Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
GRAPHENE ON SILICON FREE ELECTRON LASER (GOSFEL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,Switzerland,Norway
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2016-04-30
Duration (months): 43.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2295434.0
EU funding (EUR): 1739511.0
Participants: 4
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of this project is to demonstrate an entirely new type of compact laser source by exploiting the unique properties of graphene to realise a solid-state free electron laser. Free electron lasers (FELs) represent a radical alternative to con-ventional lasers as they do not have the restrictions of conventional lasers on op-erating wavelengths, and they are potentially the most flexible, high power and ef-ficient generators of tuneable coherent radiation from the ultra-violet to the infra-red. In a FEL radiation is emitted from an electron beam travelling in a vacuum and passing through an undulatory magnetic field, and the emission wavelength is only determined by the period of the magnetic field and electron beam energy. However, current free electron lasers are large and expensive facilities. The recent isolation of graphene, in which electrons travel ballistically and at extremely high saturation velocities, has provided an exciting potential route for creating a compact solid state free electron laser. In this project we will first develop the theory for the operation of such a device and will use this to design and fabricate devices containing a suspended graphene active region. Metallic gratings will be patterned on top of, or below, the graphene to provide the modulation needed to accelerate/decelerate the electrons, causing the emission of radiation in the 0.2 to 10 THz range.We will then integrate an electromagnetic feedback cavity to enhance stimulated emission and to produce coherent radiation. The demonstration of such a room temperature source would challenge established notions of laser operation and would be a significant technological development.

Keywords: graphene,laser,terahertz
Rotorcraft Electric Taxiing (RETAX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Switzerland
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2011-01, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2013-12-31
Duration (months): 26.0
Total project cost (EUR): 945378.0
EU funding (EUR): 472689.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of ‘RETAX’ is to explore intrinsically safe and efficient solutions for mid-size rotorcraft autonomous taxiing on ground, minimizing the overall weight of the system, based on an electrically-powered motorized wheel integrated with the landing gear. Subsequently to select the most promising solution and develop it into a technical demonstrator to be tested and verified. The former experience of Michelin in electric-drive solutions for motorized cars, busses and aircraft will be used and translated into a rotorcraft electric taxiing system. A high level of integration and performance will have to be reached in order to be able to achieve an optimal solution. A key success factor will be the control of the complete chain, from the power electronic to the wheel, through electrical motor and gearbox in order to reach the global optimization customized for this specific application. After a preliminary study to define the optimum feasible concept and architecture for the motorized wheel and power electronics, including the voltage level choice (28 Vdc or 270 Vdc), a detailed analysis and simulation of the intended solution will be performed. A real demonstrator of the electric-drive system will be designed, engineered and built to physically test and prove the intended performance, the fulfilment of all requirements and also to calibrate the simulation models. The protections for high-voltage human safety (270 Vdc) will be included in the demonstrator, if high voltage is used. An extrapolation study towards larger size rotorcraft will be performed. This feasibility demonstration of electrically driven rotorcraft ground taxiing in accordance with Clean Sky electrification objectives will be a significant step towards greener rotorcraft operations, bringing this technology closer to the market, and creating European competitive advantage.

Keywords: helicopter,rotorcraft,taxiing,electric motor,electric taxiing
Quantum Cascade Lasers Based TERAhertz Frequency COMB (TERACOMB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,France,Switzerland,Germany,France,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2012-06-01
End date: 2015-11-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2867584.0
EU funding (EUR): 2192598.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Despite significant research efforts during the past 10 years, the terahertz (THz) spectral range remains vastly underexploited, owing essentially to the insufficient signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) achievable with present technology. The project’s aim is to address this problem by building a new technological platform enabling the generation of high power, broad bandwidth, THz frequency combs (FCs) with a high frequency stability. The demonstration of FCs in the visible and near-IR spectral ranges has been among the main breakthroughs in the field of optics in the past decade. FCs are commonly generated by mode-locked lasers. In the frequency domain they consist of a broad spectrum of narrow lines, separated by a constant frequency interval, corresponding, in the time domain, to the repetition rate of the emitted pulse train. The time duration of the emitted pulses is roughly given by the inverse of the spectral bandwidth. Due to the lack of mode-locked lasers, FCs in the THz range are nowadays generated by inherently inefficient non-linear conversion techniques. This is the main cause for the low SNR of present THz systems. The THz FCs envisioned in this project will be based on THz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs), a novel, compact and powerful THz semiconductor laser source. THz FCs will be generated by mode-locked THz QCLs, and/or by using THz QCLs as semiconductor amplifiers. This will allow the production of FCs with average powers in excess of 10mW, with a spectral bandwidth > 1THz, and a corresponding pulse duration < 1ps. Such high power THz FCs will be combined with highly sensitive coherent detection techniques based on compact fs-fiber lasers that will be developed ad hoc in this project. The ultimate goal is the realization of an enabling THz technology, which may be adapted for a wide variety of applications in fields such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine.

