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Soft Defects Diagnosis in wired networks – SODDA
In thirty years, the cable length in cars was multiplied by ten, now more than 4000 meters. In a modern car, one counts up to 100 sensors and 1800 connections: the interconnection network is regarded by manufacturers as a weak part of modern vehicles. The increase in complexity is accompanied by the
VErtical cavity Surface emission laser operating in deep UV rangE – VESUVE
Recent progress in highly sensitive optical transducers has led to the development of optical sensors of chemicals and bio-molecules, with applications in diverse fields including clinical diagnosis, bio-molecular engineering, drug design, environmental control, and the food industry. Along with vis
GEOmetry and algebra of Linear Matrix Inequalities with control applications – GEOLMI
# Geometry of determinantal varieties # Positive polynomials # Computational algebraic geometry # Semidefinite programming # Systems control applications The GeoLMI project aims at developing an algebraic and geometric study of linear matrix inequalities (LMI) for systems control theory. It
Contribution of wave chaos theory to the study and the optimisation of reverberation chambers – CAOREV
A connection will make between the studies of chaotic cavities and the ones of reverberation chambers and advantage will be take of their similarities at theoretical and experimental levels. The knowledge of chaotic cavities will be extended (from 2D to 3D cavities, influence of losses), optimizatio
Hamiltonian Methods for the control of multidomain distributed parameter systems – HAMECMOPSYS
The control of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, represented by systems of coupled Partial Differential Equations, is subject to a recently growing interest due to two major impulses. Firstly recent technological progress in material sciences induce an increased use of complex and heterogeneou
Non Stationary and Multifractal Statistical Analyses of Per Partum Fetal Heart Rate for Asphyxia Diagnosis – FETUSES
Per partum fetal asphyxia (or acidosis) constitutes the third cause for neonatal morbidity and is responsble for a third of neonatal encephalopathies in term neonates. It is consecutive to a major perturbation of the fetal oxygenation process. To avoid fetal cerebral lesions induced by severe ox
Ultra-Stable micro-wave/THzr Oscillator – OSMOTUS
The project goal is the realization and demonstration of ultra-low phase noise oscillators. This is a key for high rate -high bandwidth efficiency telecommunications, ultra-high resolution spectroscopy of molecules, or other industrial needs. To come: - two dual frequency dual polarization lasers
NEuroMorphic hardwarE for Smart vIsion Sensor – NEMESIS
Smart vision circuits are expected to extract high-level information from visual scenes. The main focus of these intelligent retinas is not to provide the highest image quality, but high level information on the image, and be a building block for object recognition and image understanding with many
Miniaturized All Solid-state Terahertz HEterodyne Receiver for security applications – MASTHER
MASTHER aims at showing the feasibility of a complete and compact system, at moderate cost for remote detection of objects in the THz region, in the context of civil security, for instance. To reach this goal, partial objectives, with their own obstacles, can be related to the various constitutive e
Towards efficient sliding-mode control: chattering reducton, disturbance rejection and numerical toolbox – ChaSliM
This project has three main goals: 1) the development of novel techniques for sliding mode control, 2) experimental test of these discontinuous feedback laws on available setups, 3) development of a software platform (a toolbox) for the simulation of systems controlled by sliding modes. Expected res
Accurate and Rapid Robots with large Operational Workspace – ARROW
The ANR project ARROW deals with the technological problems that limit the productivity of robots when used for some industrial applications and with the validation of theoretical results by experimental tests. These applications require a very good accuracy and high acceleration capacities. ARROW i
Smart Blocks: A MEMS-based modular and self-reconfigurable surface for fast conveying of fragile objects and medicinal products – Smart Blocks
Sorting and conveying objects are two tasks necessary for production lines. Lots of different methods exist to perform these tasks but most of them require a contact between the conveyor and the transported objects. For that reason, fragile objects can be damaged by manipulations whereas clean produ
Group IV laser based on n-type and tensile-strained germanium – GRAAL
Germanium laser under optical and electrical injection Germanium laser The GRAAL project proposes to develop a completely new approach to demonstrate a laser source on silicon by using pure germanium, a group IV element and an indirect band gap material, as the gain medium. The interest of using g
Left hand millimetre wave devices for the detection of the primordial gravitational waves – COSMOS
The detection of the primordial gravity waves is one of the most exciting challenges in nowadays experimental physics. One way to achieve that is to measure the so called B-modes of polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. However, an important lack in microwave devices technology limits our