Consortium

Sorbonne Université is born from the merger of Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Université Paris Sorbonne. It covers all major disciplinary fields and offers new transversal academic and research programs. It is a multidisciplinary research-intensive excellence university in the center of Paris with three faculties: Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine and Sciences & Engineering.

With more than 53 400 students (among 10 200 international students), 4400 doctoral students and 6300 researchers, Sorbonne Université is one of the leading French universities. The university is involved in numerous European and International partnership agreements and has France’s largest scientific library and infrastructures bringing together the best talent in a wide array of these disciplines. With 8,500 publications per year (approx. 10% of all publications in France), Sorbonne Université is a major player in international knowledge and innovation economy, offering transversal academic and research programs.

Role in the project

Sorbonne Université is the project coordinator. It also leads the  work packages related to optoelectronic embedded system design and system hardening,
final testing, characterization and verification as well as participate to the work package on industrial polymer ageing – IR ATR characterization.

Website: https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en 

Électricité de France (EDF) is the largest producer and provider of electricity in the world. The company remains one of the European utilities with a significant research and development activity and effort on innovation: around 2,000 people are presently employed at EDF R&D. The purpose of the EDF R&D Materials and Mechanics of Components department is to lead the investigations needed to meet security requirements, reliability and productivity of industrial facilities in the fields of materials and mechanics. Its activity extends to all means of power generation (nuclear, coal, combustion turbines, dams…), the management of nuclear waste (storage, transmutation) and accompanying the commercial offer of the EDF group.

Role in the project

EDF will lead Work Package 1, whose planned activities are:
• Providing pipes and polymers;
• Carrying out accelerated ageing closed to normal NPP operation;
• Characterizing ageing thanks to reference measurements done by infrared spectroscopy

Website: https://www.edf.fr/en/

Universitat Jaume I  is a public academic and research institution serving a community of approximately 15,000 students. It that was founded in 1991 and is specially focused in robotics research and education as well as computer science, engineering, chemistry, business studies and material sciences.

The members of the UJI team for El-Peacetolero project are researchers at the IRS Lab, which has a strong background in different topics of robotics, always applied to real scenarios (e.g. underwater, fire, radiation), including manipulation, perception and HRI.

 Role in the project

The role of UJI in the project is the design and implementation of activities related to the integration of the sensor in a robot, and demonstrating that it can be used at a distance via an operator that brings the robot to both, the interior and exterior of a pipe, maintaining safety of the personnel.

Website: https://www.uji.es/

Within the French renewable and atomic energy commission (CEA), the LIST institute is an RTO focusing its expertise on the integration of systems and technologies. Its mission is to foster innovation transfer between academics and the French and European industry ranging from SME to international companies. The LIST institute is committed to technological innovation in digital systems. Its R&D activities – driven by major economic, societal and industrial challenges – encompass four main themes: factory of the future, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence and digital health.

Role in the project

With its 30-year strong background in hardened electronics for radiative environment, CEA LIST will address during the project the hardening of El-Peacetolero key electronic components, which is essential for its exploitation in severe environments.

Website: http://www-list.cea.fr/en/

Forschungszentrum Jülich makes a vital contribution to solving major challenges facing society in the fields of information, energy, and bioeconomy. It focuses on the future of information technologies and information processing, complex processes in the human brain, the transformation of the energy system, and a sustainable bioeconomy.  With some 5,600 employees, Jülich – a member of the Helmholtz Association – is one of Europe’s large research centres. The work program within El-Peacetolero will be performed in the Institute for Energy and Climate Research – Nuclear Waste Management and Reactor Safety (IEK-6), making use of the knowledge acquired during the last 50 years on safety issues regarding nuclear waste management and reactor safety.

Role in the project

Forschungszentrum Jülich activities  are focused on cross-characterization by destructive analyses before and after the alteration experiments to understand the material degradation with respect to microscopic and chemical changes.

Website: https://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/EN/Home

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG) undertakes applied research of direct utility to private and public enterprise and of wide benefit to society. The Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing (Fraunhofer IZFP) was founded in 1972 under the lead of FhG with the mission “Research and Development for NDT for Nuclear Safety”, and dealt with more than 50 projects on that topic. Today, Fraunhofer IZFP focuses its activities on the development of “cognitive sensor systems” for the nondestructive monitoring of industrial processes and value chains. The Institute’s technical understanding of inspection and sensor physics is supplemented by technologies and concepts from AI research, which are used to develop sensor systems for the NDT of tomorrow.

Role in the project

Fraunhofer IZFP leads the work focused on the augmentation of measurement data and the development and application of machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms for the detection of degradation of aged industrial polymers. In addition, it will contribute to non-destructive materials characterization using THz spectroscopy.

Website: https://www.izfp.fraunhofer.de/en.html 

mirSense is committed to developing and making cutting-edge laser technologies available to everyone on a daily basis. From protecting people to protecting their environment, it builds tools that allow everyone to breathe cleaner air, to move safely and to live in good health. Quantum cascade lasers are an advanced technology, resulting from the conquest of space, precise at the atomic scale. Passionate about the immense possibilities offered by these lasers, mirSense builds sustainable, smarter and more accessible products every day. Today, mirSense offers efficient and precise solutions, powerful and robust, deployable widely and easily.

Role in the project

In El-Peacetolero project, mirSense will be in charge of the development of the laser head used in sensor in collaboration with Sorbonne Université. It will lead the work package in charge of the development of this building block and play an important role in the work package for the embedded system design. It will also be involved in the work package for component hardening testing.

Website: https://mirsense.com/

ARTTIC, A PNO international management services company, is the leading European group providing consultancy and management services to international technology-related partnerships.

Role in the project

ARTTIC will lead the dissemination and communications work package, provide the project office and support Sorbonne Université with project management.

Website: http://www.arttic.eu/pages/en/home.php

Ioffe Institute is one of Russia’s largest institutions for research in physics and technology with a wide variety of operating projects. The staff amounts to 2300 members, among them 1175 researchers. The Institute is affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences. Five Institute divisions perform research in the areas of Plasma Physics, Atomic Physics and Astrophysics (1), Solid State Physics (2), Physics of Dielectric and Semiconductors (3), Solid State Electronics (4) and Nanoheterostructure Physics (5).

Role in the project

The main role of Ioffe Institute within El-Peacetolero is the development, manufacturing and delivery of the mid-IR sensor heads based on LED-PD pairs coupled with the ATR crystal for the sensor together with recommendations for their operation modes enabling highest possible signal-to-noise ratio.

Website: http://www.ioffe.ru/index_en.html