Recent ADD-ON progress
The Laboratoire Hubert Curien‘s MOPERE and Functional Materials and Surfaces teams are collaborating with PhotonFirst (NL, https://www.photonfirst.com/) and Airbus (as Topic Manager) within the CleanSky 2 project ADD-ON’s framework (n°785341).
ADD-ON aims to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a unique Optical Sensor Network to control various classes of distributed and punctual optical sensors. This network will monitor, in a variety of profiles of use (in-flight monitoring, on-ground operation), the structural health monitoring measurands of interest: delamination, corrosion, cracking, loading and can simultaneously sustain data transfer. Among the different technologies developed within the ADD-ON’s framework is a very innovative sensing technology based on sol-gel waveguides by Maxime Royon, post-doc researcher funded by ADD-ON. Do not hesitate to have a look at the four articles published in Aerospace and Materials MDPI journals last year:
- Materials 2020, 13(17), 3730; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13173730
- Aerospace 2021, 8(4), 109; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace8040109
- Materials 2021, 14(19), 5754; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14195754
- Aerospace 2021, 8(12), 401; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace8120401
Interested to learn more about ADD-ON (https://addon-project.eu/) ? Have a look at the ADD-ON article published in Clean Sky 2 magazine: https://www.clean-aviation.eu/media/results-stories/the-cross-functional-enabling-tech-supporting-clean-sky-demonstrators
Contact: Maxime Royon maxime.royon @ univ-st-etienne.fr
Above: Illustration of the ADD-ON Optical Sensor Network as the airplane’s nervous system ©PhotonFirst and Illustrations of the sol-gel sensor technology developed at UJM