LIST - CEA/CEA · JULY 22, 2016 Taking digital mammography further Production of GE Healthcare’s new Pristina mammography system started up, marking the first milestone in the MammoNExT

LIST (Laboratory for the Integration of Systems and Technologies), a CEA Tech institute, is based in Saclay, in Paris area, France.

The institute’s mission is to develop technologies at the cutting edge of science and transfer innovative solutions based on these

technologies to industrial companies.

As a provider of advanced innovation that meets the needs of businesses, LIST helps companies of all sizes from all industries remain

competitive on their markets. The institute’s 800 research scientists, engineers, and technicians support 200 industrial companies from France and around the world each year with projects that respond to the major challenges facing the economy and society: technologies for advanced

manufacturing, cyber physical systems, data intelligence, and digital patient. LIST has received the Carnot Label as Technologies Numériques

@Université Paris-Saclay (TN@UPSaclay), confirming its leadership in developing digital technologies for businesses.

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PROFILE

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Read the Director’s Foreword online atwww-list.cea.fr/en

ith 400 joint R&D projects and 200 partnerships with industrial companies in 2016, LIST was

successful in its mission of developing world-class digital technologies and transferring them to industry. At LIST, our main strengths are our people, who conduct top-quality research and our technology platforms, some of the best-equipped in France or even in Europe. We also pride ourselves in quality project execution that has earned the satisfaction of our industrial R&D partners, bringing them advantages that set them apart from their market competitors.

The quality of technologies we develop and our capacity to transform technological innovations into solutions and services for industry have earned recognition in France, in particular through the prestigious Institut Carnot Label, which was renewed in 2016. We have also carved out a unique position in Europe through our leadership in public-private partnerships (PPP) in cybersecurity in particular. LIST currently operates in a buoyant ecosystem characterized by both competition and cooperation, where demand for our technologies – especially our digital technologies – is very high.

Today, our three main ambitions are: To strengthen its excellence in

scientific research, the foundation of our know-how, To ramp up the transfer of the

technologies we develop to industry

by increasing the number and quality of our R&D partnerships and broadening the diversity of markets addressed, To coordinate the digital technology

know-how available on the Paris-Saclay campus and carve out a strong international position.

Implementing our science and technology strategy will depend on the development of key enabling technologies that we combine to create solutions that meet the needs of industrial companies. The financing of key enabling technologies by some of our partners increases our capacity to get these technologies to industry. Startups created to develop and commercialize our technologies – whether they are LIST spinoffs or founded by LIST partners – play a crucial and increasing role in our strategy. Furthermore, the creation of the DigiHall digital technology hub in conjunction with Systematic Paris-Région, IRT SystemX, Inria, Télécom ParisTech, and Paris-Saclay University, will bring together in a single location a research ecosystem, an industrial ecosystem made up of the companies housed there, and an open innovation ecosystem with the Paris-Saclay Design Center.

With our partners by our side, we are poised to tackle the challenges of artificial intelligence. Here at LIST, we have a team of 200 research scientists and engineers experts in artificial intelligence. We also possess a vast portfolio of dedicated technology bricks. Therefore, we are in a strong position to address artificial intelligence – a priority for France and Europe. It is now up to us to take full advantage of these resources to meet the new and emerging needs of industry.

I hope you enjoy this year’s Activity Report!

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LIST IS POISED TO TACKLE THE CHALLENGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.”Philippe Watteau,DIRECTOR, LIST

Director’s Foreword

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Contents

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ADVANCED MANUFACTURING

CYBER PHYSICALSYSTEMS

MANDARIN: a “sensational” force-feedback glovep.16

IMPROVED DETECTION of aeronautics equipmentcable defectsp.18

AFTM ACCELERATES ultrasonic inspectionp.20

STELLAR, a hardware/software component design architecture for the transportation industryp.24

BINSEC: new milestones in binary-code analysisp.26

SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES


CONTENTS

Director’s ForewordPhilippe WatteauDirector, LISTp.3

LIST, addressing the major challenges facing the economy and societyp.6

Notable events of 2016p.8

Four areas of excellencep.10

Technology platformsp.12

LISTkey figuresp.14

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03 04P.29 P.33DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE THE DIGITAL PATIENT

N2D2:the platform that accelerates deep learningp.30

MULTI-MODE RADIOMICS to plan cancer treatments p.34

SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES

LIST startups,facilitating technology transfer

p.36

Institut Carnot:a Label of excellence

p.38

Partnership modelsto meet the needs of industrial companies

p.40

FactoryLabp.42

The Industry of the FutureAlliance

p.43

DIGIHALLfuture digital hub at Paris-Saclay

p.44

LISTorg chart

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CONTENTS

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ABOUT LIST

LIST, an institute of CEA Tech, the CEA Technology Research Division, has earned

the Institut Carnot Label. With a focus on smart digital systems, LIST partners

with companies of all sizes from all industries to bring them the technological

innovations they need to remain competitive.

LIST,addressing the major challenges facing the economy and society

MAKING BUSINESSES MORE COMPETITIVE

At LIST, a CEA Tech institute, all research and development are conducted with one goal in mind: to create innovation for tomorrow’s digital society. LIST has also earned the Label (TN@UPSaclay), recognition of the institute’s work with industrial companies to bring them the technological innovations they need to remain competitive.

technologies for advanced manufacturing, cyber physical systems, digital intelligence, and technologies for the digital patient.

LIST also possesses integration platforms with capabilities ranging from sensors and artificial intelligence to systems design and testing.

And, to more closely align with the needs of industrial companies, LIST also now offers collaborative R&D resources in the spirit of open innovation. In 2016, as a member of the Alliance Industrie du Futur with Cetim, Mines and Arts (Instituts Carnot), LIST created the FactoryLab platform for the integration of solutions for innovative industrial systems.

Finally, LIST created the DigiHall digital technology hub in partnership with, Inria,

Télécom & Société numérique (both members of the Instituts Carnot

network), the Paris-Saclay University Initiative of Excellence, and the

Systematic cluster.

LIST is at the state of the art in smart digital systems, leveraging key enabling technologies in its four areas of excellence: digital factory, cyber physical systems, artificial intelligence, and innovative instrumentation.

The institute’s four research and development programs address


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ABOUT LIST

21STARTUPS

created since 2001

OUR STRENGTHS

A portfolio of patented key enabling technologies that can be used in a wide

variety of applicationsLIST’s industrial R&D partners can take advantage of these

assets to develop new products and processes that meet the

needs of their markets.

A team of “innovation assemblers”

Our researchers design complete, coherent, optimized solutions.

19 technology platforms with state-of-the-art

equipment Our technology platforms

are run by experts and distill our know-how in ten

R&D areas.

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERCurrently, 21 startups are developing LIST technologies and scaling them up for use in industrial environments. Every year, LIST works with more than 200 companies from all industries and has set up rigorous policies to protect its intellectual property worldwide.

A NATIONAL ECOSYSTEMAs a member of the Instituts Carnot network, LIST (TN@UPSaclay) partners with the other members of the network (Inria, Cetim, Télécom & Société numérique). The institute is also an active member of the Paris-Saclay University community. LIST also runs collaborative R&D projects with clusters across France and is a member of the Alliance Industrie du Futur.

AN INTERNATIONAL SCOPELIST is currently contributing to around 100 high-level academic research programs at the European level and is broadening its industrial R&D partnerships beyond Europe (the United States, Japan, Sweden). LIST is also a member of several EU R&D governance bodies, helping to develop calls for projects on emerging technologies.

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL EXCELLENCELIST research scientists and engineers work only on R&D projects and publish the results of their research in top-tier international journals. They leverage their state-of-the-art knowledge to develop breakthrough technologies.

THE PILLARS OF OUR STRATEGY

200 INDUSTRIAL R&D

PARTNERS

40 JOINT R&D

programs and labs


HIGHLIGHTS

LIST consolidated its position as a major center

for the development of technology for the industry

of the future and a key contributor to some of the

most innovative industrial R&D projects anywhere.

The institute earned recognition for its leadership

in France and internationally.

Notable events of 2016

LIST wins award in France’s 18th national innovative high-tech startup competitionThe iLab competition, run by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research in partnership with Bpifrance, granted an award to proposed startup Motion Recall-Ultra Virtual Reality, which is developing a virtual reality recorder that can interact with video footage of the environment via a virtual reality headset.

JULY 7, 2016

Diota wins Grand Prize in the Numerical Simulation AwardsLIST’s startup Diota won the Grand Prize in the Numerical Simulation Awards organized by L’Usine Digitale magazine and the Teratec cluster. The awards recognize achievements in numerical simulation and Big Data. Diota won the award for its optimization of high-added-value industrial tasks with easy-to-use augmented reality. The company’s solutions have attracted some big-name customers like Dassault Aviation, Volkswagen, PSA, and Safran.

JUNE 28, 2016

LIST unveils its force-controlled robotLIST presented a robot combining demonstration-based learning and force control, soon to be released by startup iSybot. The first use case was for grinding and polishing mechanical parts.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

CEA and Safran invest in DiotaSafran Corporate Ventures and Calao Finance acquired stakes in LIST startup Diota. Their combined investment of €3 million will accelerate the company’s international expansion.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A major stakeholder in the EU Cybersecurity PPPLIST was elected to the Board of Directors of the Cybersecurity public-private partnership (PPP), an EU initiative uniting Member States and cybersecurity stakeholders around this crucial challenge.

JULY 22, 2016

Taking digital mammography furtherProduction of GE Healthcare’s new Pristina mammography system started up, marking the first milestone in the MammoNExT project, which is developing an X-ray tomography machine that will improve patient comfort and diagnostic quality.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

FactoryLab for faster integration of new technologies at manufacturing plantsSpearheaded by LIST as the lead of eight partners from research and industry, the FactoryLab collaborative platform was inaugurated by Christophe Sirugue, France’s Secretary of Industry.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Railway Applications Section first prizeA team of engineers from LIST won first prize in the Railway Applications Section competition at the INFORMS international conference on operations research.