Keywords: terahertz,semiconductor lasers,frequency combs,mode-locking,quantum cascade lasers,intersubband transitions,fiber lasers,semiconductor amplifiers,frequency metrology,frequency standards
Reliability assessment of key technologies for high temperature electrical machines (HT° MOTOR WINDINGS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: France,France,France
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2011-01, 2011)
Start date: 2012-03-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 15.0
Total project cost (EUR): 292511.2
EU funding (EUR): 219383.4
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The project objective is to evaluate the reliability of motor winding technologies able to work at high temperatures. To achieve this goal within the time define in the Clean Sky call sheet, it is necessary to rely on existing technologies, which offer opportunities for rapid implementations on conventional machines, while opening new opportunities towards higher temperatures with innovative technologies. Three sets of technologies will be studied: - The technologies based on enamelled wires associated to polymer impregnation varnishes. - Technologies based on wires wrapped with glass fibber associated to impregnations made with epoxy resins. - The insulation technologies based on ceramics, which offer potential prospects for very high temperatures. The three sets of technologies will be tested for increasing temperatures on representative test vehicles (twisted pairs, transformer coils and motorettes) involving measurement systems able to get the main parameters of the insulation system (DC and AC leakage currents, partial discharge inception voltage, breakdown voltage, …). The analysis of changes in recorded parameters during the test campaigns will estimate the maximum permissible temperature in the heart of the winding for each technology. These data, combined with constraints of implementation of each technology will define recommendations for the design of electrical machines able to operate at high temperatures for each selected technology. The part relating to the use of ceramic insulations opens the way to a major technological leap. With such materials, the maximum operating temperature of electrical machines will no longer be imposed by the winding insulation system but by other parts (magnetic or mechanical), consequently new design methods will have to be developed. It is therefore important to put this new approach against the best we might obtain from other technologies by proposing solutions applicable in the short term.

Keywords: electrical machines,high temperature,magnet wire,isulator
Sustainable recycling of aircrafts composites (SUSRAC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Italy,Spain
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2011-01, 2011)
Start date: 2011-12-01
End date: 2013-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 139626.0
EU funding (EUR): 104717.5
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

The project aims at developing a sustainable, cost effective, purely physical approach to the recycling of thermosetting and thermoplastic carbon fibres reinforced composites typically obtained from the dismantling of End-of-Life Aircrafts. A preliminary investigation will be carried out to assess which are the suitable analytical techniques, aimed to the characterization of the material, both in terms of matrix and filler. This procedure, along with the information provided by the material’s data sheets, will also help to devise the best recycling and reutilization options. Potential application of the recycled compounds are automotive, interior and outdoor design, as well as non-structural components in aircraft industry. Improvement of mechanical, thermal, and aging resistance properties of the recycled compounds will be obtained through the use of proper compatibilizing agents. As far as the thermoplastic components is concerned, they will be blended with suitable commodity thermoplastics and then characterized in terms of morphology and tensile, impact and dynamic-mechanical properties. The activity on thermosets will develop novel methods to recycle stabilized fiber-reinforced epoxy-based composites. The working plan is divided in different tasks: 1 – Dimensional reduction of the composite, with investigation of the proper grinding system, in order to get particles not greater than 500 microns. 2 – Mixing the so obtained granules with fluidified polymer matrices, according to a proprietary process, aiming at producing a fluid composite containing at least 50% by weight of thermoplastic and/or thermoset residue. 3 – Processing the obtained compounds into solid plates with different thickness that find application in outdoor furnishing (tiles, flooring, etc.), or polymer granules to be processed with conventional injection molding equipment to get tailor shaped manufacts. The latter should have properties comparable to those of virgin materials, but with lower cost.

