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Electrical & Information

Engineering

Concentration project : What you unwittingly say :
ENGINEERING CHALLENGE TERM decryption and automated analysis of nonverbal
behaviours
To take up the challenges of automated understanding of human behaviours
CORE COURSE : OPTIMISATION (2,5 ECTS) and emotions, the audio, video and machine learning communities gather
(MANDATORY) around the world every year. Through this project, you will be able to participate
in one of these challenges. You will have a large dataset representing people
This course will explore various fundamental notions of both continuous and in action and you will have to automatically determine their behaviour and
discrete optimisation. The following topics will be addressed and implemented : emotions. Each project team focuses on a particular study (e.g. voice, face)
formulation of optimisation problems, existence conditions for global and local and all teams will gather their work to collectively deposit a unique participation
minimizers, convexity, duality, Lagrange multipliers, first-order methods, linear in the international challenge.
programming, integer linear programming, branch and bound approaches,
preliminary stochastic optimisation concepts.
ACADEMIC TERM
CONCENTRATION (SELECT ONE)
• SMART GRIDS AND ENERGY CHALLENGE : ENERGY ELECTIVE SERIES 2.4 (2,5 ECTS)
MANAGEMENT IN ISOLATED AREAS (7,5 ECTS)
• SERIOUS GAME
Concentration course : Renewable energies and What if you save the world from your console ? In this elective, you will
microgrids discover how the serious game has transformed the transmission of ideas
in many areas, from learning how to read to car repair, through education to
gestures of care. These examples will allow you to become a designer of your
RENNES resources and the main principles of their conversion into electricity ? ELECTIVE SERIES 2.5 (2,5 ECTS)
This course will tackle the following issues: what are the wind and solar
own serious game, because your ideas also deserve to be playable !
What are the storage technologies, particularly batteries, that can manage
the variability of these sources ? What are the technical, environmental and
economic challenges of these technologies ? In addition, wind and solar
energy are much more decentralized than conventional thermal power plants. • INTELLIGENT WIRELESS ACCESS & EXPERIMENTATION
This leads to the emergence of the notion of “ microgrid ”, similar to short The goal of this course is to present to the student an insight on the basic
food supply chains (SFSCs). principles of communication systems : smart grids, intelligent transport, smart
homes, smart cities, radio communication devices and equipment, mobile
Concentration project : Insular carbon-free microgrid phone services local networks, broadcasting, RFID, TV, Internet of Things, etc.
SEMESTER BY COURSEWORK
The generation of electricity in a microgrid can be done using fossil fuels • MODEL-BASED PREDICTIVE CONTROL
(diesel, generators) or renewable energies (solar panels, etc.). The latter ones Model Predictive Control (MPC) is the advanced control technique the most
are generally cheaper, but their intermittency pushes to supplement them widely used for engineering systems. Its industrial use is booming because it
with more expensive but controllable means. The size of each component optimises the operation of an industrial process and its energy efficiency, while
of the microgrid must be optimized according to different criteria : cost, integrating operating constraints. This course presents the main principles of
quality of service, energy independence, greenhouse gas emissions, as well predictive control in a precise, readable and intuitive mathematical formalism,
as the management of energy flows. The project addresses these different which is not reserved to automation engineers.
optimisation challenges in the real case of an isolated island.
ELECTIVE SERIES 2.6 (2,5 ECTS) (SELECT ONE)
• DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY SERVING THE HUMAN WORLD
(7,5 ECTS) • VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY
You will discover the main principles that underlie mixed realities - this
Concentration course : 2D-3D image and sound continuum of which virtual and augmented realities are representatives. Behind
analysis these new modes of reality, you will understand the technological issues that
lock or open the way to new exchanges between user and system. Finally,
you will have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practise through
In this module, you will discover an overview of analysis and synthesis a project on a topic of your choice - go to the (inter)action!
techniques for 2D and 3D image and sound, through precise use cases. You
will be the actors of the understanding and the artificial modification of your • MICRO-GRID
environment !
Microgrids are complex interconnections of components whose control is
both a difficult and crucial problem for its proper operation. It is this problem
that this elective aims to address. The course enables students to discover the
overall modelling and operation of a microgrid with its electrical components
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