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

A guide for more efficient embedded software development and assessmentLIST co-authored the “Software Guidelines: Development & Assessment” with Bureau Veritas, the global leader in testing, inspection, and certification.

JANUARY 25, 2016

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HIGHLIGHTS

Easier access to innovation for SMBs in the automotive industry Nine members of the Instituts Carnot network, all major government research organizations, joined forces under the “Carnauto” program established to reach out to SMBs in the automotive and mobility industries and facilitate these companies’ access to innovation.

APRIL 14, 2016

LIST wins Economic Impact Award at French National Research Agency Digital Days Florian Gosselin, coordinator of the Mandarin project, won the Economic Impact Award at the French National Research Agency’s Digital Days. The award was for the development of a lightweight, compact, effective, and easy-to-use force-feedback glove.

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Cobotics: new startup iSybotStartup iSybot, which specializes in collaborative robotics, was founded at the end of 2016 to pursue the work completed under LIST’s SYBOT project, which won an iLab award in 2015. iSybot will develop and commercialize LIST’s most powerful actuator and command-control technologies for industrial cobots. An interactive grinding tool developed in partnership with Gebe2 was presented at the Smart Industries trade fair.

DECEMBER 7, 2016

WiseBIM converts 2D drawings to 3D in just minutesLIST developed a software application that can generate digital 3D renderings of buildings from 2D paper drawings in just minutes. WiseBIM, now being commercialized by a startup of the same name, is affordable, fast, and easy to use. WiseBIM eliminates trips to building sites and is suitable batches of drawings of all sizes. This novel solution is ideal for construction-industry professionals and building users.

MAY 2, 2016

Long-term partnership with NuviaLIST and Vinci’s nuclear subsidiary Nuvia announced a new three-year R&D partnership under a joint innovation lab.

DECEMBER 2016

APRIL 2016

Image recognition tool transferred to Ant’Inno and the DGGNLIST transferred its ELISE image recognition tool to Ant’Inno for integration into a criminal records software application at the request of France’s Gendarmerie Nationale (DGGN). ELISE, which can complete searches very rapidly (just ten seconds to search 4.5 million images) and accurately (with a 96.2% positive identification rate), meets law enforcement’s needs. It can be used to search pictures of stolen objects or tattoos, for example. The quality of the search results and the solution’s maturity spurred the DGGN to accelerate production and launch field-testing by officers in 2017.

Startup newsCorporate news

New exoskeleton conceptsRB3D unveiled its new Hercule Slim exoskeleton at the Innorobo trade fair. The exoskeleton has a spherical-bearing hip joint that offers an excellent range of movement. The company also showcased its Exo Push exoskeleton, which has a portable jointed structure designed and patented by LIST. This exoskeleton is used to reduce the effort needed by workers laying asphalt.

MAY 24, 2016

Words recognized from imagesLIST successfully tested its semantic analysis solutions at the French Open at the request of France’s national broadcasting corporation France Télévisions. The test demonstrated the usefulness of the technology to the media.

MAY 21, 2016


Four areasof excellence

OUR R&D CAPABILITIES IN FOUR MAJOR AREAS OF EXCELLENCE

The Factory of the Future aims to make manufacturing systems more productive and agile, from workstation ergonomics to quality control. LIST’s R&D programs cover robot design and development, real-time interactive virtual-reality simulation, augmented reality, non-destructive testing, and digital “twins” to model all flows within a company.

Artificial intelligence through innovative, high-performance, and – most importantly – tested and reliable algorithms for semantic analysis, real-time image and video processing, and Big Data to offer new services for all areas of industry.

Cyber physical systems to meet the needs of major industries like ground transportation, aeronautics and space, energy, digital healthcare, and the Factory of the Future. LIST designs smart, connected embedded systems that include high-performance computing, dedicated to digital architectures, and cybersecurity.

Innovative instrumentation via the development and optimization of hardware and software systems that use physical measurements (activity, dosage, spectra for energy, temperature, deformation, etc.) to characterize a given parameter, mainly for applications in the nuclear industry (safety and decommissioning) and industrial control.

FOUR TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS Advanced manufacturing Cyber physical systems Digital intelligence The digital patient

LIST’s four areas of excellence – the Factory of the

Future, cyber physical systems, artificial intelligence,

and innovative instrumentation – draw on research

facilities outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment

for industrial scale-up and staffed by experts.

LIST offers its partners the resources they need

to create value through technological innovation.

ARE A S OF EXCELLENCE

THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE

01 - COLLABORATIVE ROBOTICS MISSION: make manual tasks

easier, improve the quality of operator movements, and increase productivity. MAIN EQUIPMENT: industrial

collaborative and inspection robots, exoskeletons, automatic guided vehicles (AGV), and remote operation systems. KEY FIGURES: 1,500 sq. m

of facilities, a staff of 50, and 20 industrial R&D partners.

02 - VIRTUAL REALITY MISSION: investigate production

chains, workstation ergonomics, and operator assistance using virtual and blended reality simulation. MAIN EQUIPMENT: a five-sided

immersive environment, laser projectors, infrared cameras to capture movements, 1:1 haptic-feedback arms, P clusters. KEY FIGURES: 350 sq. m


03 - NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING MISSION: new testing and

inspection processes and methods, sensors, instrumentation, and processing algorithms for defect detection. MAIN EQUIPMENT: robotized

X-ray tomography unit, laser ultrasound unit, EMAT and CMUT ultrasonic sensors, electromagnetic sensors, and multi-element ultrasonic instrumentation. KEY FIGURES: 500 sq. m


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04 - DIGITAL TWINS MISSION: control the entire

digital chain from sensors and data integration to modelling factory systems. KNOW-HOW: data analysis,

optimization, systems architecture, modelling, and simulation. KEY FIGURES: 1,000 sq. m


09 - NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION FOR ENERGY MISSION: measurement systems

for nuclear plant operation, monitoring, safety, and decommissioning. MAIN EQUIPMENT: linear electron

accelerators, chemistry labs, and lasers for engraving Bragg networks. KEY FIGURES: a staff of 30

and 10 industrial R&D partners.

05 - CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS DESIGN MISSION: design cyber physical systems

optimized for form factor, power, cost, and security. MAIN EQUIPMENT: CAD tools for

hardware and software system simulation, Synopsis Zebu cyber physical systems emulator, and test benches replicating severe environments. KEY FIGURES: 2,000 sq. m of facilities,

a staff of 120, and 40 industrial R&D partners.

06 - SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MISSION: software and systems

design and testing optimized for cost, quality, performance, safety, and security. MAIN EQUIPMENT: Papyrus

and Frama-C open software labs, commercial software, and computing resources. KEY FIGURES: 1,000 sq. m


07 - CYBERSECURITY MISSION: protection against software and

hardware attacks on applications, integrated circuits, cyber physical systems, and more. MAIN EQUIPMENT: a CAD chain, Verigy 93000

tester, Mentor Graphics Veloce 2 circuit emulator, and a function library. KEY FIGURES: 1,300 sq. m of facilities,

a staff of 100, and 30 industrial R&D partners.

08 - DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE MISSION: develop new tools to enable

cooperation between humans and their digital environments. KNOW-HOW: statistical analysis,

multimedia data search, vision systems, mechatronics, decision assistance, and protocol design. KEY FIGURES: 1,000 sq. m of facilities,

a staff of 150, and 50 industrial R&D partners.10 - DOSEO RADIOTHERAPY

AND IMAGING MISSION: research and training

for radiotherapy and medical imaging. MAIN EQUIPMENT:

radiotherapy accelerators, scanner, tomodensitometry scanner, brachytherapy source, and a Cobalt-60 irradiator. KEY FIGURES: 2,400 sq. m

of facilities, a staff of 35, and 10 partnerships with patient care centers and industrial companies.

CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTATION

4AREASOF EXCELLENCE

ARE A S OF EXCELLENCE


TECHNOLOGY PL ATFORMS

Technologyplatforms

ROBOTICS PLATFORM

Automation for command-control Dexterous manipulation Collaborative robotics

DIGITAL FACTORY PLATFORM

Model-driven engineering Raw data processing Command-control Network protocols and software Multimedia data analysis

AUGMENTED REALITY PLATFORM

3D reconstruction and mobility

VIRTUAL REALITY PLATFORM

Numerical solver Geometric calculation kernel

NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING PLATFORM

Wave-based sensors Robotized X-ray tomography Acoustical simulation and modelling Imaging and inversion Electromagnetic simulation and modelling Model-assisted probability of detection Software integration

NANODESIGN PLATFORM

Bio-inspired architectures

FRAMA-C PLATFORM

Formal methods

CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS PLATFORM

Sizing analysis flow Critical real-time design Hypervisors for safety and security

COTS PLATFORM

Multicore architectures for cyber physical systems Architectures close to vision sensors

SYSTEMS MODELLING PLATFORM

Model-driven engineering Formal modelling Automated code generation

FACTORY OF THE FUTURE

CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

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TECHNOLOGY PL ATFORMS

N2D2 PLATFORM

Neuromorphic architectures

MOBILEMII PLATFORM

Haptic interaction Surface functionalization

BIG DATA PLATFORM

Multimedia data analysis Scene analysis Simulation of systems and physical measurements

CYBERSECURITY PLATFORM

Cryptocomputing Blockchain

DOSEO PLATFORM

Simulation and statistical modelling of complex physical systems

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION PLATFORM

Hardened electronics National repository of dose and activity reference standards High-resolution digitization and embedded processing SENSORS FOR