Keywords: thermoplastic compounds,cold process,emulsification,characterization
PRECISSION OUTER WING ASSEMBLY DEVICES (PROUD)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Spain
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2011-01, 2011)
Start date: 2011-09-04
End date: 2016-02-03
Duration (months): 53.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3000000.0
EU funding (EUR): 2250000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

The proposal approach innovative solutions for the design and manufacturing of the tooling needed for the assembly of two different kinds of configuration for the outer wings within a Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft. The PROUD proposal, understand that the main requirement for this wing structural part is based on their high dimensional stability and tight geometrical tolerances to compliance with surface quality for a natural laminar flow condition, and therefore stability control and manufacturing precision over the integration tools to be designed and manufactured shall be strict. The proposal combines a skilled and qualified aeronautical tooling designers and manufacturers, within technology providers, for the specific solutions in manufacturing and metrology for stress or deformation measurements. With the chance of high presition automatized positioning of parts for the inner structure to be able to introduce robot positioning in the aeronautic sector and reduce the humen error added to positioning tolerances.

Keywords: sertec,precission,metrology,assemby
Networked energy-aware visual analysis (GREENEYES)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Portugal,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2012-10-01
End date: 2015-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1334031.0
EU funding (EUR): 993770.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

The potential of the Internet of Things is leading to a paradigm shift with an ambitious long-term vision, in which battery-operated sensing nodes are empowered with sight and are capable of complex visual analysis tasks. Unfortunately, this is out of reach with the current technology. GreenEyes will develop a comprehensive set of new methodologies, algorithms and protocols, to empower wireless sensor networks with vision capabilities comparable to those achievable by power-eager smart camera systems. The key tenet is that most visual analysis tasks can be carried out based on a succinct representation of the image, which entails both global and local features, while it disregards the underlying pixel-level representation. Still, under severe energy constraints it is imperative to optimize the computation, the coding and the transmission of the features. On the computation and coding side, GreenEyes will tackle the problem by reversing the conventional compress-then-analyze paradigm. That is, image features are collected by sensing nodes, processed, and delivered to final destination(s) in order to enable higher level visual analysis tasks by means of either centralized or distributed detectors and classifiers, somewhat mimicking the processing of visual stimuli in the early visual system. The transmission of visual features is subject to tight application-dependent requirements (bandwidth/delay guarantees), and may be affected by network conditions. Therefore, on the communication side, GreenEyes will pursue the design of networking tools for wireless multimedia sensor networks for energy efficient distributed control, information delivery and in-network processing optimized for the visual analysis task.

Keywords: multimedia signal processing,networking,visual communication,visual features,wireless multimedia sensor networks
Non-Equilibrium Social Science in ICT and Economics (NESS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and Emerging Technologies
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Switzerland,United Kingdom,Italy,Portugal,Poland,China,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2011-C, 2011)
Start date: 2011-11-01
End date: 2014-12-31
Duration (months): 38.0
Total project cost (EUR): 959560.0
EU funding (EUR): 798220.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Traditional economics uses models that assume limited interaction between agents, simplistic behavioural assumptions and equilibrium analysis. Yet economies and social systems are often strongly correlated, heterogeneous and far from equilibrium hence traditional approaches do not provide the tools to understand, model or design systems in rapid change. The current financial and world order constitute such systems and heavily rely on ICT (such as trading platforms, social media and novel e-business models) that is transforming the way modern economies and societies function. For many years researchers from diverse disciplines and communities, such as Complex Systems, non-orthodox Economics and Agent-Based Modelling have proposed alternative formalised models that capture aspects of non-equilibrium social systems yet these endeavours have been fragmented and peripheral. With this co-ordination action we will bring together leading researchers within Non-Equilibrium Social Science (NESS) to build a community, address current pressing issues and engage with policy makers, business and other stakeholders. We aim to create a new ICT and NESS-aware paradigm for economics and foster its application in areas of policy and business for social and economic progress.

