Despite the recent developments in UAVs for handling emergencies in BVLOS applications like returning home, hovering, or landing, finding a suitable spot for an emergency landing is still an open challenge. Emergency landing can cause damage to the drone, payload, humans, or surrounding properties. Thus, finding a proper spot is essential for human safety and to avoid possible damage.

Objective : This project proposes to develop an automated real-time multi-modal method for drones.
The technique uses coupled thermal and visible cameras to survey the surrounding area and find the most suitable location to land by determining the surrounding areas' geological properties such as flatness level, vegetation level, roughness level (e.g., zones with several big stones), area size, sinking possibility (e.g., a body of water), land rigidity, and obstacles. Also, the system sould detect humans. The method uses the extracted information to identify the safest spot for landing according to the measured factors

Use of the oxydo-reduction MAGnesium cycle for a zero-ballast SOLAR-propulsion airship

Acronym: SOLARMag /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

- FLYING WHALES Quebec is developing a 200-meter-long airship dedicated to cargo transportation, up to 60 metric tons. - This airship will serve, among others, isolated industries and communities in Québec, Canada and the rest of the world. - The airship has a significant need of energy and its bu...

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Use of the oxydo-reduction MAGnesium cycle for a zero-ballast SOLAR-propulsion airship

Acronym: SOLARMag /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

- FLYING WHALES Quebec is developing a 200-meter-long airship dedicated to cargo transportation, up to 60 metric tons.
- This airship will serve, among others, isolated industries and communities in Québec, Canada and the rest of the world.
- The airship has a significant need of energy and its buoyancy must be handled to load and off-load its payload. Magnesium could meet these two requirements thanks to its good volumic energy and because it is an abundant ressource as coproduct of desalinisation.

The project aims therefore to implement lightweight and reliable systems allowing to control:
- Inflight exothermic oxydation of Mg with water to produce MgO and H2 with Heat
- H2 : to produce electricity thanks to hydrogen fuel cells
- MgO : stored in the airship
- Heat management :
- to heat up the buoyant gas and modify its buoyancy
- to produce energy thanks to a Stirling engine
- Reduction of MgO back to the base thanks to a solar concentrator to produce Magnesium back : virtuous cycle !

Scanning surfaces and objects With Autonomous and Intelligent Drones

Acronym: SWAID /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs : - Inspect hard-to-reach areas safely and independently - Reduce the time needed to prepare and carry out an inspection mission. - Reduce the environmental impact of aerial inspection missions - Adaptation to external conditions and unforeseen events Objectives : - Pilot a fleet of autonomou...

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Scanning surfaces and objects With Autonomous and Intelligent Drones

Acronym: SWAID /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs :
- Inspect hard-to-reach areas safely and independently
- Reduce the time needed to prepare and carry out an inspection mission.
- Reduce the environmental impact of aerial inspection missions
- Adaptation to external conditions and unforeseen events

Objectives :
- Pilot a fleet of autonomous drones to fly over and photograph an area
- Develop real-time obstacle detection and avoidance AI
- Coordinate the drone fleet to minimise journeys and optimise battery recharging
- Reconstruct the 3D digital twin of the environment
- Comply with aeronautical regulations

Safety framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) based system

Acronym: SafeAI /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Using AI/ML based system with high level of human-machine interaction is a necessity to deploy autonomous air mobility in urban areas. The existing functional safety tools and methodologies are not capable of addressing the complexity of modern air mobility solutions. New Safety tools are required t...

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Safety framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) based system

Acronym: SafeAI /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Using AI/ML based system with high level of human-machine interaction is a necessity to deploy autonomous air mobility in urban areas. The existing functional safety tools and methodologies are not capable of addressing the complexity of modern air mobility solutions. New Safety tools are required to help designer of such systems to model both safety aspect of human-machine interaction and safety aspect of AI/ML-based systems.

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Cargo & Humanitarian Operations for Remote Communities

Acronym: SkyBridge /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Project outside Quebec Objective: establish a reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly method of transportation using drones to improve connectivity and access to resources for remote communities Research objectives: - Determine feasibility of using drones for BVLOS operations - Ident...

