Embedded Mechatronic Systems: Analysis of Failures, Predictive Reliability

Mechatronics brings together computer science, mechanics and electronics. It enables us to improve the performances of embedded electronic systems by reducing their weight, volume, energy consumption and cost. Mechatronic equipment must operate without failure throughout ever-increasing service lives. The particularly severe conditions of use of embedded mechatronics cause failure mechanisms which are the source of breakdowns. Until now, these failure phenomena have not been looked at with enough depth to be able to be controlled.

Provides a statistical approach to design optimization through reliabilityPresents an experimental approach for the characterization of the development of mechatronic systems in operating modeAnalyzes new tools that effect thermal, vibratory, humidity, electric and electromagnetic stresses

1. Reliability-Based Design Optimization
2. Non-Destructive Characterization by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of Interfaces in Mechatronic Devices
3. Method of Characterizing the Electromagnetic Environment in Hyperfrequency Circuits Encapsulated within Metallic Cavities
4. Metrology of Static and Dynamic Displacements and Deformations Using Full-Field Techniques
5. Characterization of Switching Transistors under Electrical Overvoltage Stresses
6. Reliability OF Radio Frequency Power Transistors to Electromagnetic and Thermal Stress
7. Internal Temperature Measurement of Electronic Components
8. Reliability Prediction of Embedded Electronic Systems: the FIDES Guide
9. Study of the Dynamic Contact Between Deformable Solids