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RADiation and reliability challenges for electronics used in Space, Avionics, on the Ground and at Accelerators (RADSAGA)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2021,

Reliability and radiation damage issues have a long and important history in the domain of satellites and space missions. Qualification standards were established and expertise was built up in space agencies (ESA), supporting institutes and organizations (CNES, DLR, etc.) as well as universities and specialized companies. During recent years, radiation concerns are gaining attention also in aviati ...
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Laser Lightning Rod (LLR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Controlling lightning is a long time dream of mankind. The goal of the present project is to investigate and develop a new type of lightning protection based on the use of upward lightning discharges initiated through a high repetition rate multi terawatt laser. The feasibility of the novel technique and the project’s prospect of success are based on recent research providing new insights into the ...
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Empowered decision-making in simulation-based engineering: Advanced Model Reduction for real-time, inverse and optimization in industrial problems (AdMoRe)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

“AdMoRe: Empowered decision-making in simulation-based engineering: Advanced Model Reduction for real-time, inverse and optimization in industrial problems” aims at providing in-depth training of Early Stage Researches (ESRs) in the development and application of state-of-the-art computational models and numerical methods to solve cutting-edge engineering problems. The main driving factors of all ...
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Efficient Composite parts manufacturing (EFFICOMP)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The main objectives are to propose R&D activity to reduce cost and increase ramp up production of composite parts for structural application on aerospace products. These objectives are fully in line with objectives of the call MG1.8. European partners consortium is composed with end user (AIRBUS Group) and research laboratories (DLR, Stuttgart University, Delft University) and a dissemination expe ...
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Ecological and Multifunctional Composites for Application in Aircraft Interior and Secondary Structures (ECO-COMPASS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

Composites are important materials used in aircrafts due to their excellent mechanical properties combined with relatively low weight enabling the reduction of fuel consumption. Expensive carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) are used in fuselage and wing structures and increasingly replace classic metals. Glass fibre reinforced plastics (GFRP) are mainly used for the interior panels. All these ...
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High-Speed Experimental Fly Vehicles - International (HEXAFLY-INT)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The HEXAFLY-INT project aims to flight test an experimental vehicle above Mach 7 to verify its potential for a high aerodynamic efficiency during a free-flight while guaranteeing a large internal volume. The feasibility for a 3m long vehicle was demonstrated during the European L0 precursor project HEXAFLY. Its realization will now be enabled on an international scale underlining the need for glob ...
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Integrated design and novel tooling and process optimisation of microwave processing of composites (SIMUTOOL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

SIMUTOOL will develop a simulation platform for the manufacturing of composites through microwave MW heating. The simulation will include the electromagnetic field coupled with heat transfer mechanisms that take place during the production process. It will also include the process control loop which will enable the optimum design of the manufacturing process.One of the major outputs of the simulat ...
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Multi-contact Collaborative Humanoids in Aircraft Manufacturing (COMANOID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

COMANOID investigates the deployment of robotic solutions in well-identified Airbus airliner assembly operations that are laborious or tedious for human workers and for which access is impossible for wheeled or rail-ported robotic platforms. As a solution to these constraints a humanoid robot is proposed to achieve the described tasks in real-use cases provided by Airbus Group. At a first glance, ...
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Quality assurance concepts for adhesive bonding of aircraft composite structures by advanced NDT (ComBoNDT)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,

The integration of innovative lightweight materials like CFRP into multi-material design (MMD) environments in aeronautic applications brings along a paradigm shift in initial design, manufacturing and in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO). Essential cost reductions over the whole aircraft lifecycle demand innovative processes meeting the specific requirements of MMD in general and specificall ...
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THINGS2DO (THINGS2D0)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jan 1, 2018,

Develop the FDSOI ecosystem in Europe, beyond the PLACES2BE Pilot Line, in order to increase the impact of this European technology. At the time of set up of the first KET pilot line the proof of FDSOI was mainly technological. In between then and now, the first realization of a complex silicon chip in FDSOI has shown to the worldwide microelectronics community the capabilities of this technology. ...
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Avionics Systems Hosted on a distributed modular electronics Large scale dEmonstrator for multiple tYpe of aircraft (ASHLEY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