INSTRUMENTATION PLATFORM

Diamond sensors Organic scintillators Bragg networks

INSTRUMENTATION FOR METROLOGY PLATFORM

Dose and activity measurement

CABLE DIAGNOSTICS PLATFORM

Reflectometry-based sensors

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

INNOVATIVE INSTRUMENTATION

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A CLOSER LOOK

58 %

42 %

Incentive funds

Industrial R&D contracts 80 %

EXTERNALREVENUE

20 % government subsidies

LISTkey figures

ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET

200R&D PARTNERS

Greater Paris

SMBs

1/2

55 %

INDUSTRIES

more than 400 projects per year

2016 HEADCOUNT

140PhDs and post-docs

40senior experts

100experts

25state-certified research directors

15 research directors & international experts

800employees

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

126active

LICENSES

471active

PATENTS

65PATENT

APPLICATIONS filed in 2016

200conferences

300publications

125publications in top-tier journals

8books authored or co-authored

AEROSPACE AUTOMOTIVE ENERGY OIL & GAS

FARMING AND FOOD MANUFACTURING SERVICES

HEALTHCARE CONSTRUCTION DEFENSE NAVAL

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S C I E N T I F I C A D VA N C E


ADVANCED MANUFAC TURING

ASSISTANCE FOR THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE

MANDARIN: a “sensational”

force-feedback glove

igital models are the most practical and economical prototypes around, mak-ing them a crucial link in the production chain for

any new product or service.

However, to use digital models effec-tively requires the appropriate interaction devices. LIST responded to this need by developing an innovative force-feedback glove that lets users perform natural-feel-ing dexterous manipulations in a virtual environment.

The glove was optimized to offer high performance while remaining easy to use by non-specialists. Each finger has a single actuator (instead of the usual three) to simulate grabbing force and a haptic feed-back system that imitates the textures or other effects of manipulating an object.

The force-feedback glove was unveiled to the public at the Innorobo trade fair in 2016. It was interfaced with a compact controller developed by Haption and integrated with a virtual reality application. “Haption leveraged our research to develop a commercial version of the system, which is being marketed under the name HGlove.”

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LIST developed a haptic virtual reality system that is compact, lightweight,

and high-performance, giving users a totally new dexterous manipulation

experience in virtual environments.

Overall, the glove is much lighter in weight than systems providing sensations of equal quality. It also offers the advantage of pro-ducing substantial force at the fingertips, with sensitivity to the user’s movements. “This ‘mechanical transparency’ was obtained by combining DC motors with a high-yield, low-friction reducer,” said Pro-ject Coordinator Florian Gosselin. “Force is transmitted to the fingertips by structures with a kinematic torque architecture which ensures that transmission takes place very close to the hand.” Finally, innovative opti-cal sensors effectively distribute around the axes of the joints measure the robot’s (and, therefore, the user’s fingers) move-ments with a high degree of precision. “All of these components are integrated into the glove in a modular fashion so that performance can be adapted to the user’s needs. The glove can be modified and could ultimately be batch-manufactured at a reasonable cost.”

THE GLOVE WAS OPTIMIZED TO DELIVER A HIGH LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE AND BE EASY TO USE BY NON-SPECIALISTS.Florian GOSSELIN,Research engineer

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CONNECTED PLASTIC-INJECTION MOLDSLIST developed a smart supervision system for plastic injection molds for manufacturing company Georges Pernoud. The system uses temperature sensors to detect anomalies likely to affect the quality of the parts produced. This system will position Georges Pernoud to make inroads into the IoT with connected molds that will add value to the company’s processes with new capabilities like predictive maintenance, where data can be transmitted to improve production planning. Early experiments were very encouraging, with productivity increases of 15% to 25%.

ASSISTANCE FOR THE FACTORY OF THE FUTURE

A SIMULATOR FOR OFFSHORE LIFTING OPERATIONSTechnipFMC, a provider of offshore construction services to the oil and gas industry, uses vessels equipped with cranes to lower equipment to the sea floor. Weather-related incidents during lifting operations can be potentially costly. LIST used its XDE Physics engine to develop the XDE Marine extension to meet TechnipFMC’s unique needs. The extension provides reliable, interactive, real-time numerical simulations of the most critical steps in these lifting operations. TechnipFMC is now using CETO®, the interactive simulator based on LIST’s research, for complex lifting operations, where it has successfully identified risks that cannot be detected by conventional, non-interactive simulators and corrected them before incidents occur.

FORCE-CONTROLLED ROBOT DEMONSTRATOR PRESENTED AT JECLIST partnered with Gebe2, a company specializing in robotic grinding, to design, prepare, and present the world’s first collaborative grinding robot (cobot) at the JEC composites trade fair. The achievement drew on LIST’s previous research on interactive robotics technology and the creation of startup iSybot. A new version of the robot’s actuator provides better force control and low inertia, for a gentle approach to the surfaces to be treated and, therefore, optimal grinding quality.

The new technology also offers demonstration-based learning, which makes the robot easier to program. LIST’s partnership with a leading integrator and the presentation of an industrial-scale demonstrator at JEC provided an opportunity for LIST to boost iSybot’s credibility in terms of applications and markets. ASSISTANCE FOR PRODUCT-LINE

DESIGNDesigning a product line using processes that factor in features common to all products and features that vary from one product to another can help reduce time-to-market. However, designing a coherent product line that aligns with all specifications does present some challenges. Atos Worldgrid turned to LIST for assistance designing its nuclear power plant management systems. LIST came up with an engineering approach based on a product-line concept that can be applied in a unified manner at the earliest stages of the design process, from the needs analysis to selecting the most appropriate architectures.

2016 Highlights

PATRICE JACQUET Vice President, Research and Development, Georges Pernoud

Multinational injection-mold manufacturer Georges Pernoud turned to LIST for support with the digital technology component of its “mold of the future” project to develop a smart, connected, 100% electric mold.“Our work with LIST gave us an opportunity to be a part of a major EU research project, BEInCPPS, and to ramp up some of our R&D programs.

The partnership also expanded our technological, electronics, and software know-how and gave us a method for developing innovative concepts. The opportunity to work with some of the top experts in Europe strengthened our culture of collaborative innovation and informed our 2020 strategy roadmap.”



INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL


IMPROVED DETECTION of aeronautics equipment

cable defects

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*Orthogonal Multi-tone Time Domain Reflectometry

arly-stage damage to cables accounts for 45% of all anomalies detected in the aeronautics equip-ment industry. The capa-

city to detect damage early can help prevent incidents like broken and short circuits that could cut off power or communications, creating potentially dangerous situations.

LIST developed an innovative process that uses reflectometry to detect defects. An electronic circuit board injects an OMTDR* digital communication signal, avoiding interference, and an algorithm fuses the results of several post-process-ing methods applied to the reflectogram.

LIST developed an innovative process to improve the

detection of defects in aircraft cable and wiring systems.

The advance will facilitate aircraft maintenance and make

air transportation safer.

The system reduces the risk of false positives and provides more reliable, robust detection of early-stage damage. In addition, the detection distance is eight times longer than current systems. “Our system can detect early-stage damage up to 20 meters from the signal injection point,” said Wafa Ben Hassen, research engineer at LIST.

“Very small cable curve radii – less than ten times the cable diameters – can cause damage to cables over time. We can detect this type of damage, as well as damage to lengths of cable insulation and shielding of just 5mm.”

The process, which was patented in 2016, is currently being developed into a miniatur-ized prototype. It will be scaled up for indus-trial manufacturing in 2018, in the form of a hard-case-type kit, by connector manufac-turer Nicomatic.

OUR SYSTEM CAN DETECT EARLY-STAGE DAMAGE UP TO 20 METERS FROM THE SIGNAL INJECTION POINT.Wafa BEN HASSEN, research engineer

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INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL

ADONIS MONITORS AND DETECTS FUEL-SHEATH RUPTURESHigh-performance instruments will be required to detect leaks in the future 4th-generation ASTRID reactor’s fuel sheaths, crucial to ensuring safety. LIST successfully tested its ADONIS high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer to respond to this need. ADONIS uses a non-linear numerical signal-processing algorithm that remains stable in a variety of test conditions. The spectrometer was implemented at the CEA’s experimental reactor, OSIRIS, for nearly two years. During this period, the instrument monitored nine power increases on nuclear fuel rods; two of the increases caused fuel-sheath ruptures. With its high counting rate, ADONIS was able to analyze the signal produced by a major fuel-sheath defect and continuously measure the entire second rupture, while the traditional spectrometer was saturated.

THE FIRST 6-D RESONANT SENSOR FOR FORCE-CONTROLLED ROBOTICS LIST developed a 6D force/torque sensor based on a resonant mechanical structure or electronic components that are made to vibrate. The system can measure several components of force applied to the sensor’s piezoresistive bar. The prototype built, which causes “sensitive” areas to vibrate independently using a piezoelectric sensor and switches, is a world-first. LIST plans to pursue development work on the sensor in order to integrate it into industrial robotic systems that use force-feedback architectures.

SCINTILLATOR SOURCES FOR THE ASTRO-H SATELLITEASTRO-H, Japan’s largest space telescope, was put into orbit in February 2016 to observe the universe and, specifically, high-energy phenomena. LIST designed and built a scintillator source with Americium-241 to calibrate the hardened X-ray detector (HXI) in the telescope’s imager. The alpha particles from the Americium-241 are detected by a scintillator, indicating the emission of gamma rays. This information is used to calibrate the energy of the X-ray detector. In this way, the calibration source can be distinguished from a cosmic source. Now on board the satellite, CEA technologies have made it into orbit!

