Description du projet
Une technologie d’émetteurs-récepteurs optiques pour évaluer les performances à bord des avions et des satellites
Les systèmes de surveillance de l’état des structures en service sont largement utilisés dans les applications aéronautiques pour évaluer les performances et l’intégrité des structures composites des aéronefs, pour une surveillance in situ en temps réel. Le processus d’assemblage, d’intégration et de test qui comprend l’équipement électrique de soutien au sol est essentiel dans l’industrie spatiale, car il permet au concepteur d’un satellite ou d’un lanceur spatial d’intégrer et de valider les fonctions électriques avant le lancement. Les opérateurs et les fabricants de satellites cherchent à améliorer les performances du traitement embarqué et la technologie des émetteurs-récepteurs optiques répond à ces besoins. Le projet RYTHMS, financé par l’UE, intégrera l’optoélectronique dans les communications de données des avions et des satellites en développant et en faisant la démonstration d’un émetteur-récepteur multicanal à haut débit de données, d’une plateforme de banc d’essai générique, d’outils et d’une méthodologie.
Objectif
For aeronautic applications, in-service Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is now established as a key technique to assess the performance and the integrity of composite aircraft structures for real-time in situ monitoring. In space industry, the Assembly Integration and Test including Electrical Ground Support Equipment is an essential tool enabling a satellite or space launcher developer to integrate and validate the electrical functions of its spacecraft before the launching process. In addition satellite operators and worldwide SatCom manufacturers are willing to improve the on-board processing capacity, functionality and flexibility. In this context, opto-transceiver technology becomes a major building block regarding the highlighted aeronautic, space and ground telecommunication needs.
The RYTHMS project aims to bring the benefits of optoelectronics to aircraft and satellite data communications supporting multiple payload networks and improving performance (connectivity, flexibility, bandwidth, and number of channels). Especially, the development of a multi-channel high data rate transceiver (25 Gb/s per channel) will be demonstrated thanks to a dedicated optical test bench in order to establish the probabilistic reliability model of such products.
To satisfy this very innovative challenge and to push back the frontiers of the current state-of-the-art, RYTHMS’ consortium involves industrial partners and academics holding the adequate heritage to elaborate and validate reliability model of high data rate optoelectronic transceivers for use in Aeronautics and Space systems. RYTHMS will develop an advanced generation of optoelectronic transceiver modules, a generic test bench platform and tools and methodology to validate such modules in compliance with the general requirements of DO-160 Standard. A set of extensive electro-optical characterization tests and an accelerated tests DoE optimized program to predict the transceiver reliability will be carried out.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringastronautical engineeringspacecraft
- natural sciencesphysical scienceselectromagnetism and electronicsoptoelectronics
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaeronautical engineering
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinateur
31770 COLOMIERS
France