Research projects
EADS Group Corporate Foundation launch its annual call for research projects, the purpose of which is to support and promote high level research projects covering exploratory and original subjects. Ten projects are selected. The allocated budget by project reached in average 150,000 euros.
To date, the EADS Corporate Foundation has supported over 110 upstream research projects.
Robotics, man-machine interactive systems, autonomy
Zeuxis
This project focuses on human movement and encompasses three synergistic realms of research: Natural movement, in particular locomotion and sensory-motor control, applying original methods from the engineering sciences and involving close cooperation between Neurosciences teams at LPPA (a perception and action physiology lab in Paris) and CERCO (a brain and cognition centre in Toulouse) teams to identify human sensory-motor movement...
CARS - Context Aware Robotized Surgery
CARS is a project that involves engineering high-level controls for robotic surgery systems. One such system, da Vinci®, is a laparoscopy surgery assistant robot system that controls an endoscope with a camera and surgical instruments...
Interpretation of biological sensor signals for artificial skeletal muscle control
The project falls within the context of neuroprosthetics and more specifically of implanted functional electrical stimulation (FES)...
Modelling and simulating conflict detection on radar by air traffic controllers
The purpose of the project is model the conflict detection activity of air traffic controllers based on information available on a radar screen. In other terms, how do air traffic controllers diagnose the possibility of collision between two aircraft...
Environment, sustainable development in the area of transport
Mozaic Airborne Datasets to study the heat wave that hit Europe in 2003
This project involves using commercial aircraft (A340s) to monitor air quality, based on Mozaic datasets and the 2003 heat wave...
Biomolecule synthesis by heat activation methods such as microwaves
The purpose of this project is to develop synthetic methods that do not require the use of an organic solvent, either during the reaction itself, or during the purification step...
Experimentation and modelling of instabilities in acoustically controlled combustion chamberss
The project related to the control of combustion stability in areas of practical interest (Aeronautics, Energy production, Process industry)...
TESEER - Design and creation of a thermoelectric/thermoionic energy micro-source optimized by electromagnetic radiation in the visible and mid-infrared range.
Project: TESEER - Design and creation of a thermoelectric/thermoionic energy micro-source optimized by electromagnetic radiation in the visible and mid-infrared range...
Security and safety
OVMI - Objet Volant Mimant l'Insecte
Le projet OVMI, Object Volant Mimant l'Insecte, vise à la réalisation d'un nano-drone à ailes vibrantes de la taille d'un insecte volant (1-2cm) capable d'imiter son vol battu. Le projet s'articule autour de deux laboratoires, l'IEMN et l'Onera: l'IEMN conçoit, réalise et optimise structurellement les prototypes, tandis que l'Onera développe un modèle aéroélastique afin d'aider la conception de prototypes et d'optimiser leurs performances aérodynamiques.
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Silicon-microbeam chemical microsensors to monitor air quality and detect explosives
This project involves developing a dedicated autonomous handheld system using chemical MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System) microsensors, which detect a wide variety of analytes...
Large Eddy Simulation of non-premixed reactive flows
This project shows the potential behind Large Eddy Simulation (LES) to predict non-premixed reactive swirl flows in model combustion chambers...
Cryptographic hash function security
Hash functions are ubiquitous cryptographic primitives used to calculate a "fingerprint" of the input data...
energy
Contribution to the study of MoO3 powders used as cathode materials for lithium batteries: influence of particle morphology and size
Contribution to the study of MoO3 powders used as cathode materials for lithium batteries: influence of particle morphology and size...
Digital microfluidic systems for the directed evolution of catalysts for biofuel cells
Our final goal is to built a functionnal bio-fuel cell using enzymes as redox catalysts at the anode and cathode. To achieve this goal the key points are a high catalitic activity of these enzimes at high ethanol concentrations, broad pH and temperature variations and their stability at the interface with the electrodes...
Laser control of microfluidic droplets
This project led to the development of technology enabling laser control of microfluidic droplets (a few nanolitres in volume). These droplets are dealt with as chemical reactors that could be used to miniaturise, automate and integrate operations that are currently carried out in laboratories, in a manner analogous to that whereby IT operations were miniaturised when electronic chips were invented...
Plasma synthesis and deposition of hydrogenated silicon nanocrystals for the production of hydrogenated polymorphous silicon solar cells
The challenge is to improve the stability of hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells. The final objective is to find the optimal experimental conditions to produce polymorphous solar cells with the highest efficiency and lowest efficiency loss...
Information Technologies and Sciences
Project Solving challenging problem in feedback control
This upstream research project mainly involves developing new algorithmic methods for feedback control law synthesis in linear time-invariant systems...
Statistical methods to the rescue of machine translation
In a world where the globalisation of services and rampant international tourism has moved international exchanges centre-stage, the language barrier is becoming a serious handicap. That explains why the Parole-Parole machine-translation project makes sense...
Accurate and automatic three-dimensional modelling of urban scenes from digital photographs
Precise and automatic three-dimensional modelling of urban scenes from digital photographs...
Resolution improvement of infra-red images obtained from bolometers by using image stacks
The project initially consisted in formulating the problem of super-resolution in the context of images of a mobile object acquired by a single sensor...
Odyssee Project - Multi-scale investigation of cognitive function and visual perception
Odyssee Project - Multi-scale investigation of cognitive function and visual perception
This research project focused mainly on the following three topics...
Photonic devices based on electro-optic materials
The project aims at developing polymer-based photonic devices. These devices are for example optical modulators, or microresonator-based components. They are destined to optical telecommunications but also can be used for sensing systems. The main objective is to design, fabricate and characterize prototypes of these components in order to achieve perspective industrial developments. The application possibilities are also underlined...
Robust control of uncertain non-linear systems
The aim is to develop a systematic approach to the robust control of dynamic systems described by non-linear differential equations, by integrating advances in LPV (linear parameter variant) control...
Robust control in a non-linear context for broad operating ranges
Many dynamic systems possess rapidly changing parameters, with a significant and non-linear effect on their dynamic behaviour...
Means of transport and mobility-enhancing systems
Mesoscale simulation of condensation trails in aircraft slipstreams
This project aim is to elucidate and simulate aircraft slipstream dynamics and it involved development a simulation strategy spanning all the chemical and dynamic scales from near field to mesoscale...
Embedded systems based on model-driven engineering for specification and heterogeneous systems
This project is based on synchronous programming languages implementing a specific calculation and concurrence model facilitating embedded software design using effective compilation and testing techniques...
Direct digital simulation on a supercomputer
Direct digital simulation (DDS) is an effective tool for conducting fundamental studies and for validating models, though it remains costly and frequently limited to simple geometries...
Disruptive technologies, groundbreaking prospects and new scientific paradigms, and transfer to aerospace technology
Room temperature spin-electronic using novel semiconductors
This project’s goal is to explore the potential of new large-gap semiconductor materials (GaN, InGaN, ZnO) for emerging applications such as spin electronics and quantum information processing...
PILE - International program for Child language
PILE is a project aiming to deepen our understanding of the process that leads to the construction and emergence of spoken language in children...
Gas sensor based on noble metal nanoparticles
Amongst the great diversity of sensors, resistive sensors have undergone considerable development over the past ten years...