Monday 16 July:

8h - 10h15 - Registration

10h15 - 10h30 - Welcome Address - Prof. Bertrand Raquet, Director of INSA

10h30 - 12h - Openning Keynote: Cyberphysical Systems as Enabler of Industry 4.0 - Dr. Robert Plana - CTO Assystem

12h - 14h - Lunch

14 h - 17h Session 1 : Smart Sensors for CPS . Chair: Prof. Jeremie Grisolia

14h - 14h45 : Electro-mechanical resonant de-icing systems - Dr.Marc Budinger, ICA /INSA-Toulouse ; Dr. Valerie Budinger, ISAE-SUPAERO, France

Abstract : Recent research is showing growing interest in low-power electromechanical de-icing systems and, in particular, de-icing systems based on piezoelectric actuators. These systems use the vibrations generated by piezoelectric actuators at resonance frequencies to produce shear stress at the interface between the ice and the support or to produce tensile stress in the ice. The presentation introduces to aircraft ice protection systems, the modeling of such piezoelectric systems, the importance of fracture propagation and will show some experimental results.

Bio: Marc Budinger is associate professor at INSA and researcher at Institut Clément Ader in Toulouse. He got in 1998 the Agregation degree in Applied Physics, in 2003 the Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse and in 2014 the HdR in Mechanical Engineering from Toulouse University. His research activities have included design of electrical submarine propulsion motor, piezoelectric actuators and MEMS. His current research topic deals with the preliminary design of aerospace electromechanical actuators.

14h45 - 15h30 From sensors to IoT implementation – a multidisciplinary and challenging endeavor - Dr. Octavian Buiu - Institut de Microtechnologies, Romania

Abstract: The development and implementation of an IoT application is a complex process, requiring a multidisciplinary approach, involving highly trained specialists, with a common understanding upon the means and processes to be developed  and implemented. The lecture will cover some of the main topics related to the design, development and implementation of  an IoT apllication: sensing principles and main characteristics; sensors – consumer vs. industrial grade and the role of standards; smart sensors; general, layer type, architectures for IoT, exploitation and monetization. Two examples will be covered; the first one refers to the issues related to structural health monitoring related to equipment used in coal mines, while the second will investigate the safety issues related to the safe and efficient functioning of chemical plants and highlight the complexity of the system which needs to be put in place, to address all challenges. Presentation will underline the multidisciplinary effort which is needed in order to accomplish such projects, an effort supported by excellent communication and understanding of customer’s requirements.

Bio: Octavian Buiu is a graduate of the Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest (specialization: Nuclear Materials and Fuels), with a PhD in Atomic and Molecular Physics awarded by the “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj in 1998. Octavian has more than 30 years’ experience in research and development, in private and public institutions: R&D Institute for Nuclear Power Reactors, R&D Institute for Electronic Components, Institute of Microtechnology (currently National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies), and Honeywell Romania (Sensors and Wireless Laboratory) - Romania. Between 1997 and 2007, he worked in United Kingdom as research associate, fellow, and senior fellow at De Montfort University (Leicester) and University of Liverpool (Liverpool). In 2002 he has appointed as Lecturer in Electrical Eng. Department, University of Liverpool. Throughout his career, Octavian served as deputy scientific director at IMT Bucharest (1994-1997), Portfolio Manager and Senior Technology Manager at Honeywell Romania – Advanced Technology (2007-2014 and 2014-2017, respectively). He is co-founder and CEO of BIS INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT, a start-up established in 2017 which is active in the field of consulting for sensors, smart systems, and IoT applications.Octavian has more than 70 papers in ISI journals, as well as more than 100 papers and presentations at National and International Conferences, covering topics related to thin films synthesis and characterization, electronic devices architectures, sensors. He is author and co-author in 20 book chapters and co-author of 23 granted US and EU patents; Octavian is an IEEE and American Vacuum Society member.

15h30 - 16h Coffee and tea break

16h - 16h45 Electronic glasses and visual health - Dr. Henri Camon, director of OPERA Joint lab between CNRS and Essilor, LAAS-CNRS,  and Dr. Jessica Combier OPERA and LAAS-cNRS

17h - 19h - Welcome Reception

Tuesday 17 July:

9h - 12h Session 2: Communication for CPS. Chair: Dr. Olivier Bernal, LAAS-CNRS

9h - 10h System and circuit techniques for indoor localization - Prof. Alessandra Costanzo - University of Bologna, Italy

Abstract: This lecture is dedicated to introduce some novel  approaches for objects and  people tracking in real-time, exploiting the RFID technology and cooperative nodes. In particular a system for 3-D localization in indoor environment of elderly people is  presented, based on a custom design of an  RFID reader augmented with the mono-pulse RADAR capabilities and embedded in everyday life objects. As an alternative approach passive localization exploiting the UWB technologies based on anchor nodes is also discussed and the two solutions are compared.

