Platforms - Research Centres IMT Nord Europe

Digital Systems

Energy Environment

HumanIS (Human-centric Intelligent Systems)

Themes and challenges The HumanIS (Human-centric Intelligent Systems) instrumented platform offers mobile demonstrators and a wide range of services based on CERI SN’s work on human-centered systems in the following areas: Understanding human activities and detecting abnormal behavior Human-machine collaboration…

Canal Simulator

This platform enables the simulation of phenomena related to the operation of a laboratory-scale canal. It can be used to study the impacts of locks, barges, diversions, pumping and precipitation on the canal. Different models of locks, barges and tidal…

Production-Oriented Robotic Simulator (SIROP)

The SIROP platform is a multidisciplinary system designed to study automation, robotics, flow management and other fields with a common context. This production line simulator equipped with 8 robots and 10 conveyors can be associated with a virtual version in…

Light Vehicle for Data Acquisition (VLAD)

The Light Vehicle for Data Acquisition (VLAD) platform was designed and created during the ORIO project. It is equipped with four steerable high-resolution cameras, two 3D LIDARs capable of capturing point clouds at a rate of 20 Hz, a plane…

BORiS (Building Oriented Indoor Studies)

Experimental BORiS (Building Oriented Indoor Studies) Platform The Experimental BORiS platform for Building Oriented Indoor Studies, is a 20 m2 energy-plus building that enables in-situ studies on a 1:1 scale and in real conditions, with a complete interior space interacting…

IRINA (Innovative Room for INdoor Air studies)

The large experimental IRINA room (40 m3) used as the Innovative Room for Indoor Air studies can reproduce real indoor air conditions in a controlled way at a scale of 1:1. The key parameters of its operations have been optimised…

ATOLL (ATmospheric Observations in liLLe)

Located in the heart of the University of Lille campus in Villeneuve d’Ascq, on the roof of the Physics Department, the ATOLL multi-laboratory platform is instrumented to measure a set of atmospheric variables of interest for climate, air quality and…

DouAir (mobile photochemical reactor)

DouAir is a mobile photochemical reactor that can be used (1) in the laboratory for homogeneous gas phase kinetic studies or (2) in the field to study the in-situ reactivity of an air mass. The advantage of this approach in…

CiGas European Centre of Expertise

ACTRIS (www.actris.eu) is a European research infrastructure producing high-quality data and services on short-lived atmospheric constituents and on the processes leading to the variability of these constituents in natural and controlled atmospheres. ACTRIS integrates, harmonises and distributes data sets, activities…

ALHEX (Analysis of Heat eXchanger performances)

The experimental and digital ALHEX platform is dedicated to characterising exchanges and improving the performance of thermofluidic components. This platform has both a digital and experimental component. The experimental part corresponds to a set of facilities and test benches designed…

POPCOM (Platform for the development and OPtimisation of new COMposite processes)

POPCOM is IMT Nord Europe’s Platform for the development and Optimisation of COMposite processes. It provides relevant industries with an updated advanced manufacturing platform for design/manufacturing/control support to accelerate their developments and ensure lasting competitiveness. It integrates various high-speed manufacturing…

Halle Plasturgie (Plastics engineering)

Halle Plasturgie is home to a range of machinery for industrial plastic processing procedures, (co)extrusion, profiles and sheets/plates, blow-moulding and blow film (co)extrusion, (co)injection, physical foaming devices for injection and extrusion moulding, thermoforming, rotational moulding and thermocompression. A specific area…

Advanced processes and civil engineering

The Advanced Processes and Civil Engineering platform – currently being developed – concerns research activities targeting implementation processes for geo-sourced (from mineral resources) and bio-sourced (from biomass of plant or animal origin) building materials. There is a specific focus on…

Analytical Tests and Observations (EAO)

The EAO platform is part of the Materials and Processes CERI. The EAO cluster has several instruments for physicochemical analysis and observations at the micrometre and nanometre-scale. The EAO cluster’s equipment includes: Two X-ray diffractometers:D2 PHASER-BRUKER DIFFRACTOMETERD8 ADVANCE-BRUKER DIFFRACTOMETER Analysis:…