Focusing on meaningful innovation

    • Presentation

    The Rober­val Lab­o­ra­to­ry (a research unit in mechan­ics, ener­gy and elec­tric­i­ty) focus­es on the design of inno­v­a­tive mechan­i­cal / mul­ti-phys­i­cal com­po­nents and sys­tems, propos­ing to car­ry out sci­en­tif­ic and tech­no­log­i­cal research in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary con­text, a nec­es­sary con­di­tion for the design, behav­iour and dura­bil­i­ty of com­plex sys­tems. In par­tic­u­lar, the Unit makes a sub­stan­tive con­tri­bu­tion to the def­i­n­i­tion of a frame­work for the study of these com­plex sys­tems (choice between a sys­temic or mech­a­nis­tic approach; choice of rel­e­vant scales for the study of variability; …).

    Direc­to­ry and orga­ni­za­tion chart

    A word from the director

     « The pol­i­cy of the Rober­val Lab­o­ra­to­ry is to encour­age cross-dis­ci­pli­nary research projects, a nec­es­sary step in the imple­men­ta­tion of a sys­temic approach. With­in the lab­o­ra­to­ry, this trans­ver­sal­i­ty is reflect­ed in the shar­ing of research themes between the dif­fer­ent teams, with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on the dia­logue between test­ing and cal­cu­la­tion and the devel­op­ment of mul­ti-phys­i­cal mod­els.

    This need for trans­ver­sal­i­ty goes beyond the perime­ter of the lab­o­ra­to­ry, since the teams par­tic­i­pate in the work of the LabeX  Con­trol of Tech­no­log­i­cal Sys­tems-of-Sys­tems, with two oth­er UTC-CNRS Units.

    The lab­o­ra­to­ry is struc­tured into five research teams: the Numer­i­cal Mechan­ics team, which devel­ops meth­ods and numer­i­cal mod­els to solve and opti­mise com­plex mul­ti-phys­i­cal prob­lems; the Acoustics and Vibra­tions team, which works on the con­trol of acoustic com­fort relat­ed to trans­port, equip­ment and build­ings; the Mate­ri­als and Sur­faces team, which devel­ops inno­v­a­tive mate­ri­als and stud­ies the dura­bil­i­ty of mate­ri­als and struc­tures by focus­ing specif­i­cal­ly on sur­face phe­nom­e­na and inter­faces; the Mecha­tron­ics, Ener­gy, Elec­tric­i­ty, Inte­gra­tion team, which devel­ops work with a strong exper­i­men­tal approach for mod­els val­i­da­tion or proof of con­cept around ener­gy con­ver­sion (where at least one of the ener­gies is mechan­i­cal), and prob­lems of inte­gra­tion in sys­tems; the Inte­grat­ed Sys­tems team: Prod­uct / Process which pro­pos­es meth­ods and mod­els for an inte­grat­ed approach to the prod­uct-process cou­ple and the con­trol of their robust­ness.

    The Unit is part­ner of a Lab­Com with the com­pa­ny Delta­cad.  The lab­o­ra­to­ry is strong­ly involved in the IRT Raile­ni­um, and these research themes are in line with the con­cerns expressed by the two world-class com­pet­i­tive­ness clus­ters present in the region, I-Trans and Indus­tries Agro-Resources ».
    Mar­i­on Ris­betLab Direc­tor

    History

    2000

    The Rober­val Lab­o­ra­to­ry was cre­at­ed in 2000, fol­low­ing the merg­er of the LG2mS (Lab­o­ra­toire de Génie Mécanique pour les Matéri­aux et les Struc­tures : Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing for Mate­ri­als and Struc­tures) direct­ed at the time by J.F. De Bell­e­val and whose work was cen­tred around numer­i­cal mechan­ics, vibro-acoustics and mate­ri­als, with a small enti­ty called « Machines et Sys­tèmes de Haute Pré­ci­sion » (High Pre­ci­sion Machines and Sys­tems) which led to the emer­gence of a « mecha­tron­ics » component.

    2004

    In 2004, J.M. Roe­landt took over the man­age­ment of the Rober­val Lab­o­ra­to­ry. In 2008, Lab­o­ra­toire Rober­val wel­comed the arrival of mem­bers of the young ODIC team: Deci­sion Sup­port Tools for Inno­va­tion, Design and Pro­duc­tion. This new growth of the lab­o­ra­to­ry led to the emer­gence of an « indus­tri­al engi­neer­ing » axis.

