The mapping of an adaptive robot control algorithm onto RM, a reconfigurable machine for highly parallel real-time applications

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Authors: S.S. Erdogan, E.T. Tunali, N. Kuo

[1993] Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Applications, , , International, Full Text, vol 2, pp 104-108

DOI: 10.1109/rta.1993.263106

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The paper describes a configuration of the reconfigurable machine (RM) specifically optimized to handle inverse dynamics computation for robot control and to implement a neural network control strategy in a parallel platform. The difficulties of operating on a reconfigurable platform are overcome by defining a fixed processing element (PE) model with multiple processing components and by using the PE's local memory for storing micro-instructions to drive the parallel processors. Traditionally, reconfigurable platforms have been used to contain all the execution sequences and a local memory is usually provided to store the necessary data. VHDL description of the model has been used for simulation, synthesis and optimization for mapping to XILINX 4005 FPGA technology.>

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