Exceptional facilities for better understanding and for testing
Over the years, IFSTTAR has set up and maintained several software and hardware platforms to evaluate the performance of a variety of technical systems.
These original and often unique tools are essential for carrying out the Institute's research. They have, in general, received financial support from the State, the regions in which they were developed, Europe or the French National Research Agency.
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Telecommunications Evaluation and Testing Platform
Location : IFSTTAR’s Villeneuve d’Ascq site
Purpose : To evaluate and test wireless telecommunications systems that are currently being developed, in particular those using high frequency signals.
Example of a task: Evaluating new telecommunications systems in the laboratory before full-scale trials.
Find out more... http://www.emulradio4rail.eu/
Contacts : marion.berbineau(at)ifsttar.fr, fouzia.boukour(at)ifsttar.fr, yann.cocheril(at)ifsttar.fr
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PREDISSAT platform
Location : IFSTTAR's Villeneuve d’Ascq site
Purpose : The PREDISSAT platform (Predictive software for satellite availability in the field of transport) performs obstacle detection on reception of GNSS signals obtained from the synchronised processing of 360° fish-eye images and raw GNSS data.
Example of a task : Improving GNSS systems for railways
Find out more...
Marais J., Tay S., Flancquart A., Meurie C., Weighting with the preknowledge of GNSS signal state of reception in urban areas, ENC GNSS 2015, 9 avril 2015, Bordeaux.
Contact : juliette.marais(at)ifsttar.fr
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Cybersecurity Laboratory
Location : IFSTTAR's Villeneuve d’Ascq site
Purpose : To identify and analyse the impact of electromagnetic attacks on communications systems in order to develop surveillance, detection, warning and countermeasure systems.
Find out more...
http://www.secret-project.eu/IMG/pdf/white_paper_security_of_railway-against_em_attacks.pdf
Contacts : virginie.deniau(at)ifsttar.fr, jean.rioult(at)ifsttar.fr, christophe.gransart(at)ifsttar.fr
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ERTMS traffic simulation Platform
Location : IFSTTAR's Villeneuve d’Ascq site
Purpose : Simulating train driving, traffic and signalling for the ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System).
Find out more...
https://www.estas.ifsttar.fr/linstitut/cosys/laboratoires/estas-ifsttar/equipements/plate-forme-de-simulation-ertms/
Contacts : simon.collart-dutilleul(at)ifsttar.fr, georges.mariano(at)ifsttar.fr
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Recife software platform
Location : IFSTTAR's Villeneuve d’Ascq site
Purpose : Developing and evaluating railway traffic management algorithms in order to help operators reduce delays.
Find out more...
https://www.estas.ifsttar.fr/linstitut/cosys/laboratoires/estas-ifsttar/equipements/plate-forme-logicielle-recife/
Contact : gregory.marliere(at)ifsttar.fr
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SYSIFE platform
Location : IFSTTAR's Bouguenais site
Purpose : Conducting static and fatigue testing of models of innovative railway structures up to the scale of 1:1 in order to extend their service life.
Contact : thomas.gabet(at)ifsttar.fr
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Pavement fatigue carousel
Location : IFSTTAR's Bouguenais site
Purpose : Performing accelerated testing of real structures under the effect of heavy loads.
Although it was initially designed to test road infrastructure, it is also used for rail infrastructure.
To find out more ... Fatigue carousel brochure
Contact : pierre.hornych(at)ifsttar.fr
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Sense-city Equipex
Location : Ifsttar's Marne-la-Vallée site
Purpose : To conduct a true-scale evaluation, under extreme conditions, of the behaviour of the sensors and sensor networks that can then be deployed on railway infrastructure.
Find out more... http://sense-city.ifsttar.en/
Contact : anne.ruas(at)ifsttar.fr
