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PhysicsChemistry

MathematicsEngineering

Accelerating science, technology research transfers to industry

aeronautics space embedded systems

IRT Saint Exupéry is an Institute of Technology which combines resources from public and private partners to lead R&T activities in four strategic domains. Target markets include aeronautics, space and embedded systems. Its expertise and technology platforms, as well as its integrated collaborative environment boost the maturation and transfer of breakthrough technologies (TRL 4-6) to IRT industrial partners.

WHAT WE DO

“RECHERCHE EN PROPRE” COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SUBCONTRACTED RESEARCH

Joint management and funding Tailored services

Integrated multi-partner researchCross-fertilization Science & Industry Inter industry Intra industryTechnology acceleratorFinancial leverage

MaterialsData science

PhysicsChemistry

MathematicsEngineering

SCIENCEAeronauticsSpaceAutomotiveRailwayDronesManufacturing

INDUSTRY

HIGH PERFORMANCEMULTIFUNCTIONAL

MATERIALS

MOREELECTRICAL

AIRCRAFT

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING& MODELING

Research & Transfers to IndustryAccelerating Science, Technology

Fundamental Research Market / Products development*

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Technological studiesTechnology platform services

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

& COMMUNICATIONS

• Technology transfers: skills, reports, publications and training• Intellectual property: patents, softwares, processes, expertise and designs• Engineering support: guidelines, models, databases, standards and technology maturity evaluations• Demonstrators: softwares and materials• Networking: cross industry synergy

OUR KEY DELIVERABLES

With IRT Saint Exupéry take part in a project to develop joint resultsParticipate in H2020 projects or others

OUR PROJECT OFFERS

Concepts, prototypes and technologies development

HUMAN RESOURCES

€332MCUMULATIVE BUDGET(2014-2023)

more than

41ON GOING PROJECTS

15 patents, 110 technology transfers and more than180 publications

more than

160MEMBERS & PARTNERS

including 57 SMEs and 53 public institutions and laboratories

11PLATFORMSincluding 51 equipment facilities

37 Experts

17 Technical referents

42 PhD students

18 Postdocs

Sept. 2019KEY FIGURES

IRT Saint Exupéry: At the hub of aeronautics, space and embedded systems ecosystem in Montreal and Nouvelle Aquitaine, Occitanie and Sud regions

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153 IRT Secondments

167 IRT Contract Employees

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| Montpelier site

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IRT sites

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INTERNATIONALPARTNERSHIPS

A range of pre-industrial pilots are dedicated to the development of next generation high performance ceramic-matrix or thermoplastic-matrix pre-impregnated materials that can be functionalized with electrical, thermal and damping properties.

ELABORATION, IMPREGNATION & CONSOLIDATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES Helps industrial end-users, original

equipment manufacturers and SMEs who want to use the additive manufacturing process to build, repair and/or functionalize certified parts for the aerospace industry.

METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

CUTTING-EDGE PLATFORMS

HIGH PERFORMANCE MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Surface preparation: • Plasmas and lasers • Wet processes

Green multifunctional coating: • Micro arc oxidation • Thermal optical coating • Anti-icing and anti-fire coating • Automated painting and inks

Innovative assemblies: • Lead-free soldering• Alternative fixation• Metal and composite adhesive bonding

INNOVATIVE ASSEMBLIES & SURFACES

• Additive manufacturing • Net shape forging • Physical metallurgy • Ageing and durability • Fatigue and damage tolerance • Thermal treatments • Multiscale characterization• Mechanical modeling

METALLIC MATERIALS & PROCESSES

• Thermosets, thermoplastics and ceramics

• Formulation and elaboration • Fiber sizing and matrix impregnation • Multifunctionality• “Out of autoclave” processes • Thermoplastic welding • Injection and melt infiltration • Virtual material and testing • Recycling

COMPOSITE MATERIALS & PROCESSES

These surface preparation and adhesive bonding platforms, merged together with innovative data analytics, allow the development of automated plasma and laser surface preparations and the setting up of robust adhesive bonding processes.

SURFACE PREPARATION & ADHESIVE BONDING

Increase power density, reliability of electromechanical drives and power electronics for “high voltage” applications thanks to:• Wide band gap components• New topologies• Electro Magnetic Compatibility filters• New technologies and integration• High speed electrical machines• Global optimization methodologies

and tools• Cooling solutions

POWER TECHNOLOGIES & INTEGRATION

To study the partial discharge inception voltage of components in order to evaluate their reliability. Also designed to test equipment under nominal operating conditions from the point of view of electrical or environmental constraints.

PARTIAL DISCHARGES

Hysteresis cycles and losses characterization of magnetic materials used in electrical machines. It includes a single sheet tester, a 2D rotational power loss tester able to reproduce realistic waveform and 2 Epstein frames.