    2011

    In 2011, the Rober­val Lab­o­ra­to­ry com­bined its 3 his­tor­i­cal teams (Dig­i­tal Mechan­ics - Acoustics and Vibra­tions - Mate­ri­als and Sur­faces) with an emerg­ing area of research, « Inte­grat­ed Sys­tems in Mechan­ics », which housed the research work car­ried out in the fields of « mecha­tron­ics » and « indus­tri­al engineering ».

    2014

    In 2014, the Rober­val Lab­o­ra­to­ry launched a project to merge with the Lab­o­ra­toire d’Elec­tromé­canique de Com­piègne (LEC). Under the impe­tus of Jérôme Faver­geon, direc­tor of the Rober­val Lab­o­ra­to­ry since 2015, and Guy Friedrich, direc­tor of the LEC, this merg­er led in 2018 to a new struc­ture of the unit organ­ised around 5 teams: Dig­i­tal Mechan­ics - Acoustics and Vibra­tions - Mate­ri­als and Sur­faces - Mecha­tron­ics, Ener­gy, Elec­tric­i­ty, Inte­gra­tion - Inte­grat­ed Sys­tems: Prod­uct / Process

    Partnerships

    The Rober­val lab­o­ra­to­ry main­tains numer­ous part­ner­ships through the research projects to which its mem­bers con­tribute. These part­ner­ships con­cern both pub­lic and pri­vate struc­tures, in France and abroad. In addi­tion, the Rober­val Lab­o­ra­to­ry is active with­in the IRT Raile­ni­um and the ITE VEDECOM. The part­ner­ships detailed below con­cern struc­tured work­ing groups as well as joint laboratories.

    Cre­at­ed in 2019, the FuseMet­al Joint Lab­o­ra­to­ry is the result of over 20 years of col­lab­o­ra­tion between the Rober­val lab­o­ra­to­ry and Arcelor­Mit­tal France (whose auto­mo­tive research cen­tre is locat­ed in Montataire).

    The work of the joint FuseMet­al research team is part of the strat­e­gy for a com­pet­i­tive and sus­tain­able Euro­pean trans­port sys­tem and will con­tribute to meet­ing the Euro­pean Union’s objec­tives of reduc­ing car­bon emis­sions in this sec­tor by 60% by 2050.

    This joint lab­o­ra­to­ry is co-financed by the Euro­pean Union with­in the frame­work of the ERDF-ESF Picardy 2014-2020 Oper­a­tional Programme

    Joint Lab Director

    Mar­i­on Ris­bet
    Phone : +33 3 44 23 79 75
    Mail : marion.risbet@utc.fr

    Cre­at­ed in 2014, the DIMEXP Joint Lab­o­ra­to­ry (DIg­i­tal Mock­up for mul­ti-EXPer­tis­es inte­gra­tion) is the result of a col­lab­o­ra­tion ini­ti­at­ed in the 1980s between UTC/Roberval and Delta­CAD.

    This com­pa­ny, locat­ed a few kilo­me­tres from the UTC research cen­tre, is char­ac­terised in par­tic­u­lar by its dual com­pe­tence: « busi­ness » (mechan­ics, ther­mal, flu­id, risk, design, etc.) and « IT » (design, pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of software).

    Favoured by the ANR Lab­Com  project call in 2013, the desire to become part­ners became a real­i­ty in 2014 with the sign­ing of a 5-year lab­o­ra­to­ry con­tract, renewed in 2019 for a fur­ther 5 years. This con­tract defines the com­mon perime­ter of Research & Devel­op­ment and the terms and con­di­tions of trans­fer and val­ori­sa­tion between the two enti­ties. The DIMEXP Lab­Com is organ­ised around two com­mit­tees and coun­cils: a steer­ing com­mit­tee which gives the Lab­Com’s main ori­en­ta­tions and imple­men­ta­tion guide­lines and a sci­en­tif­ic and indus­tri­al coun­cil which has an advi­so­ry, mon­i­tor­ing and val­i­da­tion role. This sci­en­tif­ic and indus­tri­al coun­cil is made up of both aca­d­e­mics and indus­tri­al­ists. The sci­en­tif­ic and devel­op­ment work is car­ried out by 15 peo­ple divid­ed between the ROBERVAL research unit and Delta­CAD. The­mat­i­cal­ly, the DIMEXP lab­com focus­es on the chal­lenge of dig­i­tal con­ti­nu­ityof infor­ma­tion in prod­uct and process engi­neer­ing. This chal­lenge is rein­forced by the cur­rent con­text of increas­ing data vol­ume in engi­neer­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing. This is part­ly due to the increase in the diver­si­ty and con­fig­u­ra­tion of prod­ucts, (con­nect­ed objects), the life cycle man­age­ment of prod­ucts and ser­vices, and the require­ment for prod­uct trace­abil­i­ty through­out the life cycle.

