An article about our collaboration on structural health monitoring with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, has appeared in the Inria newsletter émergences of July 2019: see here.

Previous articles in émergences about the I4S team talk about efficient monitoring algorithms and the collaboration with the company Structural Vibration Solutions A/S in Denmark (see here, and in English), and about infrared theormography for structural health monitoring (see here).

Our former PhD student Nicolas Le Touz received the Abertis Prize France for his thesis “Design and study of positive energy transport infrastructure: from thermomechanical modelling to the optimisation of such energy systems“, defended in November 2018. The Abertis Prize is awarded for research in transport infrastructure management.

Nassif Berrabah, industrial PhD student of the I4S Team in collaboration with EDF, has defended his thesis on “Inverse problems for diagnosis of electric cables from reflectometry measurements” in November 2017. The research work of his thesis received the award of Scientific Prize from EDF R&D. Congratulations!

The paper “New detection criteria and shunting monitoring in railway track circuit receivers” has won the Best Paper Award , 2nd prize, at the 2nd International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring for Railway Systems. Congratulations to Vincent Le Cam!

The Structual Health Monitoring system developed by Ifsttar and SDEL-CC for lightning detection and localization on electrical lines, has received the VINCI Innovation Award for Western France 2017. Congratulations to our team member Vincent Le Cam!

Our paper “Variance computation of modal parameters estimates from UPC subspace identification” has won the Best Innovative Paper Award at IOMAC (International Operational Modal Analysis Conference) 2017. Authors are team members Michael Doehler, Laurent Mevel and our industrial partner Palle Andersen (Structural Vibration Solutions A/S, Denmark).

Our paper “Infrared thermography applied to transport infrastructures monitoring: outcomes and perspectives” has won the Best Paper Award for best overall paper at the SPIE Thermosense 2017 conference. Congratulations to Jean Dumoulin and Antoine Crinière!

The PEDAL-LORA monitoring sensor has been awarded the European Railway Cluster Prize in railway innovation. The sensor has been developed in the I4S team by Vincent Le Cam and Ifsttar’s engineers for monitoring of detection pedals, used for train passage detection.

Inverse Scattering for Transmission Lines (ISTL) is an efficient tool for real-time soft fault diagnosis in electrical cables, developed by the team. A demonstrator is now available in the showroom at Inria Rennes, as well as a demonstration video.

Our methods for efficient uncertainty quantification for subspace-based modal analysis have been integrated into the ARTeMIS software of our industrial partner Structural Vibration Solutions A/S. They are released with the new version ARTeMIS Modal Pro 5.0, see details in the newsletter.