Bio: Alessandra Costanzo (M’99-SM’13) joined the University of Bologna as associate professor in 2001. Her research activities have been dedicated to CAD algorithms for multi-domain co-design and modeling of active nonlinear microwave/RF circuits, including rigorous models of the radiating elements and of the propagation channels. She has carried out designs of MIMO, UWB and RFID systems and of highly innovative multi-band rectennas, specialized for wearable applications. She is now involved in research activities related to the wireless power transmission technologies, adopting both far-field and near-field solutions, for several power needs, operating frequencies and application scenarios, namely powering of energy autonomous sensor nodes and charging of portable devices. She authored more than 150 scientific publications on peer reviewed international journals and conferences, and several chapter books. She owns three international patents. Dr. Costanzo is being serving in several committees in the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S). She is past vice-chair and past-chair of the technical committee MTT-26 (Wireless Energy Transfer and Conversion). She is Associate Editor of Microwave Theory and Techniques Steering committee chair of the new IEEE Journal on RFID and serves as reviewer for many IEEE Transactions. She was co-founder of the EU COST action IC1301 WiPE “Wireless power transfer for sustainable electronics” where she chairs WG1: “far-field wireless power transfer”.

10h - 11h The Design Challenges of IoT: from System Technologies to Ultra-Low Power Circuits- Dr. Xiao Yan Wang - IMEC, Belgium

Abstract: In order to realize an Internet-of-Things (IoT) with tiny sensors integrated in our buildings, our clothing, and the public spaces, battery lifetime and battery size remain major challenges. Power reduction in IoT sensor nodes is determined by both sleep mode as well as active mode contributions. A power state machine, at the system level, is the key to achieve ultra-low average power consumption by alternating the system between active and sleep modes efficiently. While, power consumption in the active mode remains dominant, other power contributions like for timekeeping in standby and sleep conditions are becoming important as well. A 2.4GHz multi-standard radio is presented, as a test case, with an average power consumption in the µW range, and state-of-the-art performance across a voltage supply range from 1.2V to 0.9V

Bio: Xiaoyan Wang received her M.S. and Ph.D degrees from National University of Singapore in 2002 and Technical University of Denmark in 2004, respectively. She has been working with Huawei Technologies in China, Infineon Technologies in Germany and Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore from 1997 to 2008. Since 2008, she works with Holst Centre/imec as a senior researcher and her current research interest is ultra-low-power radio design for IoT platform.

11h - 11h15 Coffee and Tea Break

11h15 - 12h15 Substrate Integrated Technologies for Emerging Millimeterwave Communication and Sensing Systems - Dr. Anthony Ghiotto - IMS Bordeaux, France

Abstract: In this presentation, the recently proposed substrate integrated technologies will be introduced with a focus on emerging hollowed printed circuit board (PCB) alternative technologies intended for future high performance and compact communication and sensing Systems on Substrate (SoS). Such technologies are of high interest for 5G and autonomous vehicle applications. The speaker believes that these low cost technologies will contribute to the democratization of the millimeter-wave spectrum.

Bio: Anthony Ghiotto (S’05-M’09-SM’15) was born in Aubenas, France, in 1982. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (both with distinction) in optics, optoelectronics, and microwave engineering from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. From 2009 to 2012, he has held a Post-Doctoral Research Associate position at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. In 2012, he joined the Department of Electronics of the ENSEIRB-MATMECA engineering school from the Bordeaux Institute of Technology and the Laboratory of Integration from Materials to Systems (IMS) from the University of Bordeaux, where he is currently an Associate Professor (with Full Professor habilitation). In 2016 and 2017, he has been a Guest Professor at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. He was a recipient of the Young Scientist Award of the International Union of Radio Science in 2008, the Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Merit Scholarship Program for Foreign Students of the Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies of Québec in 2009, and IEEE SPI Young Investigator Training Program Award in 2016 and 2017. His current research interests include the analysis, design and integration of microwave and millimeter wave passive and active circuits in PCB (including SIW and Air-Filled SIW), dielectric waveguide, BiCMOS and CMOS technologies.

