Laboratories and federations
INSA Centre-Val de Loire co-supervises six research laboratories and federations, thus promoting synergy between scientific disciplines. This collaboration enriches research projects and strengthens the links between higher education and the industrial world.
6 Research
laboratories
2 federations
of research laboratories
PRISME, Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory in Systems Engineering, Mechanics and Energy (EA 4229) is a research laboratory of INSA Centre Val de Loire and the University of Orléans.
INSA Centre Val de Loire has 14 research professors and around thirty non-permanent staff working at the PRISME laboratory, spread across its 2 departments.
- “FECP - Fluid, Energy, Combustion & Propulsion”, whose scientific topics focus on improving performance, reducing nuisances and reducing risks within the field of Combustion & Explosion (CE)
- “IRAUS - Images, Robotics, Automatics and Signals”, whose scientific topics include healthcare systems, personalised medicine, home care, future industries and agriculture, and energy management: Automation (Autom), Image Vision (IV), Robotics (Robot).
The possible applications are many and varied, depending on the areas listed above.
Examples include:
- for explosion risk assessment: the physico-chemistry of explosive substances, initiating explosions, the propagation of blast waves after explosions, and explosive processes.
- For fire safety: the interaction between flow and porous media, and the behaviour of heterogeneous materials in fire.
Robotics, in many of its aspects: design, perception, And control and command. - Finally, in image processing, for example in agriculture, and in automation: control, identification, state estimation and operational safety (reliability, fault diagnosis and maintenance) tools.
The Laboratory of Fundamental Computer Science of Orléans (LIFO, EA 4022) is a research laboratory of INSA Centre Val de Loire and the University of Orléans.
INSA Centre Val de Loire has 11 permanent researchers and around ten non-permanent staff working in the “Systems and Data Security - SDS” team.
The scientific topics covered include:
- Data Security: secure and confidential computing / graph applications / anonymisation/ data minimisation
- System Security: access control / Cloud security / IoT and embedded security
- Modelling and Formalisation Tools: cryptography/epistemic logic/graphs and automated systems
- Ethics (health and computer science)
There are many applications in all socio-economic fields that can be the subject of research projects funded by companies, the Centre-Val de Loire region, the ANR, and others: Health and medical data(APR Ethnos), Cosmetics(APR Adopter), Industry 4.0(APR IOT-CIA), Agriculture (FarmBot + projects with the PRISME laboratory), Electronic payment(Orange), Medical imaging(PHC Nusantara), Open data and social media(ANR SendUp), Contact tracing(GT StopCovid), etc.
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The Laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Computer Science of Tours (LIFAT, EA 6300) is a research laboratory of INSA Centre Val de Loire and the University of Tours.
INSA CVL has 5 permanent researchers at the LIFAT, working in the “Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - RFAI” team and the “Operational Research, Scheduling and Transport - ROOT” team.
The LIFAT’s scientific concerns are the design and development of models/methods/algorithms with the aim of extracting information and knowledge from data.
The activities of the LIFAT are focused on two main areas of application:
- Health and disability, with many partnerships with the University Hospital of Tours and INSERM teams, on image analysis for diagnosis assistance, on technical aids for the physically disabled, autism, flow optimization, visual data mining of medical data
- Big Data, with issues around infrastructure for storing and accessing data, GRID/CLOUD computing, extraction, analysis and structuring of data, operation, visualization and HMIs.
In 2018, INSA Centre Val de Loire, the University of Orléans and the University of Tours brought together their research teams in the field of materials mechanics, structural mechanics and civil engineering mechanics in a single laboratory: the LaMé laboratory.
INSA Centre Val de Loire has 19 permanent researchers and around fifteen non-permanent staff working at the LaMé laboratory:
- In the “DivS - Dynamics interactions vibrations & Structures” team, whose scientific topics include:
- Structural design and vibro-acoustics
- Identifying structures and recalibrating models
- Robust design of non-linear dynamics with uncertainties
- Behaviour of structures and interactions in fast dynamics
- Dynamic behaviour of materials
- In the “MMP - Materials Mechanics and Processes” team, whose scientific topics include:
- Multi-physics coupling
- Process/property relationships
- Multi-scale approaches
There are many possible applications in a wide range of industrial sectors, and these can be the subject of research projects funded by companies, the Centre-Val de Loire region, the French government, Europe, and others: Automotive (LabCom with the company Caillau, project with Hutchinson), Armaments and Defence (projects with NEXTER, MBDA), Composite materials (projects with COGIT), Theses and corresponding research laboratory with the CEA (LRC CosMa), etc.
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The GREMAN UMR 7347 is a multi-disciplinary laboratory specialising in materials, microelectronics, acoustics and nanotechnologies, created through the collaboration of three supervisory bodies: University of Tours, CNRS and INSA Centre Val de Loire.
INSA Centre Val de Loire has 13 permanent researchers and around ten non-permanent staff working at the GREMAN laboratory:
- DISCUS - Ultrasonic devices and characterization
- Functional characterisation of piezoelectric materials
- Ultrasonic transducers and sensors
- Ultrasonic characterisation of complex media
- ECOSYM – Energy, COmponents, SYstems, Microelectronic
- Synthesis and applications of porous semi-conductors
- Wide bandgap materials and devices
- MEMS/NEMS, from design to characterisation
- Systems and Energy
There are many applications, including: generating, storing and converting electrical energy; mobile electronics and energy harvesting; and measurement, control and diagnostics for industry and medicine.
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The CIties, TERritories, Environment and Societies Laboratory, joint research unit 7324, is jointly supervised by the CNRS, INSA Centre Val de Loire and the University of Tours.
INSA Centre Val de Loire has 6 permanent researchers and around ten non-permanent staff working in the “Territorial and Environmental Dynamics and Actions - DATE” team.
The CITERES team’s research areas include:
- Environmental dynamics, issues and landscapes
- Territorial risks, vulnerability and resilience
- Deliberate territorial actio
One of the challenges for researchers from the DATE team is to overcome the traditional divide between treating the environment and people separately, and to analyse the relationship between space, society and nature at different scales, from local to much larger, such as that of a river.
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INSA CVL is a member of two federations of research laboratories:
- The ICVL Federation (FED 4279) is made up of the 2 computer science laboratories in the Centre-Val de Loire region, the LIFAT and the LIFO. It brings together more than 160 members, all researchers in computer science and experts in fields related to the acquisition and processing of information, covering both fundamental and applied aspects, in collaboration with industrial partners and major research centres.
- The FITe Federation, consisting of the PRISME, GREMI and ICARE laboratories, has a structuring role in the field of fluid dynamics, processes and transfers with a view to research on energy transition. The aim of FITe is to encourage the emergence of joint projects between laboratories and to coordinate responses to national and European calls for tenders.