Modern embedded computing platforms used within Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are nowadays leveraging more and more often on heterogeneous computing substrates, such as newest Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices. Compared to general purpose platforms, which have a fixed datapath, FPGAs provide designers the possibility of customizing part of the computing infrastructure, to better shape the execution on the application needs/features, and offer high efficiency in terms of timing and power performance, while naturally featuring parallelism. In the context of FPGA-based CPSs, this article has a two fold mission. On the one hand, it presents an analysis of the Damped Least Square (DLS) algorithm for a perspective hardware implementation. On the other hand, it describes the implementation of a robotic arm controller based on the DLS to numerically solve Inverse Kinematics problems over a heterogeneous FPGA. Assessments involve a Trossen Robotics WidowX robotic arm controlled by a Digilent ZedBoard provided with a Xilinx Zynq FPGA that computes the Inverse Kinematic.

Feasibility Study and Porting of the Damped Least Square Algorithm on FPGA / Sau, C; Fanni, T; Rubattu, C; Fanni, L; Raffo, L; Palumbo, F. - In: IEEE ACCESS. - ISSN 2169-3536. - 8:(2020), pp. 175483-175500. [10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3025367]

Feasibility Study and Porting of the Damped Least Square Algorithm on FPGA

Fanni, T;Rubattu, C;Fanni, L;Raffo, L;Palumbo, F
2020-01-01

Abstract

Modern embedded computing platforms used within Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are nowadays leveraging more and more often on heterogeneous computing substrates, such as newest Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices. Compared to general purpose platforms, which have a fixed datapath, FPGAs provide designers the possibility of customizing part of the computing infrastructure, to better shape the execution on the application needs/features, and offer high efficiency in terms of timing and power performance, while naturally featuring parallelism. In the context of FPGA-based CPSs, this article has a two fold mission. On the one hand, it presents an analysis of the Damped Least Square (DLS) algorithm for a perspective hardware implementation. On the other hand, it describes the implementation of a robotic arm controller based on the DLS to numerically solve Inverse Kinematics problems over a heterogeneous FPGA. Assessments involve a Trossen Robotics WidowX robotic arm controlled by a Digilent ZedBoard provided with a Xilinx Zynq FPGA that computes the Inverse Kinematic.
2020
Feasibility Study and Porting of the Damped Least Square Algorithm on FPGA / Sau, C; Fanni, T; Rubattu, C; Fanni, L; Raffo, L; Palumbo, F. - In: IEEE ACCESS. - ISSN 2169-3536. - 8:(2020), pp. 175483-175500. [10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3025367]
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