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William Melek
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Research
Latest papers
Occupancy Monitoring Using BLE Beacons: Intelligent Bluetooth Virtual Door System.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
A Generic Image Processing Pipeline for Enhancing Accuracy and Robustness of Visual Odometry.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022 · senior author
Latest funding
- $108,841
Investigation of Multiple Tornado-Like Vortices for an Energy-Efficient Ventilation System with a Smart Controller
NSERC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $449,501
Towards Green Autonomous Distribution Yards
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $200,000
AI methods for CNC machines
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Occupancy Monitoring Using BLE Beacons: Intelligent Bluetooth Virtual Door System.
Koksal N, Ghannoum A, Melek W, Nieva P
A Generic Image Processing Pipeline for Enhancing Accuracy and Robustness of Visual Odometry.
Sabry M, Osman M, Hussein A, Mehrez MW, Jeon S, Melek W
Investigation of Multiple Tornado-Like Vortices for an Energy-Efficient Ventilation System with a Smart Controller
Principal investigators: Lien, Fue-Sang
Keywords: tornado-like vortex; modeling and measurement; ventilation system; energy efficiency; intelligent control; image processing
Towards Green Autonomous Distribution Yards
Principal investigators: Khajepour, Amir A
Keywords: autonomous articulated vehicles; autonomous yard trucks; cooperative perception systems; decision making; distribution yard; electrification; path planning and tracking; perception and localization; safety monitoring; tele-operation
AI methods for CNC machines
Principal investigators: Bedi, Sanjeev S
Keywords: anomaly detection; chatter; cnc machines; feature recognition; graph neural networks; lstm neural networks; machining features; solid modelling; tool breakage; transfer learning
A Human-Robot Visual-Inertial Monitoring System for Discoveries on Safe Human-Autonomy Interactions in Dynamic Environments
Principal investigators: Hashemi, Ehsan
Design of Flexible Modular Manipulators for Applications involving Human Machine Interaction
Principal investigators: Melek, William
Keywords: modular robots; machine intelligence; human machine interaction; probabilistic road map planners; intelligent control
Development and implementation of a control loop for connections in the progressive die process
Principal investigators: Worswick, Michael
Optimizing Hybrid Electric Powertrains for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV)
Principal investigators: Fraser, Roydon RA
Extended UAV-based sensing for mapping in support of ground vehicles
Principal investigators: Melek, William
MOST - Task-relevant perception and control for human-oriented operation of mobile manipulators in*semi-structured environments
Principal investigators: Jeon, Soo
Shared Decision Making and Progressive Automation for Manufacturing Assembly
Principal investigators: Smith, Stephen
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Patricia Nieva and William Melek: 1 shared paper
- William Melek and Soo Jeon: 1 shared paper
- Mehanical and Mechatronics Engineering
- Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics
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