NUCLEAR RISK: A PORTABLE NEUTRON/GAMMA DETECTION SYSTEMLIST developed a prototype of a portable system to enable workers in the nuclear industry to detect both the neutrons and gamma rays emitted by nuclear material. The system is intended to improve the management of radioactivity-related risks. LIST drew on its in-depth knowledge of materials chemistry to take advantage of the slight difference in interaction times between fluorescent molecules and neutrons and gamma rays. The system, in a compact hard-case kit format, includes a lightweight photodetection unit, a high-resolution signal digitization system, a real-time pulse processing algorithm that characterizes the type of radiation, and an alarm.

COMBINING REAL AND VIRTUAL X-RAY IMAGES TO IMPROVE SAFETY AND SECURITYThe purpose of the EU ACXIS project on border security and X-ray inspection of shipping containers is to improve the detection of prohibited items through new inspection procedures using a reference database and a tool to help customs officials identify threats. In research conducted under the project, LIST developed an algorithm that generates X-ray images representative of actual items confiscated by combining images of shipping containers provided by customs and virtual images of threats (weapons, explosives, drugs, etc.) produced using LIST’s experimental acquisition and simulation tools. The software developed was used to expand an existing database of X-ray images of freight containing both legal and illegal merchandise used to train customs officials.

A SIMULATION MODEL FOR PHASE-CONTRAST X-RAY IMAGINGPhase-contrast X-ray imaging can provide information that conventional imaging cannot. LIST developed a direct simulation model that factors in the X-rays’ phase variations that can, among other things, aid in the design of phase-extraction algorithms and the dimensioning of systems required for the use of the technology. The simulator and algorithms developed will expand the capabilities of the CIVA-RT simulation platform and can also be used in healthcare (pulmonary imaging and mammography), and industrial quality control (plastics and composite materials).


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The Adaptive Total Focusing Method (ATFM) developed

by LIST is a new ultrasonic imaging method that can make

inspecting structures with complex geometries faster.

AFTM ACCELERATESultrasonic inspection

TFM is an expanded version of TFM (Total F o c u s i n g M e t h o d ) , an ultrasonic imaging method, which focuses

ultrasound on all points for optimal image quality. The method can be used to inspect structures with complex geometries; it includes an additional acoustical measurement of the irregular surface. The technology was integrated into Gekko, a portable ultrasonic inspec-tion system commercialized by startup M2M.

ATFM, which can be used to inspect welds and characterize corrosion, for example, saves a remarkable amount of time. “Until now, the geometry of the structure being inspected had to be entered and uploaded to the devices to obtain an accurate image of the inside of the material,” said Sébastien Robert, a research engineer at LIST. “The pre-inspection profilometry of parts was not possible in all situations and took a lot of time.”

REAL-TIME, PARALLEL COMPUTING Image construction by ATFM draws on real-time processing algorithms to measure the profile of the component under the sensor and construct an accurate image of the inside of the material. With parallel computing on FPGAs (circuits made up of several independent, programmable units), several tasks, such as signal processing and image computation, can be executed simul-taneously. “ATFM substantially reduces the time it takes to inspect complex structures and can also correct the effects of probe positioning issues on a robot’s trajectory,” said Sébastien Robert.

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ATFM SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCES THE TIME IT TAKES TO INSPECT COMPLEX STRUCTURES AND CAN ALSO CORRECT THE EFFECTS OF PROBE POSITIONING ISSUES ON A ROBOT’S TRAJECTORY.

Gekko portable 64-channel tester Ultrasonic array and flexible wedge ATFM imaging


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LASER ULTRASONIC TESTING OF 3D-PRINTED PARTSAdditive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3D printing, is becoming increasingly common in a broad range of industries to manufacture small runs of complex parts. However, quality control and assurance methods to ensure the reliability of parts manufactured using 3D printing must be developed. LIST completed proof-of-concept testing on a laser ultrasonic quality control

method that is contactless, non-destructive, does not alter the manufacturing process, and can detect buried defects. Additional development work is underway to further improve the technology and make it more reliable before it can be transferred to industrial partners in France like BeAM, Airbus, DCNS, Safran, Poly-shape, and VLM.

RAPID SIMULATION OF MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION PROCESSESIn the steel industry, non-destructive testing (NDT) processes are increasingly used to check that rolls of sheet metal coming off production lines present uniform mechanical properties. In research conducted under the EU PUC (Product Uniformity Control) project, LIST developed a software module for electromagnetic characterization applications that can simulate the response of the system measuring the resistance to traction and maximum elasticity of the steel used by most European manufacturing companies.

The software module is fast and stable, using an innovative dedicated modal approach developed in partnership with the University of Western Macedonia, Greece and supported by the Institut Carnot Civamont project. The module will soon be integrated into the CIVA simulation platform, the world’s leading NDT platform developed by LIST.

FIRST-EVER TEST OF AN INNOVATIVE SHM SYSTEM ON AN A380 NACELLE Structural health monitoring (SHM) uses embedded sensors to measure the aging of a structure in real time in order to make maintenance more efficient. LIST developed a SHM system for a composite nacelle for the Airbus A380 manufactured by Safran. The ultrasound-based system uses a network of thin piezoelectric sensors to scan the entire material, detecting structural defects earlier and more accurately.

OLIVIER ROY Technical Director, M2M

ATFM, used in conjunction with TFM, is very easy to use in the field, especially in cases where traditional techniques are not suitable. Having ATFM on Gekko is a strategic competitive advantage for us, and we have already seen the results on the oil and gas market. The joint development work by LIST and M2M on Gekko brought

us an innovative portable testing device that we are manufacturing and successfully selling to customers in several industries, plus a platform the CEA is using to develop new methods that align closely with real-world uses. These synergies facilitate the transfer of LIST’s technologies to industry.


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The first development work and testing completed on a life-sized nacelle resulted in the validation of the system at a minimum TRL of 2. Reliability testing – a step toward certification – will be done by simulation using CIVA software.

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STELLAR, a hardware/software component

design architecture for the transportation industry

ist developed its Stellar com-puting architecture to meet automotive and aeronautics manufacturing companies’ need for embedded mul-

ticore architectures capable of handling mixed-criticality applications. Stellar is based on open-source RISC-V processors. “Stellar is a system-on-chip made up of multiple heteroge-neous computing processors and accelerators dedicated to vision and artificial intelligence applications,” said Nicolas Ventroux, head of the Computing and Design Environment Laboratory at LIST. “These processors, which have heterogeneous functions, share sets of RISC-V instructions from the same fam-ily with a microarchitecture and hardware extensions that are dissimilar.” With Stellar, managing heterogeneousness is transparent for the developer, which results in enhanced

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The Stellar computing architecture developed by LIST is high-performance,

modular, flexible, and energy-efficient – everything industrial companies

need to integrate digital services into their products more easily.

performance and lower energy consumption. The entire hardware infrastructure can be generated automatically – a capability that substantially increases productivity.

The benefits offered by Stellar provide a fast response to manufacturing companies’ needs and give LIST a major catalyst for new partnerships.

For validation purposes, a version of Stellar built on four heterogeneous processors was implemented on a Synopsys emulator, where it successfully executed a Linux sys-tem. “This version was also synthesized on 28nm FDSOI to characterize its performance. On a chip measuring less than 2 sq. mm with L1 and L2 memory caches, a frequency of around 800 MHz was obtained for average energy consumption of less than 1 watt in typical conditions,” said Ventroux.

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THREE CRYPTOCOMPUTING-SECURED SERVICES FOR PROFESSIONALSHomomorphic cryptocomputing can compute encrypted data without having to decrypt it first, ensuring the confidentiality of data during processing. LIST demonstrated the relevance of the technique in real-world industrial conditions for different services (in-home patient monitoring, legal analysis of encrypted documents, IT system intrusion detection, etc.) developed using the institute’s dedicated CINGULATA compiler.

NEON IMPLEMENTS SDN NETWORK SERVICE IN JUST SECONDSSDN (software-defined networking), is an emerging approach to networking spurred by the shift of cellular communications to 5G. LIST developed NEON, an SDN software solution for the implementation of trusted industrial networks that offer the flexibility required to adapt to the Factory of the Future. NEON’s performance was evaluated under the SIGMONA (SDN Concept in Generalized Mobile Network Architectures) project. The tests demonstrated that an IPv6 mobility service could be implemented on an SDN network in just a few seconds, as opposed to several hours for a conventional network. NEON is a fast, easy network reconfiguration solution that is well-suited to the digital factory, providing features that are crucial to optimizing the flexibility, resilience, performance, and cybersecurity of these networks.

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JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JAMMESHead of the R&D Program, Safran Electronics & Defense

LIST worked with Safran to analyze the temporal predictability of Kalray’s MPPA-256 manycore processor and to build a demonstrator system combining applications with different degrees of criticality. “LIST helped us overcome several technological hurdles that enabled us to consider using this type of processor architecture for Safran’s

cyber physical systems. LIST’s researchers brought in-depth knowledge of these complex architectures and their programming environments and a capacity to envisage actual implementation in industrial environments. LIST offers great teamwork, flexibility, and communication – all of which benefitted our project.”

EMBEDDED COMPUTING: LOWER ENERGY CONSUMPTION FOR EQUIVALENT PERFORMANCETo an increasing extent, energy consumption is an obstacle to embedded architectures. LIST developed a self-tuning framework to optimize the implementation of an embedded software application. The framework is based on the deGoal runtime code generation technology developed by LIST. The technology requires just a few kb of memory and is suitable for low-resource systems to make the most efficient use of the nature of the data, the characteristics of the microarchitecture, and the nature of the program. The result is the same execution performance on a simple processor as on a complex processor while reducing energy consumption by up to 40%.