Dr. Ghiotto is the TPC Chair of the 2019 European Microwave Conference (EuMC). He is an Associate Editor of the EuMA International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies and a technical reviewer for the IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transaction on Antenna and Propagation, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters and the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. Dr. Ghiotto is a member of the Technical Coordinating Committee (TCC), the MTT-8 Filters and Passive Components Technical Committee and the MTT-15 Microwave Field Theory Committee of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technique Society (MTT-S). Since 2017, he is the chair of the IEEE MTT French chapter. Since 2013, he is the Counselor of the IEEE Student Branch of Bordeaux: the BEE Branch, and the advisor of the MTT and AP BEE Branch Chapters. He was a Member of the Organization Committee of the 2015 European Microwave Week and the 2015 French National Microwave Days.

12h30 - 14h Lunch

14h - 17h30 Session 3 : Communication and Security for CPS. Chair: Prof. Vincent Nicomette, INSA Toulouse / LAAS-CNRS

14h -15h The upcoming explosion of IoT Connectivity for cyber-physical systems - Nicolas Damour - Sierra Wireless

Abstract: Ten years ago, a number of radio technologies started to emerge to deliver the promise of Low Power Wide Area wireless communications. Some were developed by only one or a couple of companies, some took the longer path of standardization; some were quick to establish themselves, some were slower; some gained wide traction and adoption, some are still struggling to establish themselves on the market. LPWA communication technologies based on our usual cellular networks have been deployed commercially as far back as 2016 for some countries, but 2018 is really the year where most developed countries, including France, are launching them. In this presentation, we will see what constitutes the core elements of these technologies, and most importantly reflect on the massive opportunity this represents for the wider emergence of cyber-physical systems.

Bio: Nicolas Damour is Director for Technology Partnership Development at Sierra Wireless. He is responsible for innovation projects with industry partners and for relationships with mobile network operators in Europe, Middle East and Africa, to position Sierra Wireless as a partner of choice for fully integrated device-to-cloud solutions for the IoT. As such, he is also active in several industry and standardization groups, currently chairman of the GSMA IoT Terminal Steering Group and vice-chairman of the Board of Directors at the Open Mobile Alliance.

15h - 16h Online and Scalable Unsupervised Network Anomaly Detection Method - Dr. Philippe Owezarski - LAAS-CNRS

Abstract: Nowadays, network intrusion detectors mainly rely on knowledge databases to detect suspicious traffic. These databases have to be continuously updated which requires important human resources and time. Unsupervised network anomaly detectors overcome this issue by using “intelligent” techniques to identify anomalies without any prior knowledge. However, these systems are often very complex as they need to explore the network traffic to identify flows patterns. Therefore, they are often unable to meet real-time requirements. In this paper, we present a new Online and Real-time Unsupervised Network Anomaly Detection Algorithm. Our solution relies on a discrete time-sliding window to update continuously the feature space and an incremental grid clustering to detect rapidly the anomalies. The evaluations showed that this algorithm can process online large network traffic while ensuring a low detection delay and good detection performance. The experiments performed on real traffic demonstrated that our algorithm detects in less than half a second an anomaly after its occurrence. Furthermore, the results highlight that our solution outperforms in terms of TPR and FPR existing techniques reported in the literature.

Bio: Philippe Owezarski is director of research at CNRS (the French center for scientific research), working at LAAS (Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems), in Toulouse, France. He got a PhD in computer science in 1996 from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse III, and habilitation for advising research in 2006. His main interests deal with next generation Internet. More specifically Philippe Owezarski takes advantage of IP networks monitoring for enforcing Quality of Service and security. It especially focuses on techniques as machine learning and data mining on the big data collected from the networks for making the network related analytics autonomous and cognitive. Last, Philippe Owezarski started working on the deployment of SDN technology on IXP networks.

16h-16h30 Coffee and tea break

16h30 - 17h30 Deep learning-based channel decoding of short packets: an IoT opportunity - Dr. Meryem Bennamar - ISAE Toulouse, France

Abstract: In this talk, we investigate the design of novel error correction coding solutions for short packet transmissions based on deep learning. In particular, we focus on the design of neural networks based channel decoders and investigate the effect of some design meta-parameters (training statistic, network size,...). Based on a surrogate loss on the sequence detection task, we demonstrate the existence of an optimal training statistic which allows the network to generalize better to other channel statistics unseen during training. The results are assessed with examples of Polar codes on binary input memoryless channels.

