ESTIA-Research: a multidisciplinary unit

Since 2009, all of ESTIA's research activities have been grouped together in a single team called ESTIA-Research, with an interdisciplinary vocation at the interface of Science and Technology and the Humanities and Social Sciences.

ESTIA-Research is dedicated to cutting-edge scientific and technological work. Its main mission is to study, design and implement Sustainable and Capacitive Interfaces to improve Human-Human, Human-System and System-System interactions. The results obtained are part of a dynamic transformation towards the industrial technologies of the future and take into account the energy transition and digital transformation.

Created in 1998, ESTIA-Research is a research unit under the auspices of the ESTIA Institute of Technology. The laboratory benefits from strategic and institutional partnerships:

• Since February 2020, it has been part of the Carnot ARTS Institute, strengthening its roots in applied research and industrial collaborations.
• Since 2019, ESTIA-Research has been a member of the Engineering and Digital Sciences department (SIN) of the University of Bordeaux.
• Since 2016, an association agreement with the University of Bordeaux has given the laboratory access to three doctoral schools (ED):
  • ED SPI n°209: Physical and Engineering Sciences,
  • ED MI n°39: Mathematics and Computer Science,
  • ED EES n°42: Enterprise, Economy and Society.

This structure enables ESTIA-Research to play a central role in the development and promotion of research, in direct link with industrial and societal issues.

ESTIA-Recherche in figures:

• 32 teacher-researchers(8 HDR including 6 Professors)
• 23 PhD students
• 1 post-doctoral student
• 22 technical and administrative staff
• 16 associate researchers

Scientific themes

• Creativity, Ecodesign and Circularity: How can the hybridisation of different systems (approaches, tools, methods, organisations) stimulate or make more efficient (economically and environmentally) the innovation processes of socio-economic players?
• Integration of Renewable Energies: How can the maximum amount of renewable energy be optimally integrated into electricity grids and overcome the scientific and technological hurdles posed by the new SmartGrids paradigm? By applying its expertise in microgrids, simulation and experimentation.
• Tangible Interaction, Gesture and Augmented Reality: What role does the metaphor of human-machine interaction (HMI) or human-system interaction play in optimising complex business tasks? The answer lies in the design, development and evaluation of tangible, gestural HMI integrating affective computing and augmented reality.
• Technological and Human Systems: How can we support the socio-technological transformations needed to design, produce and use complex systems within organisations? By integrating the human element into all phases of the life cycle of these systems, using a systemic vision derived from industrial engineering and management sciences.
• Manufacturing processes and modelling: How can we ensure that advanced processes (metal and composite additive manufacturing) are mastered so that we can guarantee that our parts are right the first time? By integrating physical phenomena and their numerical modelling right from the design stage and during implementation.

Laboratory publications