In search for a more competitive, multiple types of aircrafts, IMA based, avionics platform solution, the European aerospace industry has recently initiated the IMA2G paradigm thanks to the EC funded SCARLETT project.This latter successfully validated a first underlying set of IMA2G concepts (Separate Core Processing resources from I/O resources, introduce resource segments typology of electronics ...
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Global ATM security management (GAMMA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The GAMMA project stems from the recognition that while the SESAR initiative is effectively addressing some security issues in the new global ATM scenarios, there is a need to extend this scope to ensure a comprehensive assessment of the full set of security threats and vulnerabilities affecting ATM, considered as a system of systems and covering operational as well as technological aspects. In ad ...
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SUstainable Network for Japan-Europe aerospace research and Technology cooperation II (SUNJET II)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

SUNJET II proposal responds to the H2020-MG-2014 Topic 1.8 International Cooperation in Aeronautics of the work programme. Its main objectives are:• Recommendations and guidance for future EU-Japan cooperation in the field of aviationBuilding on the SUNJET project, SUNJET II will produce consolidated roadmaps in the fields of Aircraft, Systems and Equipment, with the support of R&T institutions, A ...
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Energy Efficient Manufacturing Process of Engineering Materials (EFFIPRO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

The aim of the project to develop and implement at pilot plant scale a novel field assisted sintering technology. The secuential application of two different technologies will be used: Electrical Discharge Compaction (EDC) and Electrical Resistance Sintering (ERS). The technology will be studied at fundamental level and a pilot plant scale equipment will be designed and built.Higher performances m ...
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Initiative Towards sustAinable Kerosene for Aviation (ITAKA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

ITAKA project is expected to support the development of aviation biofuels in an economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable manner, improving the readiness of existing technology and infrastructures. This will be achieved through the first of its kind collaborative project in the EU, that will develop a full value-chain in Europe to produce sustainable drop-in Hydroprocessed Esters and ...
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More Affordable Aircraft structure through eXtended, Integrated, and Mature nUmerical Sizing (MAAXIMUS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Even though composite materials are more and more used in modern airframes, many significant improvements are still achievable. Firstly, the substitution of the assembly of many small composite parts by a single one-shot large part provides additional weight reduction. Secondly, the final assembly line process must be adapted to composite properties (lack of ductility, stiffness). Thirdly, if the ...
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Holistic Human Factors and System Design of Adaptive Cooperative Human-Machine Systems (HOLIDES)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

HoliDes addresses development and qualification of Adaptive Cooperative Human-Machine Sys-tems (AdCoS) where many humans and many machines act together, cooperatively, in a highly adaptive way. They adapt to each other and to the context to guarantee fluent and cooperative task achievement. Such systems with higher levels of automation are urgently needed to enhance safety and to increase the conf ...
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Thermal Overall Integrated Conception of Aircraft (TOICA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Thermal behaviour of aircraft has recently become a crucial subject due to many factors: increasing number of complex systems required by modern, more electric, commercial aircraft, the introduction of hotter engines with higher by-pass ratios, the increased use of composite material in aircraft structures, or the confinement of highly dissipative equipment and systems in smaller areas to earn spa ...
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Uncertainty Management for Robust Industrial Design in Aeronautics (UMRIDA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Virtual prototyping (VP) is a key technology for environmental friendly and cost effective design in the aircraft industry. However, the underlying analysis and simulation tools (for loads, stresses, emissions, noise), are currently applied with a unique set of input data and model variables, although realistic operating conditions are a superposition of numerous uncertainties under which the indu ...
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CreAting NonconventionAl Laminates (CANAL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The purpose of the CANAL project is to develop new Non-Conventional Laminate (NCL) configurations using Dry Fibre Placement (DFP) and the establishment of engineering tools to ensure implementation of the technology in the aerospace industry and other industries, such as automotive that can benefit from rapid and cost effective production of complex shaped and high-performance composite parts. Whe ...
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LOw COst Manufacturing and Assembly of Composite and Hybrid Structures (LOCOMACHS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

