The projects: Research activities are carried out mainly through European, national or regional collaborative projects, focusing mainly on eco-friendly ship operation, maritime safety and autonomous ships.
Ongoing projects
Research actions are primarily conducted through collaborative projects (European, national, or regional) that mainly focus on the ecological operations of ships, maritime safety, or autonomous ships. Therefore, the current projects are:
- DIGI4MER: creation of a curriculum for seafarers to enable them to ensure the safe and optimised handling of wind-propelled commercial vessels. Project funded by the Pays de la Loire Region.
- SEMNA: development of a new generation of autonomous marine systems operating in supervised and multi-vehicle mode, in the fields of hydrography, inspection of offshore wind farms, and marine sciences. Project funded by BPI France
- SIRENE: Innovative System for Restoring the Level of Wakefulness when manoeuvring a commercial vessel. Proposing the development of alternative human-machine interfaces to the current “dead man” system, based on an objective measurement of vigilance and a countermeasure adapted to the officer’s condition. Project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
- OVERHEAT: a collaborative European project with 19 partners aiming to propose an innovative digital solution for fire-fighting on container ships. Project funded by the European Union (Horizon).
- NAVIRE PROPRE: aim is to evaluate, in a real and controlled environment, the performance of ships with hybrid hydrogen propulsion, based on an experimental infrastructure with approved marine equipment. Project funded by the IMF.
- ASSAILLANT: the project aims to study cyber threats targeting the information systems (IS) of ships and the logistical systems used in port handling. Project funded by the Normandy Region.
- SOMOS: the objective is to bring scientific advances and technological breakthroughs in digital platforms for the design and operation of ships using auxiliary sail propulsion. Project funded by the Defense Innovation Agency.
- Franco-Cuban Hubert Curien Partnership Carlos J. Finlay: funded through the so-named bilateral scientific cooperation programme . The scientific objective of the project is to increase the performance and potential of air quality measurement systems until obtaining a technical prototype usable in multiple environments.
Simultaneously, students carry out innovative work based on topics and issues proposed by industry. This approach enables future engineers to apply what they have learnt to innovation and to quickly come into contact with future employers.
Research at ENSM is developed through partnerships, but also by increasing the skills of the teams to meet innovation needs and train future engineers for the maritime economy.
ENSM offers a “Ship of the Future” course based on a regulatory approach designed to identify the hurdles associated with developments such as autonomous ships, the use of hydrogen onboard ships, etc.
Completed Projects
examples of PhDs undertaken at ENSM
- Seagoing Engineer: As part of the Bridge of the future project, study of the ergonomics of the Human-Machine Interface of the conning display and contextualisation of the information. Development of a mixed weather routing system. Improvement of a ship’s cyber security. Use of ship data for energy optimisation…
- Maritime Engineers: Treatment of exhaust gases from ships’ diesel engines. Installation of batteries and/or supercapacitors on board the Loire ferries. Regulatory aspects and certifications of the Plastic Odyssey ship…
Contact the dissertation supervisors:
– Seagoing Engineer: Inès Lambert, teacher at Le Havre campus ines.lambert@supmaritime.fr
– Maritime Engineers: Pascal Leblond, Headmaster of Nantes campus pascal.leblond@supmaritime.fr