UMR 6602 - UCA/CNRS
Tutelle secondaire CHU Clermont-Ferrand
Membre de Clermont Auvergne INP
Young Researchers Award
3 awards won by our doctors at the 27th edition of the Clermont-Ferrand Young Researchers Award :
Clermont Auvergne Innovation award for Guillaume Mougeot, Doctor of Image, perception system, robotics (ED SPI) for his thesis in collaboration with IGReD and Oxford (Nuclear Plant Envelope).
INP Polytech award for Guy Vano Tsamo Tagouche, Doctor in Materials Engineering (ED SPI) for his thesis.
de la Fondation UCA award for Ismaël Septembre, Doctor in Physics - Dense media and materials (ED SF) for his thesis.
We congratulate Sayed Mohammadreza Shetab Bushehri, Doctor of Electrical, Electronics and Systems Engineering (ED SPI) who brilliantly defended robotics for deformable objects manipulation.
Multi-technical development and characterization platform
The Institut Pascal, UMR of UCA and CNRS, has just equipped itself with a new System for the Analysis and Structuring of Surfaces (SASS) with funding from the European Union within the framework of the FEDER, the Region AURA and with the support of UCA. This platform is dedicated to the analysis of organic and inorganic materials with a volume that extends from the surface to a depth of approximately 50-100 Å. There are many characterization techniques available: AR-XPS, UPS, ARPES, REELS providing different information related to the depth of analysis and the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
ISPR axis seminary
Michelin-IP collaboration
As part of a collaboration between Institut Pascal and Michelin factory, a real demonstration took place on Thursday, November 10, 2022 to show the capabilities of an autonomous vehicle to move at 40 km/h on a track that is particularly hard on the tyres. This first demonstration is part of a more global project which should enable the two partners to show the capacity of this type of vehicle to carry out certain tire tests independently, but also to work on the development of new tests, some of which are more specific for these vehicles of tomorrow.
The 2022 science festival
For the 2022 edition of the Science festival, Institut Pascal was present on all its research topics on different sites on the campus. The demonstrations to budding researchers ranged from the Pavin Solaire platform, through autonomous vehicles, robots and 3D, the magical powers of black light and in form of an escapegame for misterys of gas sensors.
Agricultural robot days
The two technical days of the R2M network and the AgROBOFood project co-organized by INRAE, CEA and Institut Pascal take place on October 12 & 13th in the site of Montoldre around themes of navigation, safety and artificial intelligence for the development of mobile robots in agriculture and open environment.
Urban areas are a high-stake target of climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. To understand, predict, and improve the energy performance of cities, the scientific community develops numerical models that describe how they interact with the atmosphere through heat and moisture exchanges at all scales.
The elected representatives of the Institut Pascal PhD community organized a moment of relaxation for their last meeting of the academic year. Their monthly Doctor'IP meeting at the end of July was not the subject of scientific debates in the context of a meal break, but led the participants to solve the puzzles of an escape game on the theme of "the attack of Montferrand".
"In a cubic centimeter of matter, one atom in 10 million is on the surface, but in a cubic nanometer, nearly 80% of the atoms are on the surface."
The ESCA platform is composed of several means of physicochemical characterization of surfaces.
Electronic spectroscopies (XPS, UPS, EELS, EPES ...) allow the elemental and functional chemical analysis of the extreme surface (≤10 nm) of all types of solid materials.
The ultra-high vacuum chamber (UHV) is coupled to a surface preparation chamber: deposition of ultra-thin layers, ion erosion and plasma treatment of surfaces.
IP is a partner of the MECD Institute. Through its 4 Technical Centers, its 4 university laboratories and its CTL Network, the MECD Institute is developing an R&D offer that anticipates the major challenges of the construction sector.
https://www.instituts-carnot.eu/fr/institut-carnot/construction-durable-mecd
Core departements
M3G department
ISPR department
GePEB department
PHOTON department
IGT
