Model-based Generation of Hardware/Software Architectures for Robotics Systems
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Abstract
Robotic systems compute data from multiple sensors to perform several actions (e.g., path planning, object detection). FPGA - based architectures for such systems may consist of several accelerators to process compute-intensive algorithms. Designing and implementing such complex systems tends to be an arduous task. This work proposes a modeling approach to generate architectures for such applications, compliant with existing robotics middlewares (e.g., ROS, ROS2). The challenge is to have a compact, yet expressive description of the system with just enough information to generate all required components and to integrate existing algorithms. This system model must be generalizable, so it is not application-dependent, and it must exploit the benefits of FPGAs over software solutions. Previous work mainly focused on individual accelerators rather than all components involved in a system and their interactions. The proposed approach exploits the advantages of model-driven engineering and model-based code generation to produce all components, i.e., message converters acting as middleware interfaces and wrappers to integrate algorithms. Data type and data flow analysis are performed to derive the necessary information to generate the components and their connections. Solutions to several identified challenges for generating entire systems from such models are evaluated using four different use cases.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2022 32nd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2022 |
Publisher | IEEE Xplore |
Pages | 153-159 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (electronic) | 978-1-6654-7390-3 |
ISBN (print) | 978-1-6654-7391-0 |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
Series | International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) |
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ISSN | 1946-147X |
Conference
Title | 2022 32nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications |
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Abbreviated title | FPL 2022 |
Conference number | 32 |
Duration | 29 August - 2 September 2022 |
Website | |
Location | Queen’s Film Theatre |
City | Belfast |
Country | United Kingdom |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0003-2571-8441/work/142240592 |
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ORCID | /0000-0002-6311-3251/work/142248746 |
Scopus | 85145550686 |
Mendeley | e784686b-8d2a-3156-84f1-da4f5a88cf93 |
ORCID | /0000-0002-3513-6448/work/168720192 |
Keywords
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Keywords
- FPGAs, Model-Based, HW/SW Co-Design, Code Generation, Robotics, Embedded Hardware