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he BINSEC platform of-fers approaches to formal analysis for executable code sensitive to program semantics – in other words,

the program’s behavior – rather than to just syntax. “These approaches can accurately analyze unknown binary code to uncover vulnerabilities or for back-engineering with regard to the target architecture,” explained Sébastien Bardin, a research engineer at LIST. LIST overcame three chal-lenges: the relatively unstructured nature of executable code, scale-up to non-critical programs, and the possibility of an attacker capable of exploiting the weaknesses of third-party code or hiding the malicious be-havior of the attacker’s code. “We modelled machine instructions in a minimal logic lan-guage and used novel reasoning and explo-ration techniques.”

THE RESULT OF EIGHT YEARS OF RESEARCH IN SOFTWARE SAFETY AND SECURITYLIST’s know-how in the formal analysis of binary code enabled some major technical advances. “We developed the first concise, formal intermediary representation for bina-ry-code analysis providing multi-architecture support and facilitating the development of new analyses.”

LIST also developed the first accurate approach to executing binary code to reconstruct algorithm structures and an exhaustive method for analyzing the reconstructed program to identify the resulting risks. The BINSEC prototype was successfully tested on different systems: embedded software for the aeronautics industry, Linux coreutils, Windows malware, and part of the NIST vulnerabilities database.

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Previously, binary-code analysis could only be completed using methods with

limited efficiency. LIST’s BINSEC platform now offers an innovative behavioral

analysis approach to boost software security.

BINSEC: new milestones in

binary-code analysis


FORMAL APPROACHES ENABLE AN ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF UNKNOWN BINARY CODE TO IDENTIFY VULNERABILITIES OR FOR BACK-ENGINEERING PURPOSES.Sébastien BARDIN,Research engineer

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MARKO ERMAN Senior Vice President and CTO, Thales

Thales and LIST developed a novel solution to ensure the security of cryptographic code. “At Thales we feel strongly that the future is in natively secure solutions that integrate cybersecurity at all levels, including overall architecture and networks, of course,

but also – and most importantly – software and, in particular, communications and data encryption application modules. The work being done at FormalLab in this field represents a shift away from traditional cybersecurity practices to head off constantly-changing cyber-threats.”

C# INDUSTRIAL SUPERVISION CODE FORMALLY VERIFIED One of the major technical challenges addressed by the CEA’s cybersecurity R&D program is the reliability of industrial process control and supervision software. LIST completed an in-depth evaluation of two Microsoft verification tools based on formal methods: CodeContracts (statistical analysis) and IntelliTest (dynamic analysis). The tools were applied to C# code from a representative use case, demonstrating a high level of trust in the code verified. The evaluation identified the capabilities and limitations of the Microsoft tools and confirmed the relevance of LIST’s analysis tool development methods based on C and C++, which is more widely used.

VIDEO GAMES TO VERIFY PROGRAMSVerifying critical information systems is becoming increasingly complex. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program on crowdsourcing costly formal code analysis. The approach combines the thoroughness of code analysis methods based on mathematical principles and the attractiveness of online gaming – and it could potentially speed up the production of reliable systems and reduce costs. As a participant in the DARPA program, LIST contributed to the emergence of a new field at the crossroads of formal verification and video games.

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LIST MAKES ADVANCE IN DETECTABILITY OF ATTACKS ON THE GRIDLIST is driving advances in the cybersecurity of smart grids to protect them from theft and terrorist attacks. LIST’s solution combines model-driven engineering using Papyrus software and formal methods using Diversity software to install attack detectors on the consumption controllers at the electric utility’s site, facilitating protection. An experimental implementation at an ENGIE test site in Toulouse was successful.

VIRTUALIZING ELECTRONICS PLATFORMS FOR EARLY HARDWARE-SOFTWARE INTEGRATIONLIST developed virtualization techniques for electronics platforms to enable industrial companies to develop their capacity to pre-integrate software on virtualized targets. A model of the technology was built and a technical and financial analysis was completed. Research that began in 2015 was applied to real-time systems with a high degree of operating safety. Safran is one of LIST’s partners in this research in the avionics industry, for example.

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BIG DATA & IoTDIGITAL INTELLIGENCE

N2D2:the platform that

accelerates deep learning

or image recognition, N2D2 makes it possible to factor in extrinsic criteria, beyond merely optimizing classification

performance, when designing neural networks. “In the case of neural networks applied to the detection of defects on a manufacturing line, for example, the manufacturer’s main criteria would be latency in image recognition to keep defect detection from slowing down the line. N2D2 optimizes the network and ensures the most appropriate execution on the material being inspected to deliver quality and detection speed,” said Sandrine Varenne, in charge of industrial partnerships for the Design Architecture and Embedded Software Department.

LIST’s know-how in deep learning com-bined with development work (platform, neural IPs) has garnered interest from a number of industrial companies, either for their own needs or their custom-ers’ needs. “The platform can be used in a number of areas, including the Factory of the Future, transportation, healthcare, urban mobility, assistance systems, and smart marketing. Talks are underway concerning new partnerships.”

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The N2D2 (Neural Network Design and Deployment) platform developed by LIST

is used to design, explore, and port optimized neural networks. It specifically

targets embedded systems – a major advantage over current platforms.


ACCELERATION PERFORMANCE USEFUL TO A RANGE OF INDUSTRIES

“N2D2 was designed to support multiple programming models and enable the generation of the appropriate code depending on the hardware component on which the code will be executed. These can be commercially-available components (CPU, GPU, FPGA) or CEA in-house solutions (like the PNeuro programmable ultra-low-energy neuronal co-processor, which can be implemented on ASIC or FPGA, or DNeuro, a library dedicated to neural networks for FPGA) to achieve optimal performance. Compared to an NVidia Tegra K1

graphics card, the PNeuro integrated circuit is seven times faster and uses 200 times less energy; the DNeuro imple-mented on FPGA is 12.5 faster and uses 30 times less energy.

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ASSISTED LIVING: BEHAVIORAL ANOMALIES DETECTEDSchneider Electric developed a system of in-home motion sensors to improve the safety of seniors living at home. The non-intrusive, easy-to-use system includes a real-time behavioral anomaly detection technology developed by LIST. After a learning phase, the system can use the data from the sensors to detect changes in the occupant’s habits (getting up more frequently at night, going out at unusual times) that could indicate cause for concern.

BUILDING THERMAL PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT MADE SIMPLEDetermining a building’s thermal performance can help assess construction quality and evaluate the energy-related properties of the building envelope before a renovation, for example. LIST used thermal-electric analogy modelling to develop and test a reverse modelling software application that combines a simplified physical model of the building envelope with optimization algorithms. The software can calculate the actual thermal coefficients of building walls and windows based on data collected on site. The innovative, patented system is simple, reliable, non-intrusive, and affordable.

In technical fields, regulations vary from one country to another and change regularly. LIST completed proof-of-concept testing and began scaling up technology bricks based on its LIMA (LIST Multilingual Analyzer) tool to enable Bureau Veritas to reduce its regulatory intelligence costs. Bureau Veritas, which provides compliance and certification services, will have an effective new multilingual tool to gather, filter, and analyze documents. The cost-effective tool, which also learns quickly, will also be useful in other fields.

DEEP MANTA NEURAL NETWORK WINS KITTI BENCHMARKLIST developed an automated 3D detection and analysis system to detect vehicles from a monocular image. Deep MANTA is based on learning by a bio-inspired convolutional deep neural network. The new multi-task approach (recognition of the type of vehicle, direction, 3D location) delivers extremely accurate results, earning it the automotive industry’s Kitti Benchmark award. The award will help raise LIST’s international profile as a center for expertise in scene analysis technology.

VÉRONIQUE BOUTINR&D project manager, Schneider Electric

LIST worked with Véronique Boutin, R&D project manager at Schneider Electric, on the actimetrics and analytics components of a sensor system project for assisted living applications.“Our work with LIST was very technical, focusing on the data acquired by the sensors,

the control system that allows the solution to learn people’s habitual behavior, and the use of the pattern to detect behavioral anomalies. LIST’s know-how in statistics enabled us to determine the analytics required and get them to work on the different data sets. The project was a very productive one!”

INNOVATION IN THE DETECTION OF VIOLENT EVENTSLIST develops and optimizes computer-based vision technologies for automated scene analysis for security applications. The institute developed an innovative violent-event sensor that can recognize abnormal, sudden, or erratic movements from video surveillance footage in real time. A solution based on the technology was implemented on 28 SNCF (the French national rail operator) cameras during the Euro 2016, where it automatically detected turbulence and violent events between fans with a very low false-alarm rate.

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BIG DATA & IoT

JEAN-YVES PORTALFront Office Manager, Marketing, Sales, and Intermodal Transportation, Keolis

“Our R&D project with LIST provided an opportunity to bring two different worlds together – each with its own ways of working, constraints, and notions of time – and get them to understand each other, work together, and deliver a result that we are completely satisfied with. The project made us want to pursue this path toward a more modern, dynamic

experience. Contributing to this remarkable innovation gave our people a sincere feeling of pride and a desire to see the project scaled up for widespread adoption. Feedback from users was also very positive: 82% of them felt that the project was useful, proving that the project has a place on our network.”

NEURAL NETWORK IMAGE RECOGNITION FOR VIDEO ANALYSISManually annotating audio and video content does not generally provide complete or consistent enough information to fully leverage a catalogue of video content. France Télévisions, France’s national television broadcasting company, turned to LIST to come up with solution to recognize both faces and sports. LIST leveraged its strong know-how in deep learning for image recognition to develop a tool capable of automatically identifying nearly 15,000 people and around 20 different sports in real time. The institute completed a demonstration of its semantic analysis tool for video content on footage of the 2016 French Open tennis tournament.

