FPGAs in Industrial Control Applications

Author

Monmasson, Eric ; Idkhajine, Lahoucine ; Cirstea, Marcian N. ; Bahri, Imene ; Tisan, Alin ; Naouar, Mohamed Wissem

Author_Institution

Syst. et Applic. des Technol. de l´´Inf. et de l´´Energie (SATIE), Univ. of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France

Volume

7

Issue

2

fYear

2011

fDate

5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

224

Lastpage

243

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to review the state-of-the-art of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technologies and their contribution to industrial control applications. Authors start by addressing various research fields which can exploit the advantages of FPGAs. The features of these devices are then presented, followed by their corresponding design tools. To illustrate the benefits of using FPGAs in the case of complex control applications, a sensorless motor controller has been treated. This controller is based on the Extended Kalman Filter. Its development has been made according to a dedicated design methodology, which is also discussed. The use of FPGAs to implement artificial intelligence-based industrial controllers is then briefly reviewed. The final section presents two short case studies of Neural Network control systems designs targeting FPGAs.

Keywords

Kalman filters; field programmable gate arrays; industrial control; neurocontrollers; nonlinear filters; sensorless machine control; FPGA technology; artificial intelligence-based industrial controller; complex control application; design tool; extended Kalman filter; field programmable gate array; neural network control system; sensorless motor controller; Digital signal processing; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Industrial control; Random access memory; Real time systems; System-on-a-chip; Artificial intelligence (AI); design methodology; design tools; extended Kalman filter (EKF); field programmable gate array (FPGA); industrial control applications; neural networks (NNs); sensorless motor controller; system-on-chip (SoC);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1551-3203

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TII.2011.2123908

Filename

5739129