FPGA Applications in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - A Review
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Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Applied Reconfigurable Computing |
| Subtitle of host publication | 13th International Symposium, ARC 2017, Delft, The Netherlands, April 3-7, 2017, Proceedings |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 217-228 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-319-56258-2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-319-56257-5 |
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| Publication status | Published - 3 Apr 2017 |
| Publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing - Duration: 1 Jan 2000 → … |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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| Volume | 10216 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
Conference
| Conference | International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing |
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| Period | 1/01/00 → … |
Abstract
Most of the existing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in different scales, use microcontrollers as their processing engine. In this paper, we provide a wide study on how employing Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) alters the development of such UAV systems. This work is organized based on the application’s criticality. After surveying recent products, we reviewed significant researches concerning the use of FPGAs in high-level control techniques necessary for navigation such as path planning, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), stereo vision, as well as the safety-critical low-level tasks such as system stability, state estimation and interfacing with peripherals. In addition, we study the use of FPGAs in mission-critical tasks, including target tracking, communications, obstacle avoidance, etc. In this paper, we mainly review other research papers and compare them in different terms such as speed and energy consumption.