PAPYRUS: FROM IOT SYSTEMS MODELLING TO SUPERVISIONThe S3P project was set up to create a powerful, reliable, and secure platform for the development and execution of software for the Internet of Things (IoT). LIST expanded its Papyrus open-source model-driven engineering software to come up with an initial prototype of an integrated development and supervision platform dedicated to IoT applications. A demonstrator developed in partnership with PrismTech and MicroEJ proved the relevance of using model-driven engineering for the development and supervision of IoT applications in a single, integrated environment.

CONNECTED SOLES REDUCE THE RISK OF STROKE In research conducted under the EU project STARR coordinated by the CEA, LIST developed an in-home monitoring system to reduce the risk of recurrent stroke for victims of previous strokes and patients suffering from hemiplegia in particular. The institute developed soles equipped with inertial and pressure sensors to measure the level of physical activity and prevent motor dysfunction. The data from the sensors are sent to a server that can be accessed by the patient and doctor via dedicated applications.

URBAN GEOLOCATION DEMO FOR THE CITY OF BORDEAUX TRAMWAYThe purpose of the Connectram project, spearheaded by public transportation operator Keolis Bordeaux Métropole, was to give passengers on Bordeaux’s tramway an augmented-reality experience by providing them with geolocated information on connections with other means of transportation. LIST, in partnership with AXYZ, adapted a technology it had developed to geolocate objects in complex environments and reconstruct trajectories in real time to calculate the tramway’s position and direction. Two tramways were equipped with four prototypes and put into operation. Passengers were able to benefit from augmented reality to discover the future Euratlantique neighborhood and get practical information to facilitate their journey. A survey revealed that 87% of users found the information useful. The demonstrator presented to Keolis resulted in a project to scale up the system and commercialize it on other lines in 2019.

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MULTI-MODE RADIOMICS to plan cancer treatments


urrently, doctors must rely on the patient’s file and medical imaging (scans or MRIs) to determine the size and type of tissue affected by tumors

to plan radiotherapy treatments. “This practice is time consuming and can introduce variations from one doctor to another, in particular when investigating the fine structures of tumors, like necrosis and active lesions,” said Éric Barat, a research engineer at LIST.

TOWARD FASTER, MORE ACCURATE TREATMENTIn research conducted under the collaborative PIM (Physics for Instrumentation in Medicine) project, LIST developed a sttistics-based software application to predict multi-mode segment ation combining data from three imaging sources

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LIST is helping improve the personalized treatment

of cancer patients by leveraging software based

on multi-mode radiomics, a field that combines several

types of medical imaging with statistical analysis.

(CAT scans, MRIs, and PET scans) and that has a 2D/3D interface. “This non-supervised soft-ware responds to practitioners’ need for assisted, accelerated tumor segmentation and annotation for the creation of databases.”

For glioma, for example, the software’s algorithm identifies all of the tissue signa-tures of the tumor and gives the practitioner a complete map of the affected areas. “It provides quantitative data and 3D renderings of the structures, rather than segment-by-segment, which helps the practitioner better analyze the area and determine the appro-priate dose,” said Barat.

The software is being used for a project at the Institut Gustave Roussy to identify biomark-ers for the early diagnosis of recurrence in patients with advanced-stage brain tumors. Ultimately, the technique could be used in clinical settings.

IT PROVIDES QUANTITATIVE DATA AND 3D RENDERINGS OF THE STRUCTURES.Éric BARAT,Research engineer

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TOWARD LOWER IRRADIATION DOSES IN SCANNER IMAGING Protecting patients from radiation during X-ray scans is a major public health issue. LIST developed a method that can reduce patient exposure to irradiation without compromising the quality of the images obtained. The method simulates the delivered-dose-to-organs calculation and uses an objective measurement – the Rose criterion – to evaluate image quality. According to an initial study, the dose of irradiation received by the patient can be reduced up to six-fold using this method. LIST is pursuing the research, now focusing on image quality evaluation criteria close to the performance of the human eye.

THE RADIOSENSITIZING EFFECT OF HYDROGENATED NANODIAMONDS DEMONSTRATED IN VIVORadiosensitizers can augment the effects of radiotherapy on resistant tumors and lower irradiation doses. LIST developed radiosensitizing hydrogenated nanodiamonds capable of generating electrons in solution when exposed to radiation. These electrons result in the over generation of free radicals in tumor cells during radiotherapy. The nanoparticles’ radiosensitizing effect and non-toxicity were demonstrated in vivo on xenografts on mice, where tumor growth was demonstrated to be slowed down substantially.

SPECTROMETRY FOR THE CONTROL OF MEDICAL IMAGING EQUIPMENTDosimetric controls of X-ray imaging and irradiation systems are becoming increasingly common in healthcare and industry. LIST developed an experimental system that uses spectrometry to measure the photon beams produced by X-ray generators and post-processing software to correct the spectra of effects that cause their deformation. The system was successfully tested on medical imaging beams produced by a scanner and a cone beam scanner at the Doseo radiotherapy research platform.

DAVID GIBONCEO, Aquilab

Aquilab, France’s leading developer of quality control software for radiotherapy and imaging equipment, is testing a new method called EPIDREAM. LIST is validating the company’s conversion model and evaluating two new statistical comparison metrics. “Our project is still in progress. However, the initial results are very encouraging. LIST’s Monte Carlo simulation methods are proving

effective for the validation of the conversion models we integrate into our products to analyze the quality of irradiation beams used in radiotherapy. This is our first project with LIST and we are very satisfied. The institute possesses the skilled scientists and radiotherapy equipment required to run end-to-end projects encompassing theory and practical testing.”

IRRADIATION DOSES MEASURED IN 3DToday’s increasingly complex radiotherapy techniques – which allow practitioners to adjust the volume and intensity of doses delivered to patients – have created new needs in terms of dosimetry. LIST developed a stable, easy-to-use dosimetric gel, which, when used for MRIs, can measure dose distributions in 3D. An initial study demonstrated the feasibility of the method, which can be used both in medical physics and for specific metrology applications.

NEW TOOLS FOR THE STUDY OF METABOLOMIC DATAMetabolomics – the study of the small molecule involved in the biochemistry of metabolism – is a promising approach for the identification of new biomarkers and personalized medicine. As bioinformatics coordinator of the national MetaboHUB infrastructure, LIST made two major additions to its statistics toolkit: OPLS (orthogonal projections to latent structures, a multivariate regression and classification method), and a new “biosigner” algorithm for the selection of molecular signatures.The tools were integrated into the Workflow4metabolomics.org online platform created in partnership with the IFB (French Institute for Bioinformatics). New preprocessing and annotation modules under development at LIST will soon round out the metabolomic data analysis workflow.

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STARTUP NEWS

Since 2001, 21 startups have been spun off from LIST research projects. Most of these companies were founded by LIST researchers and, together, they have created 300 jobs. LIST startups facilitate the transfer of the institute’s tools and know-how to businesses, scaling up new technologies, packaging them for market release, and developing associated services.

LIST startups,facilitating technology transfer

ARCURE GROWING ON EXPORT SALESArcure designs solutions to augment the autonomy of industrial equipment. The company once again saw its revenue grow by more than 50% this year, driven to a large extent by export sales. Leading forklift manufacturer Jungheinrich

has integrated Arcure’s Blaxtair solution into its vehicles to stop them automatically if the risk of a collision with a person is detected, firmly positioning Arcure at the forefront of autonomous vehicle development.

KALRAYKALRAY SPEEDS-UP ITS DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH-CAPACITY COMPUTING PROCESSORSKalray, based near Grenoble, France, was founded in 2008 to develop a new generation of processors based on a unique, massively-parallel architecture of several hundred microprocessors. The company’s products offer processing power, low energy consumption, low latency, and operating security. Just three years after raising $8 million in capital from investment funds ACE Management and CEA Investissement, Kalray raised an additional €23.6 million from Safran and an Asian investment fund.

DIOTA RAMPING UP ITS DEVELOPMENTDiota successfully completed its first round of fundraising, bringing in €3 million to speed up the industrial rollout of its solutions in France and on other European markets. The company also doubled its headcount, growing from 20 to 40 employees. Finally, Diota won the Jury’s Grand Prize in the l’Usine nouvelle magazine Numerical Simulation Awards.

RB3DRB3D EXPANDING RAPIDLY RB3D, a France-based designer and manufacturer of biomechatronic tools increased its cobot deliveries by 50% this year and is gearing up to deliver its first industrial exoskeletons. The startup signed a partnership agreement with Bouygues public works subsidiary Colas that is expected to result in the sale of its Exo Push exoskeletons designed to facilitate the laying of asphalt.

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TRUSTINSOFTTRUSTINSOFT LEVERAGES FRAMA-CCybersecurity startup TrustInSoft offers its customers source-code analysis tools and services that enable them to guarantee their software. The company uses LIST’s Frama-C technology, which provides a mathematical guarantee of software quality for more robust IT security. The company raised funds to develop a range of web-based solutions, and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) highlighted the benefits of TrustInSoft solutions in a government report submitted to the White House.

HAPTIONHGLOVE BRINGS FORCE FEEDBACK TO YOUR FINGERTIPSHaption presented an operational prototype of its future product, the HGlove, in the United States. The glove recreates the sensation of picking up an object in a virtual environment. This advanced and differentiating solution is positioned to become a leader on this high-growth market.

KRONO-SAFEKRONO-SAFE ENTERS MBSE AND AUTOMOTIVE MARKETSKrono-Safe, which develops innovative solutions for critical real-time systems, was founded in 2011 and is continuing to grow. The company opened an R&D facility in Vannes, France and expanded its Asterios product line with new features. Asterios products can now be used via connectors with MBSE (model-based systems engineering) and AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) tools.

