PETER project

The PETER project explained in video :

PETER project: players specialising in high technology

What is the PETER project? First of all, it standsfor“Pan-European Training, research and education network on Electromagnetic Riskmanagement“.

The main aim of the PETER project is to establish a risk-based approach to electromagnetic interference (EMI) in systems, so that they maintain their reliability and safety throughout their entire life cycle.

The project consists of 15 doctoral students (ESR – Early-Stage Researches) and 12 (first-level) beneficiaries, including 5 high-tech companies (BARCO, MELEXIS, RH MARINE, MIRA and VALEO), 2 non-university research institutes (WIS and the FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE) and 5 universities/schools (KU LEUVEN, LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY OF HANNOVER, UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE, UNIVERSITY OF YORK and ESEO).

7 industrial and academic (second-tier) partners are also part of the consortium.

VALEO and ESEO are the 2 French players in this project.

The researchers are mobile, which means that they work directly on the project partners’ premises.

ESEO is currently hosting Qazi Mashaal Khan as ESR in charge of assessing the electromagnetic risks associated with ageing and obsolescence at the electronic component level. Qazi is a member of the ESEO RF-EMC research group.

This group, based at our school, carries out research into electromagnetic compatibility in integrated circuits: EMC (ElectroMagnetic Compatibility) modelling and measurements, circuit characterisation and design.

2 other ESRs (at VALEO and MELEXIS) are also co-directed/co-supervised by teacher-researchers from the RF-EMC team. In addition, 2 ESRs will be hosted by ESEO in 2022.

Objectives and areas of application

The ESRs have 4 main missions in the PETER project:

• Identification of electromagnetic risks: to develop dedicated hazard and risk analysis techniques that identify all the risks and hazards associated with EMI for a system under development in its electromagnetic environment in real operation.
• Methodologies for reducing electromagnetic risks: being able to reinforce the system under development against these electromagnetic risks to a level where they are no longer unacceptable in terms of reliability or safety.
• Evaluation, validation and verification of methodologies: improving EMI verification and validation methods which represent a much wider area of the system’s life cycle as well as the system’s actual electromagnetic environment.
• Case study of the various fields of application to be applied for the complete electromagnetic risk management approach.

In practical terms, many areas are now affected by these electromagnetic risks, due to the rapid development of technologies.

These include different industrial sectors (maritime, medical, automotive, critical infrastructures) and different levels of design (integrated circuits, sub-systems, systems and networks of systems).