    DIMEXP Director

    Alexan­dre Durupt
    Phone : +33 3 44 23 46 11
    Mail : alexandre.durupt@utc.fr

    Trainings

    The Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing depart­ment aims at train­ing gen­er­al­ist engi­neers capa­ble of meet­ing the expec­ta­tions of play­ers in any indus­tri­al sec­tor requir­ing the skills of a mechan­i­cal engineer.

    The train­ing cov­ers a wide range of sec­tors such as auto­mo­tive, rail­ways, ship­build­ing, aero­space, aero­nau­tics, bio­me­chan­ics, ener­gy, mate­ri­als pro­cess­ing, robot­ics, busi­ness soft­ware pub­lish­ing, design and con­sult­ing firms… The Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer of the UTC is nat­u­ral­ly inte­grat­ed in all these fields, and inter­venes through­out the life cycle of indus­tri­al prod­ucts through the dif­fer­ent phas­es of a project: research and devel­op­ment, pre­lim­i­nary project, devel­op­ment, indus­tri­al­i­sa­tion, pro­duc­tion, exploita­tion, recycling…

    The Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing depart­ment trains stu­dents from BAC+2 over 3 years, pro­vid­ing them with sol­id knowl­edge and skills in the fields of Mechan­ics and Indus­tri­al Engineering.

    Details on IM department

    Com­plex Struc­tures and Mechan­i­cal Sys­tems (SMC) course

    The aim of the Com­plex Mechan­i­cal Struc­tures and Sys­tems (SMC) course is to train spe­cial­ists in under­stand­ing the mechan­i­cal behav­iour of mate­ri­als and in dig­i­tal sim­u­la­tion, capa­ble of design­ing and val­i­dat­ing new mate­ri­als, struc­tures and mechan­i­cal sys­tems and opti­mis­ing their per­for­mance. Empha­sis is laid on the abil­i­ty to con­duct and inte­grate a joint exper­i­men­tal mod­el­ling and numer­i­cal sim­u­la­tion approach. This career path leads to imme­di­ate entry as a research and devel­op­ment engi­neer in the indus­tri­al sec­tors of mechan­ics, par­tic­u­lar­ly trans­port, ener­gy and the envi­ron­ment, as well as in aca­d­e­m­ic or indus­tri­al research through the pur­suit of a doctorate.

    Details on SMC

    Mecha­tron­ic Sys­tems Course (SMT) course

    The aim of the Mecha­tron­ic Sys­tems (SMT) course is to train future man­agers in this mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary engi­neer­ing field, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the design and con­trol of com­plex mecha­tron­ic sys­tems rang­ing from microsys­tems to vehi­cles. This trans­verse train­ing relates to the fields of mechan­ics, elec­tron­ics and com­put­er sci­ence and is focused on the sys­tem aspect, which offers a high poten­tial of oppor­tu­ni­ties for grad­u­ates. This course is there­fore intend­ed both for mecha­tron­ic engi­neers seek­ing to strength­en their knowl­edge and for mechan­ics wish­ing to open up to mecha­tron­ics. The course is inte­grat­ed into the train­ing sec­tion of the Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Excel­lence (Labex) « Sys­tem of Sys­tems Mastery ».

    Details on SMT

    Contacts

    Laboratory Director

    Mar­i­on Ris­bet
    Phone : +33 3 44 23 79 75

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    Administrative and financial management

    Nathalie Bar­rast
    Phone : +33 3 44 23 45 27

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