ENSTA Bretagne

ENSTA Bretagne (DGA ANR Astride “Saint Cyber“) collaboration in the framework of ANR ASTRIDE Saint Cyber, 2019-2022 around the Methods and Systems for the protection against electronic attacks. Our contributions focus on the methods of analysis and identification of LPI signals. This collaboration started in 2007 in the framework of MRIS (Mission de Recherche et Innovation Scientific) by definition of instantaneous phase analysis concept for LPI signal characterization. Also, another collaboration, between 2008-2011, concerned the MODE (Méthodes d’Observation Discrète de l’Environnement) aimed to propose new methods of acoustic observation of underwater environment. MODE project has been founded by SHOM – Service hydrographique et océanographique de la Marine.

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  Example of result of time-frequency tracking of marine mamal vocalization

University of Toulouse

University of Toulouse, Institut de Recherches en Astrophysique et Planétologie - UMR 5277 - IRAP- Professor Yannick DEVILLE - jointly supervised thesis of Razvan SCRIPCARU, in collaboration with ENSTA Bretagne (Professor Ali MANSOUR): Système de transmissiOn Sécurisée basé sur la séparation de sources Quantiques (SOSQuant).

University of Toulon

• ECA Groupe Toulon and LIS laboratory, University of Toulon (jointly supervised thesis of Laurent VERRIER): Improvement of multibeam sonars by exploiting the Doppler effect

  

EDF R&D and DTG

Since 2007, collaborations on the theme of "Signal processing and applications in the fields of estimation of physical acoustic parameters". Several research contracts, in particular a thesis under co-supervision (Ion Candel, 2011-2014) as well as numerous publications: 3 journals and more than 10 conference papers. More than 10 PhD students and master students have been actively involved in this collaboration. As important achievements I mention here the acoustic antenna and the distributed sensing systems of power networks – see two examples below:

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  Wide band reconfigurable Acoustic Antenna

  

  Distributed sensing of power network

Another important achievement is issued from the collaboration with EDF DTG in 2017 aiming to define acoustic inspection methods for the detection of ice corks in the water pipes. For this purpose, a reduced scale experimental facility has been constructed at ISEE platform:

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  ISEE platform : reduced scale experimental facility for ice corks detection in pipes

This platform is fully used for educational purposes: two teaching modules (Diagnostic and Surveillance of Energy Systems) of M2 program of ASI and SICOM students use annually this platform for project-oriented labworks associated to these modules.

Current works concerns the AI systems for turbine efficiency monitoring as well as AI system for electrical machine surveillance, both of them being subject of potential patent pending.

Thalès Underwater Systems

Sophia Antipolis: Two CIFRE theses (Alexis Mours, 2014-2017 and Pedro Martins, 2015-2018), in the field of the applications of non-stationary signal processing methods in the context of SONAR systems - classification and localization.

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Institut Carnot Energies du Futur

Leader of the Arc Locator project (2011-2015), in collaboration with G2ELab, intended to set up a distributed system for locating electric arc sources. Popularization of the results of this work through participation in the RDV Carnot exhibition, Paris (November 2015) and the article “Energies du futur detects and locates electric arcs”, published in the review “Les Institut Carnot - la recherche pour les companies ”, June 2015 (pp. 32-33). Later, in 2015, the DEMALOC project has been devoted to define the prototype of the concepts developed in Arc Locator project. This prototype inspired also a part of the labworks equipment of the ISEE platform. All these achievements are also at the origin of the Translocator project.

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  Presentation of DEMALOC at Days of Institut Carnot Energies du Futur, 2016

  

  Labwork equipment inspired by ArcLocator/Demaloc project

• Youtube Video: Multi-modal detection and localisation of electrical arcs

Institut Carnot “Logiciel et Systèmes d’Information"

Leader of the UTHIM (UTHIM –Ultrasonic Tomography for Hydro Instantionnarities Monitoring) project, 2017, aiming to design a software system for the measurement of hydro dynamics parameters. The project has been conducted in correlation with ASDA project leaded by LEGI laboratory. The main achievement is the design of a cavitation detection method based on instantaneous frequency analysis and an experimental prototype built in the Hydro Signal platform.

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  GUI of the software for cavitation sensing realized in the UTHIM project

LEGI

LEGI (co-supervision of the theses of Irina Murgan, 2015-2018 and Ivan Montero, 2019-2022). The collaboration is defined around the definition of the signal processing methodology of the analysis of turbulent/cavitating water flows. The different signal analysis techniques are continuously validated in an experimental facility composed by the ultrasound multi sensor configurations

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  Multi sensing system of the cavitating phenomena

IMEP LHAC

IMEP LHAC, ANR Australe: Authentification Unitaire Sécurisée dans les domaines THz et RFs and jointly supervised thesis of Dragos Nastasiu (2020-2023): Développement de solutions pour l’identification (THID) et l’authentification par des approches non intrusives dans le domaine THz

CEA Grenoble

Diplôme de Recherche technologique (DRT) Jawad DAHMANI, 2010-2012 : Système de détection d’arcs électriques dans une batterie, in collaboration with Viviane CATTIN, CEA LETI.

2019, Technical referent of Loic Argentier internship to CEA SyMMES laboratory on the topic of Python programming for data streaming from an oscilloscope to PC, in collaboration with Camille RAILLON

G2ELab

Current collaboration for the development of TRANSLOCATOR concept – see Start-ups

SCHNEIDER, Grenoble

Two thesis jointly supervised - CIFRE – Costin VASILE, 2015-2018 and Kevin DAYET, 2016-2020.

ITER Systems Annecy

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  Experimentation of thesis proposal in a real configuration in Annecy lake