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Cargo & Humanitarian Operations for Remote Communities

Acronym: SkyBridge /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Project outside Quebec
Objective: establish a reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly method of transportation using drones to improve connectivity and access to resources for remote communities

Research objectives:
- Determine feasibility of using drones for BVLOS operations
- Identify and evaluate potential routes
- Develop and test protocols
- Determine potential benefits and risks
- Engage with stakeholders (e.g. communities, regulator, ...)
- Investigate best use cases (e.g access to food, resources and services; long distance transportation; waste management operations)

SYMBiotic Intelligent Agent for human-automation conflict prevention

Acronym: SymbIA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need: Higher level of automation required for Single Pilot Operation and Advanced Airspace will increase the opportunities for conflict between human and automation that can lead to lack of trust in automation, cybernetic misunderstanding and ultimately to catastrophic events. Objectives: - Underst...

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SYMBiotic Intelligent Agent for human-automation conflict prevention

Acronym: SymbIA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need: Higher level of automation required for Single Pilot Operation and Advanced Airspace will increase the opportunities for conflict between human and automation that can lead to lack of trust in automation, cybernetic misunderstanding and ultimately to catastrophic events.

Objectives:
- Understand the different causes of human-automation conflicts
- Develop a Model of Errors, Misunderstanding and Conflicts with Automation
- Design simplified HMI to Prevent and Mitigate conflicts
- Develop a unified Symbiotic Intelligent Agent for Human-Automation Collaboration

Trust in Flight Autonomy

Acronym: TIFAU /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Just as commercial aviation interacts with Air Traffic Management, UAVs will be part of an Unmanned Aircraft Sytem Traffic Management (UTM) ecosystem for BVLOS operations. Defining standards for this new domain must be a fast and joint collaboration between regulators and industry using simulation b...

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Trust in Flight Autonomy

Acronym: TIFAU /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Just as commercial aviation interacts with Air Traffic Management, UAVs will be part of an Unmanned Aircraft Sytem Traffic Management (UTM) ecosystem for BVLOS operations. Defining standards for this new domain must be a fast and joint collaboration between regulators and industry using simulation but also real test means for Canada to keep a strategic edge on this aviation sector.

This project focuses on elaborating standards, metrics and validation methods for operations in high Air Risk Class with group 1/2/3 UAVSs, where SWaP constraints limit the reuse of traditional systems used in traditional aviation domain.

Three works areas are identified:
- Embedded detect and avoid means
- Integration in controlled airspaces
- Human supervision of autonomous UAVs

Trajectory Based Operations - Trajectory Intent Sharing Platform

Acronym: TISP /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Modern aircraft are flying data centers, therefore the question of “Big Data” is foundational in terms of opportunity within aviation, in this case Trajectory Based Operations (TBO). Aircraft trajectories are based on various considerations while filing a flight plan, however when elemen...

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Trajectory Based Operations - Trajectory Intent Sharing Platform

Acronym: TISP /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Modern aircraft are flying data centers, therefore the question of “Big Data” is foundational in terms of opportunity within aviation, in this case Trajectory Based Operations (TBO). Aircraft trajectories are based on various considerations while filing a flight plan, however when elements of a flight change, so do the stated assumptions, which can result in environmental excess and/or inefficiencies. Bottlenecks at airports, staff shortages, air traffic control and poor weather coupled with increased congestion can cause changes to flight timetables, resulting in flight cancelations and delays.
The basis of TBO is the sharing of onboard calculated trajectory intent information with ATC to enable a coordinated effort for flight optimization.

Objectives:
- Improve Conflict Detection and Resolution (CD&R) Performance – Improve flight ETA predictions
- Improve separation management & better ATM flow management – increase ATC sector capacities
- Reduce vectoring, less CO2 production reduction in flight delays – reduce fuel burn and therefore emissions

Thermally Optimized Passenger Experience

Acronym: TOPE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: Bleed Less or Less-Bleed engine configurations are becoming prevalent to reduce the CO2 footprint, thus potentially reducing thermal cabin comfort. Similarly, with a blended wing-body (BWB) configuration to improve energy usage, cabin comfort must be revisited in such a novel aircraft configu...