Bio: Meryem Benammar obtained the engineering (2011) degree, a M.S (2011) degree in electrical engineering from Supelec (now CentraleSupelec ), and the PhD (2014) degree in Telecommunications also from Supelec under the supervision of Prof. Pablo Piantanida. From 2014 to 2017, she was a researcher with the Mathematics and Algorithmic Sciences Lab of Huawei Technologies in Paris. Since 2017, she is an associate professor with the Department of Electronics, Optronics and Signal Processing (DEOS) of ISAE Supaéro in Toulouse. Her research interests lie essentially in Information Theory and its various interactions with communications ( error correction coding, multi-terminal communications, interference management, ...), with source coding ( distributed compression, rate distortion theory, ...), with security ( physical layer security, wiretap coding, secret key generation,...), and since recently, other interactions with statistical learning (deep learning, generalization bounds,...).

Wednesday 18 July:

9h - 12h Session 4 : Security for CPS. Chair. Dr. Mohamed Kaaniche, LAAS-CNRS

9h - 10h30 Design and Verification of Safe and Secure VLSI Systems - Prof. Juan-Carlos Ruiz - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia - France

Abstract: Current embedded VLSI systems are widespread and operate in multitude of applications in different markets, ranging from life support, industrial control, or avionics to consumer electronics. It is unquestionable that critical systems require different degrees of fault tolerance and security, given the human lives or great investments at stake, but nowadays the lack of robustness exhibited by consumer products (against unexpected failures and attacks) can also undermine their success in the marketplace and negatively affect the reputation of the manufacturer.

On the one hand, current practices for the design and deployment of hardware fault and intrusion-tolerance techniques remain in practice specific (defined on a case-per-case basis) and mostly manual and error prone. This situation is aggravated by considerations relating to time-to-market costs that promote the reuse and integration of (black- and white-box) IP cores developed by third and sometimes untrusted parties. This seminar addresses the challenging problems of engineering HW fault tolerance strategies in a generic way and supporting their subsequent instantiation. This approach relies on metaprogramming to specify fault tolerance mechanisms and open compilation to automate their deployment on target cores.

On the other hand, the assessment, verification, optimization and selection (benchmarking) of resulting HW implementations is far from being properly supported by existing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools when dependability becomes an important design concern. This seminar will address this situation with efficiency and flexibility in mind. It will be explained how, and to what extent, the HW implementation and analysis phases can be customized while relying on existing off-the-self languages, synthesis, mapping, placement and routing tools and technology-dependent libraries. Three different embedded processor models will be used to exemplify how the aforementioned challenges can be addressed in practice when considering FPGAs as final implementation devices.

Bio: Juan Carlos Ruiz received the MS degree in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 1998, and a Ph.D. from the Institut National Polytechnique of Toulouse (INPT) in 2002. In February 2003, Dr. Ruiz integrated the Fault-Tolerant Systems Research Group (GSTF) of the UPV. From that date, he has participated in a number of national and international research and technology transfer projects, like the IST-2000-25425 DBench project (focused on Dependability Benchmarking), and the EUREKA-Celtic CP3-011 RED project (focused on the definition and automatic deployment of reactions to attacks in IP-based systems). His current research concerns the evaluation of embedded systems in general, and HW designs in particular, using fault injection techniques, and the design and deployment of adaptive mechanisms for fault tolerance using Open compilation and HW reconfiguration. He serves regularly as Program Committee in some of the most important conferences related to dependability, such as the European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) and the IFIP/IEEE Dependable Systems and Networks Conference (DSN). He is author of more that 60 scientific papers that has been published in the most relevant journals (like IEEE Trans. on Computers, IEEE Trans. on VLSI or IEEE Trans. on Ad hoc Networks), and conferences (such as DSN, FPL, EDCC, PRDC, SRDS, LADC or NCA) of his research domain. He combines his investigation with teaching relating computer architectures, mobile computing and security. He is currently associate professor at the Department of Computer Engineering of the School of Computer Science, where he also leads the Degree on Cybersecurity of the UPV’s school of Computer Science. He is also an active member of the Spanish platform of Security and Trust Technologies (eSeC) and the IFIP SIG 10.4 on Dependability Benchmarking.

