Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

Grenoble Idex projects

Mistis is involved in a transdiciplinary project NeuroCoG and in a newly accepted cross-disciplinary project (CDP) Risk@UGA. F. Forbes is also a member of the executive committee and responsible for the Data Science for life sciences work package in another project entitled Grenoble Alpes Data Institute.

• The main objective of the Risk@UGA project is to provide some innovative tools both for the management of risk and crises in areas that are made vulnerable because of strong interdependencies between human, natural or technological hazards, in synergy with the conclusions of Sendai conference. The project federates a hundred researchers from Human and Social Sciences, Information & System Sciences, Geosciences and Engineering Sciences, already strongly involved in the problems of risk assessment and management, in particular natural risks. The PhD thesis of Meryem Bousebata is one of the eleven PhDs funded by this project.

• The NeuroCoG project aims at understanding the biological, neurophysiological and functional bases of behavioral and cognitive processes in normal and pathological conditions, from cells to networks and from individual to social cognition. No decisive progress can be achieved in this area without an aspiring interdisciplinary approach. The interdisciplinary ambition of NeuroCoG is particularly strong, bringing together the best scientists, engineers and clinicians at the crossroads of experimental and life sciences, human and social sciences and information and communication sciences, to answer major questions on the workings of the brain and of cognition. One of the work package entitled InnobioPark is dedicated to Parkinson's Disease. The PhD thesis of Veronica Munoz Ramirez is one of the three PhDs in this work package.

• The Grenoble Alpes Data Institute aims at undertaking groundbreaking interdisciplinary research focusing on how data change science and society. It combines three fields of data-related research in a unique way: data science applied to spatial and environmental sciences, biology, and health sciences; data-driven research as a major tool in Social Sciences and Humanities; and studies about data governance, security and the protection of data and privacy. In this context, a 2-year multi-disciplinary projects has been granted in November 2018 to Mistis in collaboration with the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience. The objective of this project is to develop a statistical learning technique that is able to solve a problem of tracking and analyzing a large population of single molecules. The main difficulties are: 1) the large number of observations to analyse, 2) the noisy nature of the signals, 3) the definition of a quality index to allow the elimination of poor-quality data and false positive signals. We also aim at providing a powerful, well-documented and open-source software, that will be user-friendly for non-specialists.

Also in the context of the Idex associated with the Université Grenoble Alpes, Alexandre Constantin was awarded half a PhD funding from IRS (Initiatives de Recherche Stratégique), 50 keuros.

Competitivity Clusters

The MINALOGIC VISION 4.0 project:mistis is involved in a three-year (2016-19) project. The project is led by VI-Technology, a world leader in Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) of a broad range of electronic components. The other partners are the G-Scop Lab in Grenoble and ACTIA company based in Toulouse. Vision 4.0 (in short Vi4.2) is one of the 8 projects labeled by Minalogic, the digital technology competitiveness cluster in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, that has been selected for the Industry 4.0 topic in 2016, as part of the 22nd call for projects of the FUI-Régions, for a total budget of the project of 3,4 Meuros.

Today, in the printed circuits boards (PCB) assembly industry, the assembly of electronic cards is a succession of ultra automated steps. Manufacturers, in constant quest for productivity, face sensitive and complex adjustments to reach ever higher levels of quality. Project VI4.2 proposes to build an innovative software solution to facilitate these adjustments, from images and measures obtained in automatic optical inspection (AOI). The idea is - from a centralized station for all the assembly line devices - to analyze and model the defects finely, to adjust each automatic machine, and to configure the interconnection logic between them to improve the quality. Transmitted information is essentially of statistical nature and the role of sc mistis is to identify which statistical methods might be useful to exploit at best the large amount of data registered by AOI machines. Preliminary experiments and results on the Solder Paste Inspection (SPI) step, at the beginning of the assembly line, helped determining candidate variables and measurements to identify future defects and to discriminate between them. More generally, the idea is to analyze two databases at both ends (SPI and Component Inspection) of the assembly process so as to improve our understanding of interactions in the assembly process, find out correlations between defects and physical measures and generate accordingly proactive alarms so as to detect as early as possible departures from normality.

Networks

MSTGA and AIGM INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) networks: F. Forbes and J.B Durand are members of the INRA network called AIGM (ex MSTGA) network since 2006, http://carlit.toulouse.inra.fr/AIGM, on Algorithmic issues for Inference in Graphical Models. It is funded by INRA MIA and RNSC/ISC Paris. This network gathers researchers from different disciplines. mistis co-organized and hosted 2 of the network meetings in 2008 and 2015 in Grenoble. Thibaud Rahier and Brice Olivier participated as speakers to meetings of the network in 2018.