Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften

The Chair of Adaptive Dynamic Systems (ADS) is participating in the Dresden Long Night of Science again this year.  In small video clips you can see how our research helps to make small embedded computer systems highly performant and at the same time very energy efficient.  A central role is played by the fact that programs can be executed on a so-called Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) instead of on a processor. An FPGA is an integrated circuit that can be reconfigured at runtime. There are two presentations:

• Saving energy with FPGA-based platforms
• Improving computation capabilities of robots with FPGAs

Saving energy with FPGA-based platforms

In this presentation you see, how an FPGA is not only used for encrypting and decrypting of data, but how the energy consumption can be reduced with special algorithms.

We are very happy to answer questions between 8pm and 10pm via BigBlueButton at:
https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/link.php?m=135306&p=96ea7eaf

Improving computation capabilities of robots with FPGAs

Robots usually process information from several sensors and have to produce results as fast as possible but this is not always possible due to the capabilities of Central Processing Units (CPUs) that work sequentially. Therefore, we use Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to implement processing algorithms as their internal parallel architecture allows to perform multiple computations concurrently.
We show different robotic applications and two use cases with FPGAs. The first one focuses on a Non-linear Model Predictive Controller (NMPC) for drone. The second one is an object avoidance application on a skid-steer mobile robot.

We are very happy to answer questions between 8pm and 10pm via BigBlueButton at:
https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/link.php?m=136673&p=84fc382b