Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Grants with Industry

PhD project with EDF – Electrical device ageing monitoring

Participants : Nassif Berrabah, Qinghua Zhang.

A joint PhD project between Inria and EDF (Electricité de France) was started in December 2014 and finished in November 2017 with Nassif Berrabah's PhD thesis defense. The purpose of this study is to develop methods for the monitoring of electrical instruments in power stations, in order to prevent failures caused by ageing or accidental events. This project has been funded by EDF and by the ANRT agency. The main outcome of this project is an efficient reflectometry-based method for resistive fault detection, localization and quantification, capable of dealing with both distributed and localized faults, with associated data processing tools taking into account practical constraints in industrial applications. These results have led to a patent jointly filed by EDF and Inria.