WIN MSWIN MS EXPANDS INTERNATIONALLY AND ADDRESSES VOLUME MARKETSWiN MS now generates half of its revenue from export sales and has earned the trust of aeronautics-industry leaders including US-based Boeing. A strategic partnership with Safran Electrical & Power further demonstrated the industry’s interest in WiN MS solutions.

In other news, WiN MS is also investing in integrating MCTDR (multicarrier time-domain reflectometry) onto an ASIC to address volume markets with a cost-effective product. The company successfully completed its first round of tests on 20,000 V power lines. It also opened an office in Stuttgart to support its growth on the automotive market.

ANT’INNO DEVELOPS TECHNOLOGY WITH CHINESE PARTNERThe CEA Military Applications Division (DAM/DIF) acquired the new version of the Ant’Inno platform. The update features an overhauled linguistic index management mechanism and a new feature, the automated extraction of named entities. The company also entered into a partnership with China’s Harbin Institute of Technology to develop an analysis module for Mandarin Chinese. Finally, Ant’Inno is now posting two articles per week on LinkedIn and Twitter and sends a monthly newsletter out to all of its contacts. The newsletter is also available on Ant’Inno’s website.

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The “Carnot 3” seal was awarded based on several criteria: a well-defined scope that is easy for businesses to understand, a firm commitment to contract research, and solid governance. The criteria were designed to ensure the quality of the selection process and create mutual trust and direct relationships between public research and businesses. LIST saw its seal renewed for the second time in 2016, becoming Institut Carnot for Digital Technology at the University of Paris-Saclay (TN@UPSaclay).

LIST INSTITUT CARNOT SEAL RENEWEDfor the second time in 2016

InstitutCarnot:a label of excellence

LIST has earned the French government’s

prestigious Institut Carnot label of

excellence for public research organizations,

evidence of the institute’s high standards

and professionalism. LIST saw its Instituts

Carnot seal renewed in 2016.

he mission of the Instituts Carnot network is to bring technological research organizations and businesses together. The goal is to help businesses innovate, penetrate new markets,

and create jobs. The French ministry that oversees research grants the seal to government research organizations for a duration of six years through a rigorous selection process and compliance with a charter. LIST’s high-quality research partnerships first earned the Institut Carnot label in 2006.

LIST fulfills all of the requirements of the Instituts Carnot: A proactive strategy targeting industrial companies

and, in particular, small-to mid-sized businesses. LIST’s Industrial Partnerships team actively prospects and organizes events for businesses. Continuous improvement of the institute’s processes

and level of professionalism. LIST is ISO 9001 certified, uses a CRM, and takes a project-based approach to structuring its partnerships with industrial companies. Partnership development: LIST works with around

200 industrial companies each year; 40% are small-to-mid-sized businesses. Pump-priming research: 25% of LIST’s operating

budget is allocated to pump-priming research targeting the major challenges of the future. These include the digital factory, non-destructive testing, robotics for healthcare, and new computing architectures. A contribution to strengthening the Instituts Carnot

as a network.

A research partnership with a member of the Instituts Carnot network like LIST provides businesses with several guarantees: scientific and technological excellence, professional project management, a capacity to understand future market needs, and the strength of a network.

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520JOINT R&D LABS with companies

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€700 MIN CONTRACT RESEARCH REVENUE (€600 million of which is from contracts with businesses)

11,000RESEARCH CONTRACTS PER YEAR, 4,700 of which are with SMBs

1,000PATENTS FILED, each year

€ 362 M IN REVENUE FROM COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS involving businesses (nearly one-third from EU projects)

LIST ENGAGED IN

ManufacturingThis program addresses all companies based in France and, in particular, SMBs that have adopted strategies to bring innovation into their manufacturing processes to boost their competitiveness. The program covers several topics related to the Factory of the Future, including: new manufacturing processes, agile manufacturing systems, and the digital factory for SMBs. Cetim is the lead on this program, which is operated by eleven members of the Instituts Carnot network with a total of 40 technology platforms for R&D, proof-of-concept testing, and feasibility studies. Companies can work on 3D printing (additive manufacturing), smart machines, virtual design, process supervision and optimization, and more. Carnauto (Automotive

and Mobility)SMBs in the automotive and mobility industries that participate in the Carnauto program benefit from the know-how of nine members of the Instituts Carnot network offering a total of 65 technology platforms. The program focuses on topics like smart transportation and autonomous vehicles and targets three market segments: motorisation, materials and architectures, and ICTs.

Findmed (Pharmaceuticals)This consortium of eleven members of the Instituts Carnot network supports the industrial development of drug companies in France by offering its partners a well-structured lineup of R&D services and access to academic research facilities. Findmed is very active, with 175 R&D contracts in progress with SMBs. The topics addressed are diverse and include oncology, infectious disease, galenics, bioinformatics, chemistry, and systems biology. The program draws on the resources of 56 technology platforms. LIST contributes know-how in the field of radiation with its Doseo platform.

Capme’upThis program is operated by three members of the Instituts Carnot network: LIST, IFPEN, and Cetim. Its mission is to help SMBs get their innovation projects up and running by providing technology audits, access to technology platforms, a comprehensive range of innovation support services, and assistance applying

for financing. The program covers mechanical engineering, digital systems, transportation, and energy. Capme’up has three technology platforms dedicated to innovative non-destructive testing methods, interactive robotics, and the new product development cycle.

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Partnership models to meet the needs of industrial companies

LIST offers single-partner research contracts, joint innovation labs,

and strategic partnerships – models that were developed to meet the unique

needs of industrial companies of all sizes, from SMBs to multinational

corporations. The variety of partnership models available gives

LIST the flexibility and responsiveness to adapt to the demands

and expectations of all types of companies.

Single-partner contracts

Each year, LIST signs more than 200 single-partner innovation contracts from six months to three years. These contracts are most appropriate for industrial companies seeking to make the best use of their resources to support innovation, improve a process with a fast return on investment, or work with a research institute for the first time. Both parties commit to the development of an innovation and a deliverable. These contracts can be set up to pursue the work completed under a collaborative research project, such as those funded by the French National Research Agency, French Single Interministerial Fund, or EU.

LIST offers innovations in data science and artificial intelligence. Although they

are not yet widely used in our industry, we are working actively on these technologies to prepare for Industry 4.0. LIST TechDays provide great networking and opportunities to learn about the emerging technologies that will shape the future of our manufacturing activities.

Patrice HUMBERT Innovation Working Progress & Facilities Manager, Groupe BEL

Joint labs

Whether it is to release a new product or process on the market, make a breakthrough innovation, or broaden the scope of a technology, industrial companies can set up a joint lab with LIST. A contract – generally three years renewable – outlining mutual commitments is signed for a specific but flexible project. The topics to be addressed are determined depending on the partner’s needs. At end-2016, LIST was running 20 joint labs with industrial partners.

LIST PARTNERSHIP MODELS SCOR, a leading reinsurance

company, strives to know as much as it can about the risks it reinsures. To make

sure we do, we wanted to fully leverage information from

different databases. I was truly impressed by the knowledge of the LIST researchers that work on these topics. They were able to respond very rapidly to our needs, completing proof-of-concept testing on a business case for a Chinese customer that wanted to extract information from patients’ medical records. We are now implementing the solution and plan to expand its use to other products and markets.

Razvan IONESCU Head of Longevity R&D Centre, SCOR Global Life

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As a long-standing LIST innovation partner, our decision to send our team to Nano-Innov to work on autonomous

vehicle development – a topic we are pursuing actively –

was clear. The autonomous vehicle presents some major technological challenges spanning many fields, including connectivity, embedded systems cybersecurity, and high-performance computing. LIST has extensive know-how in these fields. A year into the project, we are already seeing tangible and promising results in terms of embedded systems performance – reason to extend the partnership and perhaps even expand it to other areas.

Laurent TAUPIN Chief Engineer, Autonomous Driving, Renault

We are proud to host a technological innovation incubator at our Trémery-

Metz site. This truly novel platform is located right in our manufacturing plant, and it will help make our vision of the Factory of the Future a reality and integrate new technologies into our plants more rapidly.

Strategic partnerships

This form of partnership is designed for market-leading industrial companies, either to keep up with a rapidly-changing technology or to respond rapidly to demanding markets. Strategic partnership contracts are signed with CEA Tech, giving the partner access to the technological assets of the three CEA Tech institutes, List, Leti, and Liten. The contracts outline mutual commitments and are generally signed for a three- to five-year period. The partnerships can cover a wide range of topics and adjustments can be made during the contract period in response to research results and market priorities.

We started working with LIST in 2013 on embedded systems, which are playing an increasing

role in industrial equipment. In particular, we focused on software reliability and cybersecurity. We chose LIST because it is at the international state of the art in this field and because it is crucial for a certification organization like ours to make sure we have the most up-to-date knowledge available on a topic that is constantly changing. Our partnership with LIST has already resulted in a set of methodological guidelines to evaluate the reliability of embedded software.

Laurent MIDRIER VP Strategy & Innovation, BUREAU VERITAS

“Off-site” partnerships

In cases where setting up a long-term joint team is not necessary, partnerships can take the form of a series of meetings in the field and regular communication between LIST and the partner. The goal is to accurately assess the partner’s needs and gather the required information for the joint development of technological solutions. LIST and Bureau Veritas are using

this partnership model to develop an automated multilingual regulatory intelligence tool.

Affiliate programs

These programs involve people from LIST and one or more industrial partners and focus on a given topic. The purpose is to respond to common needs and develop operational solutions. Technology providers, integrators, and end users (corporations, SMBs, and research organizations) come together for short, efficient projects. FactoryLab (which involves LIST,

Cetim, Arts et Métiers ParisTech and a consortium of industrial companies) develops and implements solutions for augmented reality, the digitization of manufacturing, among others.

