Real-time monitoring of imaging diagnostics applied to TORE plasma operation

Magnetic confinement fusion tokamaks are complex devices where a large amount of power is required to make the fusion reactions happen. In such experimental conditions, Plasma Facing Components (PFC) are subjected to high heat fluxes which can damage them. Machine protection functions must then be developed to operate current and future devices like ITER in the safest way. In current tokamaks like Tore Supra, infrared thermographic diagnostics based on image (region of interest) analysis and feedback control are used to measure and monitor the heating of the PFC during plasma operation. In this collaborative project, we propose a new vision-based approach for the automatic recognition of thermal events based on intelligent vision concepts for hot spot detection and thermal event recognition.

Video sensor network for early pest detection in greenhouses

The collaborative BioSerre project aims at the design and implementation of a real-time surveillance system that can be used inside actual agricultural sites to allow early detection of infestations in cultures. The benefits from the usage of such surveillance systems can be huge both from an economic and an ecological point of view by:

• allowing cost-effective intervention to fight against infestations
• minimizing losses in cultures caused by harmful insects
• favouring ecological solutions through introduction of auxilliaries (i.e. other insects known not be not harmful to the culture and to attack the eggs or the larvae of the harmful ones) thereby limiting chemical interventions (known to be harmful to the environment)