Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

Our current industrial contracts and granted projects are completely at the heart of the Bonus project. They are summarized in the following.

• EDF (2015-2019, Paris): this project deals with demand-side management in smart grids with EDF, a major electrical power player in France. The Energy Management System (EMS) in the home receives the market and system signals and controls the loads, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning systems (HVAC), storages and local generation units according to the user preferences. A large number of home users and appliances and several conflicting objectives have to be considered.

• ONERA & CNES (2016-2020, Paris): the focus of this project with major European players in vehicle aerospace is put on the design of aerospace vehicles, a high-dimensional expensive multidisciplinary problem. Such problem needs the use of the research lines of Bonus to be tackled effectively and efficiently. Two jointly supervised PhD students (J. Pelamatti and A. Hebbal) are involved in this project.

• In contact with Decathlon (2019, Lille): This project deals with scalable multi-objective optimization for the eco-design of material, clothing and sports shoes.

• In contact with Vinci Autoroutes (2019, Paris): This project deals with the optimization of deep neural networks for computer vision.