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Thermally Optimized Passenger Experience

Acronym: TOPE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: Bleed Less or Less-Bleed engine configurations are becoming prevalent to reduce the CO2 footprint, thus potentially reducing thermal cabin comfort. Similarly, with a blended wing-body (BWB) configuration to improve energy usage, cabin comfort must be revisited in such a novel aircraft configuration.

Objectives:
- Develop a digital cabin rig to explore cabin flow distribution schemes in a parametric fashion, and their performance in terms of measurable passenger thermal experience. Qualitative customer feedback must be translated into thermal comfort criteria to be improved.
- The CFD process to be developed as the foundation of the digital cabin laboratory must include a defeaturing process to obtain the optimal cabin CFD geometry from the DMU or from conceptual studies and the ability to parametrize geometry for cabin comfort CFD models.
- Based on the findings, the flight test procedure and instrumentation to adequately verify the cabin comfort are to be defined.

Aluminium parts Topology Optimized Quality controlled design

Acronym: TOQA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: There is a need for simulation driven manufacturing process correlation to parts shapes, with the use of non-intrusive metrology methods for quality control of aluminium parts. Objectives: - Prediction and correlation of thermo-mechanical effects during 3D printing; - Imaging techniques for ...

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Aluminium parts Topology Optimized Quality controlled design

Acronym: TOQA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: There is a need for simulation driven manufacturing process correlation to parts shapes, with the use of non-intrusive metrology methods for quality control of aluminium parts.

Objectives:
- Prediction and correlation of thermo-mechanical effects during 3D printing;
- Imaging techniques for surface strain correlation with Finite Element Model;
- Quality oriented Design for ALM parts.

Topology Optimized Structural Components and Airframe Architecture

Acronym: TOSCA2 /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: Current tools and software allow to take mechanical constraints in FEA models, however deep understanding of FEMs and sound engineering judgment are required to ensure certifiability of the concepts and non-explicit constraints, especially when considering novel structural airframe architectu...

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Topology Optimized Structural Components and Airframe Architecture

Acronym: TOSCA2 /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs: Current tools and software allow to take mechanical constraints in FEA models, however deep understanding of FEMs and sound engineering judgment are required to ensure certifiability of the concepts and non-explicit constraints, especially when considering novel structural airframe architectures, including non-circular fuselage.

Objectives:
- Comparison between Orthogonal Stringers & Frame vs Topology Optimized driven layout;
- Assemblies of classical structure members and topology optimized driven joints;
- Design & Manufacturing feasibility of topology optimized parts.

Terrain RElative Navigation for Drones

Acronym: TReND /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Classical navigation systems for drones are dependent on GPS signal availability to operate nominally. Such systems provide degraded and eventually unusable performance when the GPS signal loss is of long duration. This project aims at adding navigation capability in position and in velocity that a...

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Terrain RElative Navigation for Drones

Acronym: TReND /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Classical navigation systems for drones are dependent on GPS signal availability to operate nominally. Such systems provide degraded and eventually unusable performance when the GPS signal loss is of long duration.

This project aims at adding navigation capability in position and in velocity that are independent to GPS and are benefiting from the drone's perception of the terrain and objects it flies over to bring additional robustness when GPS signal is lost.

The main tasks include:
1. Analysis of potential solutions
2. Selection of the best solution
3. Realization of a prototype
4. Validation of the prototype in flight on a UAV platform equipped with the UCS autopilot

Navigation solutions based on cameras, Lidar, altimeter and other relevant technologies will be considered.

CFD winds validation

Acronym: TrueWind /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need: Fluid flow experts need to develop and validate various atmospheric simulation models in the context of training. With the advent of electric vertical take-off vehicles (eVTOLs), atmospheric simulation of urban centers will be essential. These flows can affect the flight behavior of eVTOLs in ...

