
William J E DerigentUniversity of Lorraine | UdL · CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
William J E Derigent
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L’architecture, l’ingénierie et la construction impliquent intrinsèquement des processus complexes, de multiples parties prenantes et des scénarios de prise de décision dynamiques. Le succès de tels projets repose en grande partie sur la circulation efficace d’informations précises et pertinentes auprès des diverses personnes impliquées. Cet articl...
Various works propose solutions addressing the sustainability of IoT technologies to reduce their energy consumption, especially in the domain of wireless sensor networks. The diversity of applications, as well as the variability of their long-term constraints, forces them to dynamically adapt the network through time. Accordingly, this study forma...
Recently, wireless sensor networks have been widely used for environmental and structural safety monitoring. However, node batteries cannot be replaced or easily recharged in harsh environments. Maximizing network lifetime remains a challenging issue in designing WSN routing. This paper introduces GTIACO, a novel metaheuristic clustering protocol....
This article presents the design of communicating materials and their application to sensing communicating concrete for construction industry. After presenting the concept of communicating materials and its issues in the context of the construction and structure health monitoring, this article depicts the main contributions made so far in the physi...
Dynamic holonic control architectures (D-HCAs) are architectures whose global organization can be modified constantly all along the system execution. Deploying them in a real industrial environment needs to solve problems, with few implementation guidelines. Testing different switching mechanisms is not easy since it also requires major development...
L’industrie 4.0 pose de nouvelles problématiques de recherche qui doivent être abordées également en enseignement. Dans ce contexte, il est nécessaire de sensibiliser les étudiants à ces problématiques via des plateformes intégrant les derniers concepts abordés en recherche et aux dernières technologies aussi proches que possible de la réalité indu...
Les systèmes industriels cyber-physiques opèrent simultanément dans les mondes physiques et numériques des entreprises. Pierre angulaire de la 4e révolution industrielle, ils s’imposent de plus en plus comme une voie d’avenir auprès des académiques et des industriels. L’essence même de ces systèmes reste toutefois souvent mal comprise ou mal interp...
Les systèmes industriels cyber-physiques opèrent simultanément dans les mondes physiques et numériques des entreprises. Pierre angulaire de la 4e révolution industrielle, ils s’imposent de plus en plus comme une voie d’avenir auprès des académiques et des industriels. L’essence même de ces systèmes reste toutefois souvent mal comprise ou mal interp...
Les systèmes industriels cyber-physiques opèrent simultanément dans les mondes physiques et numériques des entreprises. Pierre angulaire de la 4e révolution industrielle, ils s’imposent de plus en plus comme une voie d’avenir auprès des académiques et des industriels. L’essence même de ces systèmes reste toutefois souvent mal comprise ou mal interp...
The Emergency Department (ED) represents the first stage of the path for some patients in a hospital. The JUNEAU project aims to propose a Digital Twin (DT) for the ED to both visualise the service behaviour in quasi real-time, forecast and anticipate its behaviour to control the “Emergency throughput time” indicator. This DT will be centred on the...
The introduction of semantic technologies to the construction field is a concept that has been explored many times over the last few years. However, building renovation tends to be overlooked when talking about advancements in construction. Even if renovation projects consists 57% of construction activities, the renovation field is still the least...
During the last twenty years, many innovative control architectures of manufacturing systems have been developed and promoted in literature. One of the main attributes, in correlation with the aims of Industry 4.0 paradigm, is to define control architectures where both the actors and the interactions between these actors could cope with an evolutio...
Published in Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future, Theodor Borangiu, Damien Trentesaux, Paulo Leitão editors, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 1083, pp. 407-422, Cham, Springer, 2023
In 2010, the Research Center for Automatic Control (CRAN) proposed the concept of “communicating materials”, which led to this current project. Indeed, 3 French laboratories (the CRAN, LAAS and LIB) associated with one company (360SmartConnect/FINAO SAS) are working in the framework of the McBIM project to design a “communicating concrete”, made of...
The industrialized building process has encouraged the utilization of new Information Technologies to boost the productivity and quality of construction projects. The use of the BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology combined with real time monitoring of the construction site can improve the planning throughout the building lifecycle. In th...
