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The joint laboratory Esense Lab was launched when ELWAVE was created in 2018 by Pierre Tuffigo and his meeting with Frédéric Boyer, director of the biorobotics laboratory at the Institut Mines-Télécom Atlantique.
The vocation of this joint laboratory is to allow the transfer to the industry of more than 10 years of research on electric sense technology, a biomimicry technology inspired by tropical fish for navigation, detection and characterization.
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The electric sense arouses a strong interest on the part of manufacturers and operators of underwater vehicles to offer an alternative to sonar and camera. The electric sense makes it possible to create a virtual skin around the vehicle and to perceive the environment in an omnidirectional way, to avoid obstacles, and to detect and characterize any object having a conductivity different from the water in which it operates.
The collaboration between IMT Atlantique and EWAVE takes place through common patents, the management of projects or the execution of collaborative research works. These activities make it possible to adapt the electric sense technology to multiple civil and defence applications.