10h30 - 11h - Coffee and tea break

11h - 12h Security Testing Software in Embedded Systems - Dr. Aurelien Francillon - EURECOM

Abstract: Security testing software is a very active field and finding bugs in software can be done with multiple approaches and for various purposes. The goal may be to test software during development phase, or testing phase, where all information about the system is known (source code, system design). This can also be performed as a black box, when very little information is available (binary only analysis). This is the case when the testing is performed by an external entity, e.g., to find bugs to exploit them. This talk will highlight why it is difficult to perform such tests in embedded systems, in particular when they interact a lot whit custom hardware and the physical world. We will cover several of the different options (with/without hardware, with or without source) and present some recent results in improving testing for embedded devices.

Bio: Aurélien Francillon is an assistant professor in the Networking and Security department at EURECOM in the System and Software Security group (http://s3.eurecom.fr). Before this he received PhD degree in 2009 from INRIA and Grenoble INP, then he was a postdoctoral researcher in the System Security Group at ETH Zurich. He is mainly interested in practical aspects of the security of embedded devices. In this context he has worked on topics such as software security, wireless security, hardware support for software security, bug finding techniques as well as on broader security and privacy topics. He served in many program committees, was program co-chair of CARDIS 2013 and is part of the steering committees of WOOT and CARDIS.

12h - 13h30 Lunch

13h30 - 15h Extracting valuable data from a secure element - Dr. Jean-Louis Lanet - INRIA

Abstract : Secure element are probably the most secure object which implement the concept of secure by design. Nevertheless a precise analysis bring to the fore several weaknesses in one device. In this presentation we explain how one can exploits a sequence of vulnerabilities such that he can recover secret data. We will start withe recovering the code of the firmware, then reversing the data structure and then the code. Reverse engineering is a hard task in particular when the instruction set is unknown. We present a method to infer the semantics of the instruction set.

Bio: Jean-Louis Lanet leads the High Security Labs (LHS) of INRIA Rennes since 2014. He was Professor at the University of Limoges (2007-2014) at the Computer Science department. He was also associate professor of the University of Sherbrooke. He has been in charge of the Security and Cryptology course of the USTH Master (Hanoi). His research interests included the security of small systems like smart cards, but also software engineering and in particular formal methods. Prior to that, he was senior researcher at Gemplus Research Labs (1996-2007) the smart card manufacturer. He was researcher at the Advanced Studies Labs of Elecma, Electronic division of the Snecma, now part of the Safran group. He has worked on hard real time techniques for jet engine control (1984-1995).

15h - 16 h From Cyber Physical Systems to Autonomous & Intelligent Systems in the Factory 4.0.   -  Yannick Fourastier - Head of Industry 4.0 Digital Solutions and Services, Bombardier

Abstract: The industrial layout digital transformation varies by the industry profile. Industry operations and operations of critical infrastructures are concerned by IIoT and automation new technologies. A huge gap separates the current reality to marketing phantasms but also to the idea most academics can imagine regarding Industry 4.0. First part of the contribution introduces to the Industry 4.0 standard. It distinguishes the Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) of late Industry 3.0 and the Autonomous & Intelligent Systems (A/IS) of the Industry 4.0. This disruptive transformation scales up from physical flow to cognition automation. A painting cell showcase illustrates what means the transformation of the industrial process as-a-system-of-systems. The second part of the contribution brings the IIoT-ized landscape to the cognition level. The cognitive digital twin description introduces then to the algorithmic system planning in the Factory 4.0. The cognitive digital twin comes with specific algorithmic biases. Their neutralizing is a challenge. However, the systems of industrial CPS's and such A/IS require transparency and to demonstrate trustworthiness. The illustration of an autonomous logistic orchestration driven by the manufacturing execution systems concludes with concrete example.