This chapter introduces the intelligent product concept and produces a history of the work done in this field. It presents the different definitions of intelligent product and provides a comparison. Derigent et al. proposed a representation of the works related to the intelligent product and their relations, in the form of a co‐occurrence network,...
This chapter provides a non‐exhaustive picture of the opportunities, experiences and transformations that have taken place over the last 10 years. Many of these have been, and increasingly will be, supported by the emergence of “new” technologies originally developed for the manufacturing sector. The chapter presents an example of an industrial cyb...
Industrial cyber-physical systems operate simultaneously in the physical and digital worlds of business and are now a cornerstone of the fourth industrial revolution. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the way forward for academics and industrialists alike. The very essence of these systems, however, is often misunderstood or misinterpreted....
This chapter presents a study of existing holonic architectures in order to identify the contributions of this type of control architecture to industrial cyber‐physical systems (ICPS). First, their historical characteristics are presented, and demonstrate an interesting performance in the physical part of ICPS. The chapter then presents the evoluti...
This paper presents contributions of the ANR McBIM (Communicating Material for BIM) project regarding Digital Building Twins, specifically how Semantic Web technologies allow providing explainable decision-support. Following an introduction stating our understanding of a Digital Building Twin (DBT), namely a lively representation of a buildings' st...
Industrialized building process has encouraged the utilization of new Information Technologies to boost the productivity and quality of construction projects. The use of the BIM (Building Information Model-ing) technology combined with real time monitoring of the construction site could improve the planning throughout the building lifecycle. In the...
The flexibility claimed by the next generation production systems induces a deep modification of the behaviour and the core itself of the control systems. Over-connectivity and data management abilities targeted by Industry 4.0 paradigm enable the emergence of more flexible and reactive control systems, based on the cooperation of autonomous and co...
This work presents a method for retrieving 3D building contours usable in facade retrofitting projects, which uses a parametric modeling workflow that utilizes a point-cloud slicing method to retrieve such 3D contours. Since current commitments by European governments seek to reduce energy consumption as a means to reduce carbon emissions from buil...
Current commitments by European governments seek to improve energy consumption as a means to reduce carbon emissions from building stock by 2050. Within such context, retrieving reliable three-dimensional contours from point clouds becomes an important step in developing facade retrofitting solutions since facade retrofitting projects often make us...
In the framework of the SOHOMA 2020 special session “SOHOMA 10th-year anniversary”, this paper aims to make a review of the evolution of one important concept studied in the SOHOMA community, namely the Intelligent Product concept. This paper is not review of Intelligent Products - there are several of these already - but rather examines the histor...
Information and communication technologies, like Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) allow to creating new objects made of materials including micro-elements able of data sensing, storing, processing, and communicating. Communicating Materials (CM) is a new paradigm inspired by the Intelligent Product concept. This paper presents a recursive Multi-Agent...
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in intelligent product especially for industrial applications. A special intelligent product was proposed ten years ago, and this paradigm was named “communicating material”, i.e. materials equipped with micro components able to sense, store and communicate data. Communicating material needs a...
Wireless Sensor Networks are very convenient to monitor structures or even materials, as in McBIM project (Materials communicating with the Building Information Modeling). This project aims to develop the concept of “communicating concretes,” which are concrete elements embedding wireless sensor networks, for applications dedicated to Structure Hea...
The flexibility claimed by the next generation production systems induces a deep modification of the behaviour and the core itself of the control systems. Over-connectivity and data management abilities targeted by Industry 4.0 paradigm enable the emergence of more flexible and reactive control systems, based on the cooperation of autonomous and co...
The rapid development of Internet of Things has enabled intelligent products that can be applied to the Industrial 4.0, Smart City, Smart Supply Chain and Smart Buildings. Its autonomy and flexibility make possible to construct intelligent manufacturing systems. In this paper, we present the McBIM project that is based on the concept of communicati...
Product Lifecycle Monitoring with new communication technologies is a huge challenge. Designing physical and digital architectures able to manage the monitoring is a critical step to achieve this goal. McBIM project consists in designing a communicating concrete and digital services that can be used by Building Information Modeling (BIM) applicatio...
In wireless sensor networks, the aim of storage protocols is to efficiently replicate data across nodes and to improve data collection and querying by sinks. Among them, in-network storage protocols replicate data in a set of nodes that depends on some characteristics such as network topology and geographic location. Researchers have proposed vario...