The continued use of composite materials in the aerospace industry has been addressed in several past research projects which have focused on new design solutions and composite manufacturing processes. However an area which has been given much less attention up until now is how to achieve a time and cost effective lean assembly production system. The current airframe assembly process of composite ...
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Coordinating research and innovation of jet and other sustainable aviation fuel (CORE-JetFuel)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...tional initiatives and with the key stakeholders in the field. The consortium combines the competencies of the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR), SENASA, Bauhaus Luftfahrt (BHL), WIP , IFP, EADS Innovation Works and numerous external experts from science, industry and politics.The expected benefits are enhanced knowledge of decision makers, support for maintaining coherent research policies an ...
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Immersive Semantics-based Virtual Environments for the Design and Validation of Human-centred Aircraft Cockpits (i-VISION)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

New tools are needed for the design and evaluation of aircraft cockpits with a high level of flexibility and low-cost. Virtual prototyping has been widely used. A great challenge today is though to provide methods and tools that seamlessly integrate low-level 3D geometries with domain-specific knowledge and intelligence.i-VISION will combine methods and technologies from 3 distinct areas of resear ...
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Physical processing of molten light alloys under the influence of external fields (EXOMET)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

The ExoMet proposal revolves around innovative liquid metal engineering and the application of external physical fields, in order to significantly influence the microstructures and properties of light alloys, such as aluminium and magnesium. Three types of external fields will be explored, namely: electromagnetic, ultrasonic and intensive mechanical shearing.To meet the future EU challenges of lig ...
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Critical System Engineering Acceleration (CRYSTAL)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

CRYSTAL aims at fostering Europe’s leading edge position in embedded systems engineering in particular regarding quality and cost effectiveness of safety-critical embedded systems and architecture platforms.Its overall goal is to enable sustainable paths to speed up the maturation, integration, and cross-sectoral reusability of technological and methodological bricks of the factories for safety-cr ...
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Advanced Cockpit for Reduction Of StreSs and workload (ACROSS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Outstanding safety level of air transport is partly due to the two pilots standard. However situations where difficult flight conditions, system failures or cockpit crew incapacitation lead to peak workload conditions.The amount of information and actions to process may then exceed the crew capacity. Systems alleviating crew workload would improve safety.ACROSS Advanced Cockpit for Reduction of St ...
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GReener Aeronautics International Networking-2 (GRAIN 2)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

As mentioned in the Executive Summary of the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda, Aviation has an important role to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as noise and local air quality issues. The continuous increase of air passenger transport generates an increasing use of hydrocarbon fuel with excessive emission of CO2 and NOX (greenhouse gases, pollutants and noise). It is well k ...
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Guaranteed Component Assembly with Round Trip Analysis for Energy Efficient High-integrity Multi-core Systems (CONCERTO)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Emerging embedded systems platforms harnessing new heterogeneous, multicore architectures to enable the next generation of powerful mission-critical applications are demanding across-the-board advances in all areas of design and development to fulfil their promise. The integration of component-based design with model-driven development creates a potent combination especially capable of mastering t ...
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Energy Efficient Converters using GaN Power Devices (E2COGAN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The E2COGaN project will target the demonstration of GaN-on-Si as a disruptive power device technology platform through the whole value chain up to demonstrators with high industrial, societal and environmental relevance. Its innovative character will be proven through a well-balanced and application specific trade-off between the “corner” benefits given by higher efficiency, higher switching freq ...
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Protection of Critical Infrastructures against High Power Microwave Threats (HIPOW)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

"The HIPOW Project aims to develop a holistic regime for protection of critical infrastructures against threats from electromagnetic radiation. The holistic regime will include guidance regarding hardening measures and robust architectures, a suggested risk management process applicable on organizational level, input to standards and guidelines applicable for critical infrastructures on national a ...
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AIRBorne information for Emergency situation Awareness and Monitoring (AIRBEAM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