Bio:  Yannick Fourastier is Head of Industry 4.0 Solutions & Services for the Bombardier Group. He drives the Industry 4.0 digital transformation agenda, leading the definition of the related technology portfolio and roadmaps overall the TRL scale. He coordinates the Digital Industry building blocks standardization across the Bombardier Divisions. Previous position was at Airbus where he contributed 12 years to the product digitalization and the processes (engineering digitalization first and then digitalization of manufacturing), with having strong focus on cybersecurity and safety aspects. Yannick started is career in 1994 at the design office of space launchers propellers (SEP, now ArianeGroup). He developped deep expertise in OT's (automation, robotic) in the earlies of his career, then industry operations and their performance. Titled as general engineer (Ecole des Mines) with focus on industry engineering and operations technologies, Yannick's completed his profile with executive management education (TBS Executive MBA). Yannick's PhD (INSA) in cybernetic is about the ethic and service trustworthiness of the autonomous and intelligent systems (AI-driven complex systems). He's affiliated to LAAS CNRS. His research works belong to the SC/ISI group. With a dozen of papers published in MISC, few at SEE and IEEE, Yannick is also main author of a reference book aiming the cyberprotection of industrial facilities and assets, he co-led the edition (Cépaduès 2015). Yannick coordinated (2008-2013) off-hours at the Aerospace Valley competitiveness cluster, a major Strategic Activity Domain, IGPC that splitted (2013) into "Factory of the Future" and "Complex Systems Integration".

16h - 16h30  Coffee and tea break

16h30 - 18 h Session 5: Hands-on workshop

Software Defined Radio - Gael Loubet

IoT - LoRA Campus Network  - Gael Loubet and Alex Monti

18h - Gala dinner - in the beautiful garden of LAAS-CNRS

Thuersday 19 July:

9h - 12h Session 6: Industry Exhibition and Poster Session

12h - 14h Lunch

14h - 17h Session 7 : Data Minning

14h - 15h Data privacy in Big Data and IoT - Dr. Jordi Soria-Comas - Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

ABSTRACT: The explosion of big data has opened unprecedent analysis an inference possibilities. While the benefits are obvious, big data has also a dark side: subjects’ privacy is put at risk. Given the difficulty of reconciling privacy and big data, two extreme position have become common: some people claim that we should accept that privacy is dead in the big data world, others claim that we must preserve privacy even at the cost of sacrificing big data. This talk pretends to be an introduction to the topic of data privacy. We will start by reviewing the standard approaches to privacy preservation that have been proposed in the statistics and the computer science communities. Then we will analyze the limitations of such approaches when dealing with big data.

Bio: Jordi Soria-Comas is a Director of Research at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, where he obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2013 and his Master in Computer Science in 2011. Prior to that, he obtained an M.Sc. in Mathematics for Financial Instruments from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2004) and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Barcelona (2003). He is a specialist in data anonymization (k-anonymity, differential privacy and other privacy models). He has worked in several research and transference projects. He has authored 13 journal papers in major journals, plus 21 conference papers. He has served in the program committee of 7 conferences on privacy and security.

15h- 16h Distributed Data management in the framework of Production Systems: from intelligent products to communicating materials - Dr. William Derigent, Univ. Lorraine, CRAN

Abstract: In the framework of production systems, data management architectures have been proposed from the early 2000’s, based on technologies enabling to insert micro-electronic components into things. The Research Center for Automatic Control has been investigated the use of such technologies in the framework of product traceability, product data management and production control for more than 10 years. In this context, we proposed the concept of communicating materials, i.e materials with communication capabilities, composed of a physical material in which electronic devices are spread (such as RFID tags or micro-sensor networks). More recently, we began to investigate the notion of cyber-physical product in the framework of the ANR Project named McBIM. This talk will retrace the different developments made around communicating materials, from the origins of the concept to the different prototypes and experimentations realised.

Bio: William Derigent is an Associate Professor of the Research Centre for Automatic Control (CRAN), located in Nancy, France. After the obtention of a PhD in automated manufacturing in 2006, he dedicated his research to the study of information management for communicating materials, namely materials embedding electronic chips, conferring augmented communication capabilities (data storage and communication). He has studied for about 10 years the different problems related to data modelling, synchronisation, selection and distribution related to these materials, on different case studies related to the manufacturing or the construction industry. During these projects, he has gained consistent knowledge in data modelling standards such as B2MML, STEP or IFC. In 2018, he proposed the notion of cyber-physical product as an abstraction of communicating materials and began to study distributed data management in Cyber-Physical Production Systems, with two application fields that are the manufacturing and the construction industries. He is currently managing the French Project McBIM (for “Materials communicating with the BIM”) which aims to develop intelligent pre-fabricated concrete elements capable to store, manage and exchange data with their environment. During his career, he participated to more than 40 conferences, and published regularly in journals with high impact-factors.

16h - Session 8: Closing session - Awards for Poster Session

Friday 20 July:

9h -12h Visit of beautiful city of Toulouse