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CFD winds validation

Acronym: TrueWind /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need: Fluid flow experts need to develop and validate various atmospheric simulation models in the context of training. With the advent of electric vertical take-off vehicles (eVTOLs), atmospheric simulation of urban centers will be essential. These flows can affect the flight behavior of eVTOLs in the critical phases of takeoff and landing.

Objectives:
- Develop CFD algorithms to model the atmospheric environment in order to affect the flight behavior of an eVTOL to improve the realism of pilot training.
- Validate CFD solutions with experimental data from urban areas: (1) scale models; (2) sensor network installed in a real urban environment; (3) remotely piloted UAV instrumented to collect data.
- Define the optimal way to collect atmospheric data in urban areas.

Flight control software for BVLOS UAV using slowed rotor configuration (SRC)

Acronym: UAVision /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Needs - Development of flight controls for a dual compound UAV (fixed and rotating wing), slowed rotor compound - Development of tracking and detection capabilities for BVLOS flights. - Development of an embedded navigation system (companion computer) - Master all types of take-offs and landings acc...

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Flight control software for BVLOS UAV using slowed rotor configuration (SRC)

Acronym: UAVision /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Needs
- Development of flight controls for a dual compound UAV (fixed and rotating wing), slowed rotor compound
- Development of tracking and detection capabilities for BVLOS flights.
- Development of an embedded navigation system (companion computer)
- Master all types of take-offs and landings according to the infrastructure (VTOL, STOL and CTOL).

Objectives
- Management of the tiltable rotor mast, management of the aircraft attitude;
- Control of the descent speed of the drone and energy recovery during this phase of the flight;
- Seamless transition from vertical to horizontal flight;
- Autorotation and energy management (In flight and in emergency);
- Integration of optical and radar sensors;
- Integration of an on-board computer for navigation.

Unmanned Platform Development And Technology Enhancement

Acronym: UPDATE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Specific sectors require certain categories of drones (long-term surveillance, high autonomy, on-board intelligence, etc.) for which it is possible to consider developing automation and transformation processes using aircraft from General Aviation (GA) for modifications to Unmanned Aircraft S...

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Unmanned Platform Development And Technology Enhancement

Acronym: UPDATE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

Need : Specific sectors require certain categories of drones (long-term surveillance, high autonomy, on-board intelligence, etc.) for which it is possible to consider developing automation and transformation processes using aircraft from General Aviation (GA) for modifications to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Autonomous/Semi-Autonomous, piloted into optionally piloted aircraft).

Objectives :
- Analyze the degrees of autonomy achievable on existing light aircraft and/or helicopters
- Design a fast and safe technological process for transforming modes: Piloted-optionally piloted (from manned piloted into Autonomous and/or Remotely Piloted ) of these aircraft.
- Develop the processes, methods, architectures, systems, and functionalities ensuring possible unmanned flight modes from general aviation aircraft
- Test on ground an in-flight on 2 platforms : the Cessna 172/182 and the Hughes 300/ (in accordance with the standards and certifications in force including RTCA DO-178, DO-254 and DO-160)

Design of a system allowing to locate with precision the actions of users of mobile application intended for aeronautics

Acronym: Whatsup /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology

The increasing use of mobile applications in aviation brings its own set of regulatory challenges related to the integrity of data captured while performing tasks that are part of an organization's Quality Assurance System processes. Need : The mobile application must be able to guarantee the accu...

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Design of a system allowing to locate with precision the actions of users of mobile application intended for aeronautics

Acronym: Whatsup /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project

Program: Exploring Technology

The increasing use of mobile applications in aviation brings its own set of regulatory challenges related to the integrity of data captured while performing tasks that are part of an organization's Quality Assurance System processes.

Need : The mobile application must be able to guarantee the accuracy of the following information:
- Product identification
- Location (X, Y, Z or FS, WL, BL)
- Roles Skills and Qualifications
- Employee/user fit

Objective : identify, test and integrate the different technological components that allow a mobile application to :
- Geolocate the object of a task in progress and place a marker on a digital model.
- Guarantee, through a certificate, the integrity of the data from capture to final archiving.
- Guarantee that the user of the application is the employee in question.

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