De nombreux programmes pédagogiques de formations proposent de faire travailler les étudiants sur des projets, en groupe de tailles différentes et avec plus ou moins d'encadrement. Ceux-ci peuvent prendre diverses formes avec des finalités parfois difficiles à identifier et une évaluation encore plus compliquée. Le programme pédagogique national du...
The need of building process industrialization has seed up the use of new Information Technologies to enhance the productivity and quality of building projects. In particular, the use of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) assets and real time follow-up based on the Cyber Physical System paradigm could be a source of valuable data to support pl...
This work is a positioning research paper for energy efficient building based on ICT solutions. Through the literature about the solutions for energy control of buildings during operational phase, a 3-layers model is proposed to integrate these solutions: first level consists in communication technologies, second level is about data modelling and t...
This work is a positioning research paper for energy efficient building based on ICT solutions. Through the literature about the solutions for energy control of buildings during operational phase, a 3-layers model is proposed to integrate these solutions: first level consists in communication technologies, second level is about data modelling and t...
The flexibility claimed by the next generation production systems induces a deep modification of the behavior and the core itself of the control systems. Overconnectivity and data management abilities targeted by Industry 4.0 paradigm enable the emergence of more flexible and reactive control systems, based on the cooperation of autonomous and conn...
The flexibility claimed by the next generation production systems induces a deep modification of the behavior and the core itself of the control systems. Overconnectivity and data management abilities targeted by Industry 4.0 paradigm enable the emergence of more flexible and reactive control systems, based on the cooperation of autonomous and conn...
The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is a widely applied
multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique, making it possible to
tackle vagueness and uncertainty arising from decision makers, especially
in a pairwise comparison process. Indeed, as the human brain reasons with
uncertain rather than precise information, pairwise comparisons m...
In order to ensure a reliable building life cycle management, it is essential to generate an accurate and up-to-date referential mock-up that will be used for renovation, extension and maintenance. Based on this statement, we carried out, in a previous work, a research study in the sake of reconstructing a 3D CAD model from a point cloud acquired u...
RESUME : La flexibilité revendiquée par les systèmes de production de prochaine génération induit une profonde modification du comportement et du coeur même des systèmes de contrôle. L'hyper-connectivité et les capacités de gestion des données ciblées par le paradigme Industrie 4.0 permettent l'émergence de systèmes de contrôle plus flexibles et ré...
In french.
Projet planning practice for 1st Year of DUT students at IUT Nancy-Brabois (Université de Lorraine)
Commercial aircrafts use black-box required for crash investigation purposes. While a black-box can be easily recovered in crash events on land, the same does not apply to crash events in great deep ocean water. This paper presents a new solution towards solving black-box data loss on ocean crash using a paradigm called communicating materials. The...
Commercial aircrafts use black-box required for crash investigation purposes. While black-box can be easily recovered in crash events on land, the same does not apply to crash events in great deep ocean water. This paper presents a new solution towards solving black-box data loss on ocean crash using a paradigm called communicating materials. The s...
A new area is coming with communicating materials able to provide diverse functionalities to users all along the product lifecycle, during the design, manufacturing, use and dismantling phases. These materials can track their own evolution all along the product lifetime, gather helpful information and thus allow information continuum at all time an...
Commercial aircrafts use black box comprising a Flight Data Recorder (FDR) required for crash investigation purposes. While FDR can be easily recovered in crash events on land, the same does not apply to crash events in great deep ocean water. This paper presents a new solution towards solving FDR data recovery using a paradigm called “communicatin...
A new area is coming with communicating materials able to provide diverse functionalities to users all along the product lifecycle, during the design, manufacturing, use and dismantling phases. These materials can track their own evolution all along the product lifetime, gather helpful information and thus allow information continuum at all time an...
A new area is coming with communicating materials which is able to provide diverse functionalities to users all along the product lifecycle. These materials can track their own evolution all along the product lifetime, gather helpful information and thus allow information continuum at all time and everywhere. These functionalities are fulfilled via...
This paper presents an application of the measurements-based AHP to define a two-stage algorithm for product-driven systems control, in case of an unexpected event. This algorithm is made of two stages: the first one aims at defining which kind of strategy the product should adopt (wait¸ react by itself or switch back to centralized mode) while the...