A PRESENCE THROUGHOUT FRANCE CEA Tech has set up six regional technology-transfer platforms, enabling List to give access to its technical experts in most of France’s major industrial hubs. These experts – generally senior research scientists or engineers – can assess business needs specific to their regions’ industrial ecosystems and work with partners to determine which topics and partnership models are the most appropriate. They also liaise with the researchers involved in the partner’s project and coordinate the project. Each regional technology-transfer platform has its own facilities and equipment dedicated to meeting the needs of local partners.

INDUSTRIAL MODELS A joint lab in a single locationwith a common team

LIST and the industrial partner set up a joint team and sign a minimum three-year renewable contract outlining the partners’ mutual commitments. On the partner’s premises (R&D center or plant) LIST and Thales set up the joint VisionLab

in 2009. A team of around ten LIST research scientists and engineers are currently working on-site at the Thales R&D center.

Yann VINCENT Industrial Director, PSA

LIST researchers are working on-site at a 1,000 sq. m innovation platform at PSA’s motor manufacturing plant in Trémery, France.

AT List’s premises LIST has the capacity to host industrial R&D teams working on a specific topic. A team of around 40 engineers

in charge of autonomous vehicle development at Renault is working full time at Nano-Innov, a LIST facility.

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FactoryLab

The FactoryLab community, located at Nano-INNOV on the Paris-Saclay

campus, brings industrial companies and academic research labs together.

FactoryLab’s strength lies in its capacity to pool all members’ resources

and knowledge to respond to “industry of the future” challenges.

actoryLab is a unique community which facilitates the transfer of research results to industry by getting people

representing different industries and technologies working together, whether they are end users, or technology providers or integrators. As a founding member of FactoryLab, LIST serves as both prime contractor and provider of innovative technology. From its inception, the FactoryLab initiative earned the backing of major corporations (PSA, Safran, DCNS, Dassault Systèmes, Actemium) and is supported by academic research labs associated with

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AMM20: Mobile handling assistance of loads of around 50 kg (Naval Group, Safran, PSA, Actemium, LIST, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Cetim, Dassault Systèmes)

OUTPORT: Tool-positioning assistance combined with an industrial process (Safran, Naval Group, PSA, Dassault Systèmes, Actemium, LIST, Cetim)

VISROB: Torque screwing solution offering a small form factor and continuous quality control (Safran, Actemium, LIST, Arts et Métiers ParisTech)

ASSERVUS: Portable tightening solution with torque measurements in US units (Naval Group, PSA, Safran, Actemium, LIST, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Cetim)

LIST, Cetim, and Arts et Métiers ParisTech. FactoryLab’s mission is to respond to needs shared by several end-users. It also enables technology providers to better understand industrial customers’ needs and gain insights into how their technologies can be used. Finally, FactoryLab helps emerging technologies developed by SMBs to make their way to the market.

The community focuses on: The agile digital factory, Manufacturing and control process

automation, Physical and cognitive assistance

for operators.

FOUR INNOVATION PROJECTS

AGORA: Augmented-reality control, assembly, and maintenance assistance (Naval Group, PSA, Safran, Diota, LIST, Arts et Métiers ParisTech)

SODALITE: Interoperability of production system simulation and optimization tools (Safran, PSA, Naval Group, DPS, Dassault Systèmes, Sherpa, LIST, Arts et Métiers ParisTech)

MANIPRES: Precision load-handling assistance “up to around 125 kg” (Safran, PSA, Actemium, LIST, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Cetim, Dassault Systèmes, Sarrazin)

IMPROVE: Specification and evaluation of a portable interface to present information tailored to the context of the operator in the Factory of the Future (PSA, Goobie, Magillem, LIST)

FACTORYLABKEY FIGURES

16 PROJECTS IN ONE YEAR

€ 4.4 M COMBINED PROJECT BUDGETS IN 2017

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Milestones

LIST presents the Alliance’s technology development priorities to the Steering Committee at a meeting attended by the Minister of the Economy, Industry, and Digital Technology and the Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research.

FEBRUARY 9

The Alliance organizes the fourth plenary session on the Additive Manufacturing Initiative at the Ministry of the Economy with the support of the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry.

JUNE 30FactoryLab, an initiative of the Alliance, opens its doors for the first time at a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by the Secretary of State for Industry, Christophe Sirugue.

SEPTEMBER 28The first-ever “Convergence for the Industry of the Future” event welcomes leaders in the field (including LIST) from France and other European countries. French President François Hollande gave the opening speech at this event that combined the Midest, Smart Industries, and Forum Industrie du Futur trade shows.

DECEMBER 6-9LIST attends Franco-German digital conference in Berlin to develop partnerships between the Industrie 4.0 and Alliance organizations.

DECEMBER 13

WORKING GROUP ON DEVELOPING THE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE LIST co-steers this working group with Technifrance. The group’s aim is to support initiatives that help businesses integrate modern production, design, and supply chain technologies into their organizations. The group has identified seven key topics: The digitization of the value chain Automation/workflow management/process

robotics 3D printing (additive manufacturing),

monitoring and control Composites and new materials/assemblies Man’s role in the factory Energy efficiency, environmental footprint/

integration into the ecosystem.Three sub-groups were formed to work more closely on additive manufacturing, the cybersecurity of industrial systems, and energy efficiency – all deemed to be high-priority topics.

he Alliance currently counts 22 active members, including the CEA, and nine associate members. It was established to coordinate industrial modernization efforts –

and, especially, the digital transformation of industry – at the national level with the support of dedicated working groups.

Regional teams across France made up of Alliance members, government, DIRECCTE (the regional business, labor, and anti-trust commissions), and clusters support SMBs and implement the Alliance’s initiatives locally.

AllianceIndustry of the Future

LIST is a member of the Alliance Industrie du Futur (Industry of the Future Alliance),

an initiative that unites stakeholders from professional organizations, research

organizations, academia, business, and government at the national level to leverage

their know-how for France’s Industrie du Futur roadmap.

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digital hub at Paris-Saclay

The DigiHall project will create a major facility for digital technology research, with

Nano-INNOV at its center. The project will bring together – alongside LIST – the Systematic

Paris-Région cluster, the SystemX Technological Research Institute, Télécom ParisTech, Télécom

Sud Paris, and Inria’s headquarters. However, DigiHall will also be home to organizations that

provide support for technology transfer. Backed by the Île-de-France Regional Council, DigiHall

will form a coherent whole that will effectively drive technology transfer and leverage the

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HIGH-LEVEL DIGITAL INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMThe stakeholders in the DigiHall project cover

the entire innovation spectrum, from state-of-the-art scientific research to industrial applications and partnerships of all kinds. Members of the DigiHall consortium have already earned the trust of major corporations like Safran, Renault, PSA, Valeo, Faurecia, Dassault Systèmes, Air Liquide and Thales – evidence of their ability to effectively respond to the needs of today’s industrial companies.

DigiHall will also raise its members’ profiles and provide them with world-class innovation capabilities on key digital technology issues like cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, IoT, and embedded systems. Paris-Saclay University will also be addressing these topics, further strengthening ties between academic research and technological research and development to support digital transformation.

DIGIHALL’S ROLE: Integrate new research partners (Inria) Organize industrial R&D projects Create a showroom illustrating the

technological innovations developed at Paris-Saclay University Partner with Paris-Saclay University’s

new innovation programs Support LIST’s growth in terms of

industrial partnerships, including with SMBs

DIGIHALL IS A FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE THAT WILL SUPPORT AND PROMOTE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AT PARIS-SACLAY. DigiHall will create an entire research ecosystem at a single location. It will be home to major academic research labs covering a broad range of technologies at different levels of maturity, facilities to host industrial companies that would like to immerse their employees in digital research and open innovation environments. Here, the Paris-Saclay University Design Center will play a role by providing insights into user-centered development and design.

Philippe WATTEAU,Director, LIST

TECHNOLOGY-TRANSFER SERVICES TO DRIVE PARTNERSHIPSDigiHall will work closely with the IPHE incubator, and Incuballiance will be hosted at DigiHall. DigiHall will also be home to technological research organizations like LIST, Télécom ParisTech, Télécom Sud Paris, and Inria (all members of the Instituts Carnot network), as well as technology-transfer organizations like SATT Paris-Saclay. The presence of these organizations will result in collaboration between industrial companies and academic research labs (such as the Technological Research Institutes), either through systems to support the maturation of projects or through closer relationships with the business community and support for business growth provided by the Systematic Paris-Région cluster. The project has earned the staunch support of the Île-de-France Regional Council and has garnered interest from the French Commissioner-General for Investment and investors like the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.

60,000 sq. m DIGIHALL WILLDOUBLE THE CAPACITYof the Saclay campus

1,500RESEARCHERS AND ENGINEERS working together to develop tomorrow’s digital tools

3APPROACHES Research and technology Design and user experience SMBs and large corporations

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ORG CHART

Étienne Garderet

Communications DepartmentÉlisabeth Lefèvre-Remy

Administration and Finance DepartmentPhilippe Lecestre

Deputy Director, Programs Jean-Noël Patillon (interim)

Deputy Director, Industrial Partnerships Laurent Disdier

Deputy Director, Scientific ResearchJean-Noël Patillon

Deputy Director, EuropeGregorio Ameyugo

DACLEEmbedded Software and Architecture Development DepartmentJean-René Lequepeys

DILSSoftware and Systems Engineering Department François Terrier

DIASIAmbient Intelligence and Interactive Systems DepartmentFrançois Gaspard

DISCImaging and Simulation for Testing and Inspection Department Clarisse Poidevin

DM2IMetrology, Instrumentation, and Information DepartmentAlexandre Bounouh

DIRECTOR

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Philippe Watteau

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