The AIRBEAM project proposes a situation awareness toolbox for the management of crisis over wide area taking benefit of an optimised set of aerial (unmanned) platforms, including satellites.The number of unmanned air- and space-borne platform available and their associated sensors present a new set of challenges to end users involved in the effective management of emergencies and actions of law e ...
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Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures (SARISTU)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The project proposal concerns the challenges posed by the physical integration of smart intelligentstructural concepts. It addresses aircraft weight and operational cost reductions as well as animprovement in the flight profile specific aerodynamic performance.This concerns material concepts enabling a conformal, controlled distortion of aerodynamicallyimportant surfaces, material concepts enablin ...
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Sustainable Plan for Integrated Development through the European Rail network – Projecting Logistics & mobility for Urban Spatial design evolution (SPIDER PLUS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

"SPIDER PLUS objective is to provide a new 2050 mobility VISION through a Strategic Design & Plan, and a Road Map delivering Sustainable Solutions by then. In such Plan the electrified Rail has a central role both for passengers and freight. The productivity of the available resources supported by ICT and other technologies, is maximized by the combination of infrastructural nodes with spatial and ...
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HIgh speed Key technologies for future Air transport - Research & Innovation cooperation scheme (HIKARI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

...gies between the most active consortia on the subject.HIKARI will therefore the bases to a fruitful European-Japan partnership in HST, gathering the most renowned partners. It includes industies (EADS subsidiaries MBDA and Astrium, EADS Innovation Works department, and IHI Aerospace),research centers (ESTEC, DLR, CIRA, ONERA, NLR, CNRS and JAXA), and Universities (The University of Tokyo and EASN) ...
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Cost Effective Reinforcement of Fastener Areas in Composites (CERFAC)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

"CERFAC’s major challenge is the design and manufacturing of strong and cost-efficient joints for high performance CFRP aero-structures.In particular, transfer of distributed loading along rivets lines in the assembly of flat or curved thin-walled stiffened panels, and introduction of concentrated loads for connecting lugs with thicker laminates are special & frequent problems. Hence, CERFAC focus ...
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Parallel Cable Robotics for Improving Maintenance and Logistics of Large-Scale Products (CableBOT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

...n logistics, transport, and warehousing.The exploitation and commercialization of CableBOT are driven by VICINAY CEMVISA, the application of industrial scenarios, two end-users of different sectors - EADS and ACCIONA - will automate their currently manual post-production. TECNALIA provides the technology for simulation in terms of productivity, cost, safety and robustness, whereas the design of th ...
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NOVEL AERONAUTICAL MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITE STRUCTURES WITH BULK ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY AND SELF-SENSING CAPABILITIES (ELECTRICAL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"Aircraft structures appear to be strategic components to be manufactured in composite materials for reducing weight, although new questions regarding electrical conductivity have arisen such as static discharge, electrical bonding and grounding, interference shielding and current return through the structure.These functions can be met by the use of technologies based on nanocomposites, which inde ...
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Extended Non-Destructive Testing of Composite Bonds (ENCOMB)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

"Even though composite materials are already used in the manufacturing of structural components in aeronautics industry a consequent light-weight design of CFRP primary structures is limited due to a lack of adequate joining technologies. In general, adhesive bonding is the optimum technique for joining CFRP light-weight structures, but difficulties in assessing the bond quality by non-destructive ...
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Co-modal Airport (ModAir)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

The ModAir project aims at designing and setting up a mode-overlapping forum, where representatives from the air, rail and urban transport as well as any other relevant actor will contribute to the development and improvement of co-modality and intermodality for passengers in European airports.The interconnectivity at European airports is often still limited to urban transport, with in particular ...
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Multiscale reinforcement of semi-crystalline thermoplastic sheets and honeycombs (M-RECT)

Start date: Apr 15, 2010, End date: Apr 14, 2014,

The M-RECT project aims to create multiscale-reinforced semi-crystalline thermoplastics (PEEK and PPS), which will outperform all reinforced polymers in terms of strength, stiffness, creep and mainly damping by upscaling and further developing state of the art production methods, within cost-efficient manufacturing routes. The envisaged multiscale reinforcement will comprise of dispersed straighte ...
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