Hereafter a list of the research projects/contracts I am involved in or that I am managing:

• Robotics for Mining Machines of the Roadheader Type to Obtain Automatic Selective Cutting - Phase 1 (1988-1990)
  EC funded project: DG XII - Raw Materials


• Robotization of Roadheaders for Automatic Selective Cutting - Phase 2 (1991-1994)
  EC funded project: DG XII - Raw Materials


• Real-time inspection of pre-weathered zinc based on computer vision (1994-1995) (*)
  Research contract with UNION MINIÈRE


• Temperature measurements on die forging using Infrared Thermography (1994-1997) (*)
  Research contract with FORTECH


• Glass bottle forming control: on-line measurement of gob position and shape using computer vision (1995-1997) (*)
  Research contract with VOA and Saint-Gobain Emballage


• Overheat, fire, smoke and freight movement detection algorithms based on CCD sensor for aircraft cargo surveillance (1997-2000) (*)
  Research contract with LATÉCOÈRE


• New tools and advanced methods to allow monitoring of metallic parts shape variations induced by thermal treatments (1998-2000)
  EC funded project: 4th FWP - BRITE/EURAM 3


• IntPlasTIC (2003-2005) (*)
  EC funded project: Interreg III-B SUDOE


• Eurotooling 21 (2004-2008) (*)
  EC funded project: FP6 - Integrated Project (IP-SME)


• e-SeSME (2005-2007)
  EC funded project: eTEN (Theme 6: increase the competitiveness of SMEs by their use of e-services)


• Vision-based measurement of shrinkage during drying of food material (2005-2008)
  France-Tunisia cooperation within the CNRS/DGRSRT Framework Programme


• ELICo: Intelligent Manufacturing of Composite Parts (2006-2008)
  Developed within the Competitiveness Cluster on Aeronautics, Space and Embedded Systems in Midi-Pyrénées and Aquitaine


• Advanced Forming (2006-2008)
  Developed within the Competitiveness Cluster on Complex Composite and Metallic Assemblies in Pays de la Loire


• OSMoDD : Optical NDT Technique for Shape Monitoring and Defect Detection (2006-2010) (*)
  Research contract with AIRBUS France, in partnership with LAAS-CNRS


• Optical-Fibre-based Pression Sensor for Intelligent Manufacturing of Composite Parts (2008-2010)
  National ANR project in partnership with CEA-LIST


• Study of the mechanical behavior of wood structures using non-contact optical methods (2008-2010)
  Collaboration with US2B within a France-Tunisia cooperation programme


• Vision-based Inspection of Mechanical Assembly (2012-2013) (*)
  AEROSAT project in partnership with NOOMEO, KineoCAM and LAAS-CNRS


• OSR (Optical Solar Reflector) Automatized Screening (2013-2014) (*)
  AEROSAT project in partnership with MAP, ALCI and Astrium


• AIR-COBOT: Aircraft enhanced Inspection by SmaRt & Collaborative ROBOT (2013-2016) (*)
  FUI14 project in partnership with AKKA Informatique et Systèmes, Airbus Group Innovation, 2MoRO Solutions, M3 Systems, LAAS-CNRS and Sterela.
  VIDEO


• Inspection of aeronautical mechanical parts with a pan-tilt-zoom camera, using the CAD model (2014-2015) (*)
  Research contract with G2Metric.


• Inspection of complex aeronautical mechanical parts using 2D and 3D vision (2016-2019) (*)
  Research contract with DIOTA.


• Study of the mechanical behavior of an adhesive bond by DIC (2018-2019) (*)
  Research contract with SAFRAN REOSC.


• Inspection of complex aeronautical mechanical parts using AI techniques (2019-2023) (*)
  Research contract with DIOTA.


• Detection, Characterisation and Localisation of damages on complex mechanical parts or structures (2020-2023) (*)
  Research contract with DIOTA, cofunded by Région Occitanie.