MAGNETIC MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION LAB CUTTING-EDGE PLATFORMS

HYBRID PROPULSION

Assessment and management of voltage impact: • Partial discharges• Space charges• Electric arcs• Electrical ageing

Mass impact mitigation by:• Innovative dielectrics • Conductors

DIELECTRICS, CONDUCTORS & PLASMAS

Enabling cost effective reliability management Assessing failure mechanisms analysis Modeling for emerging technologies: Components off-the-shelf • Wide band-gap • Digital components• Batteries• Fuel cells

COMPONENTS MODELING & RELIABILITY

To evaluate electric arc signature under several voltages types - 28VDC, 115VAC, 230VAC, 270VDC and 540VDC - to give installation recommendations and to develop or validate arc protections.

ELECTRIC ARCS

Dedicated to the conducted emission characterization of wide band gap electromechanical drives - inverter, cables, AC motor with DO160 setup - and stability and subsystem interactions with two electromechanical drives.

50KW ELECTROMECHANICAL DRIVES TEST BENCH

It dynamically creates MDO processes and offers a range of innovative MDO methods. It is the core component of SPIRO, a user-friendly software platform to support MDO processes in distributed environments, handle data transportation and manage errors and crashes.

GEMS - A DISRUPTIVE TOOL FOR MDO

A four-engine pre-flight inspection drone for aircraft, manufacturing, etc. The objective is to provide an industrial scale case study supporting research work.

AIDA - A DRONE FOR AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING & MAINTENANCE

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING& MODELING

CUTTING-EDGE PLATFORMS

TeePee is a collaborative model-based engineering platform that contributes to system architectures analyses in an Extended Entreprise context with heterogeneous methods and tools and IP protection.

TEEPEE - A UNIFIED VISION OF STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE FOR EXTENDED ENTERPRISE

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• MDO software platform in the service of the multidisciplinary designer

• Innovative MDO methodologies, formulations and advanced methods

• Automatic design space exploration and multidisciplinary optimization

• MDO under uncertainty and robust optimization

• Advanced aeronautical test cases representative of industrial constraints

• Development of high-level expertise through international research collaborations

MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION (MDO)

Model-based collaborative system engineering: • Multi-disciplinary Model-Based

Engineering: MBSE/MBSA, MBSE/MDO• MBSE in Extended Enterprise• Requirements and Model-Based

Systems EngineeringHigh performance processing and architectures:• Deterministic synchronous and

parallel programming • Structural and behavioural

interference analysis • WCET static and dynamic analysis • HW/SW deployment: FPGA and

virtual platform design Design, V&V and certification process for complex critical functions including artificial intelligence

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

CUTTING-EDGE PLATFORMS

ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS & COMMUNICATIONS

Turnkey access to cloud computing with a modular Python library for artificial intelligence applications, machine learning and crowdsourcing.

CITADEL PLATFORM - TOOLBOX FOR FAST PROTOTYPING OF AI & BIG DATA SOLUTIONS

ELITE TRANSMISSION PLATFORM - A REFERENCE TOOL FOR EVALUATING SATELLITE LINK PERFORMANCE

Real-time platform to evaluate the contribution of new optimization algorithms on satellite link capacity and quality performance. Compare different architecture options and select the most efficient one without setting up real links!

• Dependable machine learning• Robustness, explainability and

interpretability• Certification and qualification of

artificial intelligence• Differential privacy and collaborative

learning

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR AUTONOMOUS & CRITICAL SYSTEMS

• Unsupervised machine learning• Reinforcement learning• Combinatorial optimization• Artificial intelligence and physical

models hybridization• Embedded artificial intelligence

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS

• Embedded digital signal processing for communications

• Flexible communication network• Embedded image processing• Real time artificial intelligence• Free space optical transmission • Microwave photonics

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

A GROUP OF WORLD-CLASS ACTORS SUPPORTING CUTTING-EDGE INNOVATION

VALUESYour task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

(Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Citadelle)

The 8 IRTs benefit from the French government program “Investir l’Avenir” ( Investments for the Future).

contact@irt-saintexupery.com

+ 33 (0) 5 61 00 67 50

@irtSaintEx

www.irt-saintexupery.com

LOCATIONS

FIT, THE ASSOCIATION WHICH BRINGS THE 8 IRTS TOGETHERThe Association of IRTs was created in 2015. It is called the French Institutes of Technology (FIT).

TOULOUSEB612 Building3 rue tarfaya - CS 34 43631405 Toulouse Cedex 4 (France) SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS

Inria - 2004 route des luciolesBP 93 - 06902 Sophia Antipolis (France)BORDEAUX

Arts et MétiersParisTechCampus of Bordeaux-TalenceEsplanade des Arts et Métiers, 33405 Talence cedex (France)

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Pioneering Spirit

Commitment, sense of sharing and responsibility

Meaning of action and experimentation

Open-mindedness to other people and culture

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MONTPELLIERLe Triade Building215 rue Samuel Morse34000 Montpellier (France)