A new area is coming with intelligent materials able to provide diverse functionalities to users all along the product lifecycle, during the design, manufacturing, use and dismantling phases. These materials can track their own evolution all along the product lifetime, gather helpful information and thus allow information continuum at all time and...
La qualité de l’air intérieur a un impact déterminant sur l’exposition des personnes à des polluants. La société Airbox Lab développe un objet connecté, appelé Footbot, qui mesure toutes les minutes plusieurs paramètres relatifs à la qualité de l’air : température, humidité, concentrations de COV, CO2, formaldéhyde et particules fines (pm). Au-delà...
Le développement durable s’impose maintenant comme une évidence, une voie obligatoire nécessaire pour continuer à produire. Le Grenelle de l’environnement 2007-2012, La mise en œuvre d’une stratégie nationale de développement durable de 2010 à 2013 et la signature du traité de Paris lors de la COP21 de 2016 sont autant de signes gouvernementaux mon...
Intelligent products carrying their own information are more and more present nowadays. A lot of research works focuses on the usage of such products during the manufacturing or delivery phases. This led to important contributions concerning product data management in the framework of HMS (Holonic Manufacturing Systems). This paper aim is to: (1) m...
The rapid development of Internet of Things has triggered the multiplication of communication nodes based on Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in various domains such as building, city, industry, and transport. These communication nodes are attached to a thing or directly included in the material of the thing...
A new Internet of Things area is coming with communicating materials, which are able to provide diverse functionalities to users all along the product lifecycle. As example, it can track its own evolution which leads to gather helpful information. This new paradigm is fulfilled via the integration of specific electronic components into the product...
The rapid development of Internet of Things has triggered the multiplication of communication nodes based on Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in various domains such as building, city, industry, and transport. These communication nodes are attached to a thing or directly included in the material of the thing...
With traditional PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), people think towards the future: first comes product development, then manufacturing, then support and finally disposal -- data flows only in forward direction. With the CL2M (Closed-Loop Lifecycle Management) concept, there are also flows going backwards, enabling better visibility and control o...
Intelligent products are an undeniable asset for efficient product lifecycle management (PLM), providing ways to capture events related to physical objects at various locations and times. Today and more than ever before, PLM tools and systems must be built upon standards for enhancing interoperability among all product stakeholders and developing t...
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have recently gained a great deal of attention
as a topic of research, with a wide range of applications being explored such
as communicating materials. Data dissemination and storage are very important
issues for sensor networks. The problem of designing data dissemination
protocols for communicating material needs d...
RESUME : La qualité de l'air intérieur a un impact déterminant sur l'exposition des personnes à des polluants dans le monde moderne du fait que les populations passent beaucoup de leur temps dans différents environnements intérieurs. La société Anaximen développe un objet connecté, appelé Alima, qui mesure toutes les minutes plusieurs paramètres re...
Indoor air quality is a major determinant of personal exposure to pollutants in today's world since people spend much of their time in numerous different indoor environments. The Anaximen company develops a smart and connected object named Alima, which can measure every minute several physical parameters: temperature, humidity, concentrations of CO...
Building Information Management systems have started to leverage new kinds of digital information infras- tructures that integrate activities related to design, budgeting, scheduling, analysis, material management, and human resources. Companies implementing such systems have no other option today than exchanging information among themselves in a p...
The so-called Internet of Things (IoT) presents a tremendous opportunity for multitude of users to be connected to anything, whenever needed, wherever needed, by whoever needs it. Such opportunities, nonetheless, require more advanced and standardized communication interfaces to facilitate interactions between any types of “things” (smart devices,...
The communicating material is a new paradigm of Internet of Things. It is designed to perform efficient product control and ensure an information continuum all along the product life cycle. Therefore, storage of life cycle information and data dissemination in communicating materials are very important issues. This paper provides solutions for stor...
The communicating material is a new paradigm of Internet of Things. It is designed to perform efficient product control and ensure an information continuum all along the product life cycle. Communicating material is obtained by scattering a huge amount of microelectronic components such as sensor nodes. However, a critical aspect of application wit...
The amount of data output into our environment is increasing each day, and the development of new technologies constantly redefines how we interact with information. In the context of product life cycle management, it is not uncommon to use intelligent products to ensure an information continuum throughout the product life cycle (e.g., for traceabi...