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HLSS: An Agent-Based Adaptive Layered Perception Framework for Hyperspectral Industrial Environments

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Justifying the Dependability and Security of Business-Critical Blockchain-based Applications

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

An Industrial Prototype of Trusted Energy Performance Contracts Using Blockchain Technologies

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

BlockChaiNergy

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Energy conservation measurements in buildings are more and more popular as they benefit from an intelligent contractual framework called Energy Performance Contracts (EPC), where energy savings are measured as the difference between a predictive baseline model and the actual consumption. While modern predictive models make use of large amounts of data from external sources and increasingly complex algorithms, these two aspects make their use difficult in practice because they need mutual understanding and transparency, requiring the involvement of a third-party for auditing.

In this sense, within the scope of the Blockchainery project, we designed and developed a prototype that overcomes these issues by storing the predictive models and the data in an immutable blockchained data structure using the Ethereum framework.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first working prototype using the blockchain technology applied to EPCs.

For more information, see the published article using this link.

Digital Reactor

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A digital twin of the nuclear reactor covering the design, operation and deconstruction phases in the form of a common platform for:

improve the performance of the nuclear industry via a training simulator for operators,
build new digital export offers through simulation services.

In this project, we work on (1) securing the data and the codes of the digital reactor platform, and (2) transparency of invoicing, using blockchains.

For more information, see the external project website using this link.

ESF

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Eclipse Safety Framework (ESF) project provides a set of tools that enable both modelling and analysis of safety concerns in the context of modelling standards such as SysML and MARTE.

ESF allows a first-class interactivity between design and safety assessment activities. A dysfunctional model is built from the system model denoted using SysML. It is used to specify possible failure-modes, mitigation barriers, and propagation behaviour at components level. This is the manual local analysis. From the specification of feared events (expressed in safety requirements), an automatic global analysis can then produce propagation paths and corresponding fault trees. The dysfunctional model can be improved in an iterative way, until the safety requirements are fully satisfied. Finally, reports can be exported in different formats (e.g., HTML and PDF) to document the analyses hypothesis and results.

For more information, see the external project website using this link.

I3P Blockchain

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The nuclear plant of the future must be able to take advantage of the gains made by new digital technologies. However, these gains should not come at the expense of the safety, efficiency and operability of the industrial tool. IT security is an essential component for protecting critical digital systems against malicious acts, and thus helping to keep the industrial tool safe, available and efficient.

Blockchain and smart contract based solutions can facilitate secure exchanges within such critical applications. To do this, it is proposed to provide a simulation model to assist in the analysis, development and implementation of safe protocols and smart contracts.

The objective of this project is to develop an agent-based model to analyze by simulation the operational safety from the angle of the availability of the consensus protocol of the Hyperledger blockchain using MAX. To this end, various hypotheses will be tested in order to build a solid design for applications that use Hyperledger Fabric.

Papyrus-RT

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Papyrus-RT provides an industrial-grade, complete and full-fledged environment for the development of software and systems that has to present at least one of the following features: reactive, distributed, real-time, or embedded. It covers several concerns related to designing such systems, i.e., modeling, code generation, runtime support, advanced debugging facilities, and schedulability and performance analysis.

Papyrus-RT provides an open framework to facilitate the implementation and adoption of new and existing approaches and methods to build real-time solutions.

For more information, see the external project website using this link.

Romeo-2

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

French project founded by Bpifrance as a structural competitiveness structure project (PSPC).

Romeo is a humanoid robot from Aldebaran Robotics which is intended to be a genuine personal assistant and companion.

This research platform is now being used to validate the possible service uses for a larger robot than Nao and to test new technologies for possible integration in future Aldebaran products. These innovations stem from Aldebaran Robotics' own research as well as research conducted by partners in the academic and industrial sectors within the scope of joint projects such as the PSPC project of the Romeo 2 Future investment programme supported by Bpifrance.

The innovations tested on Romeo include human-robot interaction, moving eyes and the vestibular system, force control. etc.

Four European laboratories have already acquired the first Romeo robot prototypes.

For more information, see the external project website using this link.