Keywords: non-equilibrium systems,systems design,economics,social science,social ict,self-organising systems,agent-based simulation,econophysics,complex systems science
Principles of dialect evolution in killer whales (DIALECT EVOLUTION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Incoming Fellowships
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF, 2011)
Start date: 2013-04-01
End date: 2015-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 278807.4
EU funding (EUR): 278807.4
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Dialects occur in a range of species, from human language to bird song. This project will focus on dialect evolution in killer whales. Each pod of killer whales shares a unique repertoire of discrete calls – a vocal dialect, which passes from mother to offspring through social learning. It is commonly accepted that killer whale dialects change gradually with time by accumulation of stochastic copying errors, but some observations suggest that call evolution is much more complex phenomenon. The goal of the proposed research is to reveal the principles of killer whale dialect evolution. The distribution of various call features in dialects on intra- and inter-population level will be described using the linguistic methodology developed for the description of human languages. This distribution will be analysed using the computational methods from the evolutionary biology. The phylogeny of dialects will be constructed by the amount of shared call features using Bayesian methods. The phylogenetic tree obtained by the dialect comparison will be calibrated with genetic analysis using complete mitochondrial genome sequences. It will allow to estimate the speed of dialect evolution and test for its homogeneity. The project will lead to better understanding of the general principles of cultural evolution and yield a model of killer whale dialect evolution that will allow to determine the population structure of killer whales by vocal dialects, which will significantly help conservation and management of killer whale populations. Killer whales are listed with other Cetacea in Annex IV of the Habitats Directive as a species of community interest in need of strict protection. In recent decades Northeast Atlantic killer whales have been subject to a number of anthropogenic threats. Identifying killer whale populations is a key goal for conservation and management of the species, because any impact must be primarily accessed on the population rather than on species level.

Keywords: animal ethology,behavioural biology,evolutionary biology
Development and Implementation of Conductive coating for Magnesium sheets in A/C (COMAG)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Joint Technology Initiatives (Annex IV-SP1)
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Sky
Action type: Article 171 of the Treaty
Partnership: CLEAN-SKY (Art-185)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (SP1-JTI-CS-2011-02, 2011)
Start date: 2012-02-01
End date: 2014-07-31
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 160000.0
EU funding (EUR): 119720.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Generally, most magnesium alloys have higher bare corrosion rate than aluminium. Therefore, the role of surface protection is very important in design of magnesium aircraft components. FP6 project AEROMAG showed that modern surface treatment technologies, such as PGA ALGAN 2M, MAGOXIDE, MAGPASS and Gardobond X4729 offer high protection level for magnesium components. The results are very close to those of coatings on aluminium. It is well-known that magnesium has galvanic corrosion with any other metal. Therefore it's impossible to use metallic layers on magnesium as conductive coatings. The option is to build thin chemical conversion layers which have low electrical resistance. For many years, such conductive coatings were built on base of Cr VI compounds. The examples of such treatments are Dow-19 and NH35. Due to environmental restrictions, Cr VI shall be replaced. Chemical conversion coatings on the base of Cr III are marked as potential replacement of Cr VI processes on aluminium. However, performance of Cr III processes on magnesium is very low. Modern alternative to Cr VI treatments are silanes. Silane protective coatings are based on ability of hydrolysed silanes to build bonds with metallic substrate. Silane treatments are environmentally friendly and cost effective due to low concentration of active compound (usually 1-5%), short process sequence, low energy and water consumption and they do not have galvanic corrosion with magnesium. They can be applied by immersion, spraying or locally (touch up). The important advantage of silane coating technology is precise control for coating thickness. Therefore, in order to approach high corrosion resistance with electrical conductivity, the development will be focused on silane structure rather than on coating thickness. In the frame of the development, structure of proprietary silane will be modified to increase number of hydrolysed groups and to introduce additional, chemical stable functional groups.

Keywords: magnesium,conductive coating,aeronautics,silane,inhibitor,corrosion resistance,electrical conductivity