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The EMpEROR platform was born on the one hand, from the increasing consideration of aeroelastic phenomena in modern aeronautics, and on the other hand, from the synergy between the Aerodynamics, Energetics, and Propulsion (DAEP) and Structural Mechanics and Materials (DMSM) departments.
This platform has been designed and thought out to allow great modularity of metrology, around a rotor bench allowing to rotate from 1 to 6 blades, up to 1 meter in diameter, from 0 to 3000 rpm, and this in complete safety thanks to a 6-meter-long protective cage. It is equipped with several sensors for performance measurements, but also with a rotating vibrometry system for measuring the dynamics of the blades (this system is only used by two laboratories in Europe). The bench also makes it possible to embed measurement systems in the blades, but also in the coming months, systems to control these unstable phenomena.
Since 2020, this platform has also enabled two thesis students to work on aeroelastic phenomena, as well as 6 Master’s students. This platform also makes it possible to generate experimental databases used by ISAE-SUPAERO researchers to compare and validate their computer codes.
The equipment will increase in power in 2024 with the addition of the possibility of making Laser measurements, of the PIV or/and LDV type, as well as the possibility of manufacturing more complex blades with the hand on the flexibility of these.

The “Autonomous Systems” Platform gathers the various tools and means, both software and robotics, provided by the DISC technical team to the researchers of ISAE-SUPAERO. This platform is composed of an evolution area of 10 × 10 × 4 m equipped with a motion capture system, where various mobile ground or air robots can move, as well as a dozen of development and control stations.
This evolution area has a modular semi-urban environment that can be modified according to the different projects or tests to be carried out. The platform is used for the development of demonstrators allowing to highlight the various research projects of the ISAE-SUPAERO researchers, as well as for teaching through practical works which are carried out initially in simulation, then on the real robots.

ISAE-SUPAERO - as a center for training through #research, research training and innovation - has many research equipments used within its 6 research departments.
Today, we present the land mobile robots!
Whether robots, planes, cars, or even telephones, all of these technologies are equipped with perception systems. Depending on the application, these sources of information make it possible to perceive the environment in which a system evolves but also to measure its own characteristics, such as for example its velocity or its acceleration. This multitude of data must then be used, cross-referenced and interpreted within what is called the navigation system to obtain the positioning of the vehicle but also, in the case of mapping applications, that of the objects which surround it.
Within the NAVIRRES (Navigation, Radar, and Remote Sensing) team of the DEOS, researchers are interested in navigation systems and their application in complex environments where sensor information can be degraded, erroneous or even unavailable. Thus, mobile acquisition platforms are developed, equipped with cameras, lidars, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receivers, radars and inertial measurement units, with the aim of obtaining the most efficient navigation system possible, according to the intended application. One of the research topics of the team concerns the analysis of the degradation of information from sensors, which leads to the development of new robust and adaptive algorithms, making it possible to overcome environmental constraints. The ultimate goal is to make navigation systems more precise and safer, for critical applications requiring strong reliability, such as autonomous cars or exploration robotics.

The PRISE project (Platform for Research and Engineering for Embedded Systems) was born in 2007 from an internal initiative at ISAE-SUPAERO to build a platform for research and engineering in the field of embedded systems. The PRISE room has been created to (1) provide a support environment for teaching on software-intensive embedded systems and (2) a test bench platform for research activities combining modeling, analysis and design of complex embedded systems as well as the integration of new functionalities (such as artificial intelligence algorithm embeddability).
The PRISE platform integrates several prototypes and demonstrators such as the SMARTIES flight simulator combining an advanced simulation architecture (flight dynamics, sensors, motors, etc.) and a reproduction of an avionics system for flight control (auto-pilot, data fusion, ...) or FACTORING the prototype of a ring Ethernet network (as opposed to a classic star-type Ethernet network) allowing optimizations and implementations for new network architectures.

Nowadays, CMOS Image Sensors occupy an increasingly important place. Thus, our ISAE-SUPAERO team has been developing CMOS image sensors for several years with many players in the field, and innovates by proposing new architectures and conditions of use requiring studies relating to elementary components but also on more complex structures.
Measurements are then performed on transistors, diodes with the help of a probe tester and a parametric analyzer, allowing very low current measurements (10 aA). Similarly, simple structures containing innovative pixels can be operated with the tester by means of probe cards coupled with a data generator specially designed for image sensors. All these studies make it possible to better understand the physics of photo-detection, but also to constitute models for our simulators. They are also used to follow the manufacturing processes during the various productions.

ISAE-SUPAERO - as a center for training through #research, research training and innovation - has many research equipments used within its 6 research departments.
Today, we present the cryogenic electrical tests facilities!
The ISAE-SUPAERO Image Sensor Research Group (CIMI) is studying sensors in the field of visible wavelengths but also for different spectral domains such as InfraRed (IR). The detection of these longer wavelengths (SWIR to LWIR) requires materials other than silicon for detection, associated with a silicon readout circuit for information processing, all operating at cryogenic temperature.
In this context, ISAE-SUPAERO has developed electrical and electro-optical characterization setups operating at low temperature for microelectronic circuits in order to extract and model the behaviours and performances of these circuits. These characterization setups allow to address both very simple devices, such as transistors, as complex components (complete image sensor) up to 120 inputs/ outputs.

 Présentation de l’ISAE-SUPAERO
- Présentation du MS MGPIE
- Partage d’expériences de 2 diplômées 2022, fondatrices de start-up
- Session de questions/réponses

ISAE-SUPAERO - as a center for training through #research, research training and innovation - has many research equipments used within its 6 research departments.
Today, we present the P68 research aircraft!
Since 2018, the ISAE-SUPAERO Air Operations Center has been equipped with a twin-engine Vulcanair P68 Observer 2 dedicated to teaching ISAE students flight mechanics, flight test techniques, and performing research projects. This aircraft has a telemetry system to track flight parameters in real-time from the campus’ classrooms.
Multipurpose with a large payload, it can embark various sensors thanks to a hatch under the fuselage. It also has unique instrumentation for research activities and sensors for pilot monitoring (remote eye trackers, scene camera etc.) synchronized with the flight parameters. It allows to estimate pilots’ attentional and cognitive states (fatigue, distraction, inattention, engagement, etc.) in real time during the flight.

We received the visit of Professor Shine S R from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) on December 7 and 8. ISAE-SUPAERO signed in 2020 a co #cooperation agreement with the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, and this visit was a perfect opportunity to discuss the deepening of collaborations in #training and #research between our two institutions.
ISAE-SUPAERO and IIST have already been cooperating for 4 years in the framework of Franco-Indian collaborative academic projects, involving ISAE-SUPAERO and IIST students on subjects related to space exploration missions and with the participation of experts from CNES, IRAP and the Indian space agency (ISRO)!