Autonomous systems and control

DPAC
Dependable Platforms for Autonomous Systems and Control
”Forskningsprofil för högpresterande pålitliga
elektronikplattformar för autonoma system och styrsystem”
Automation summit, 2015-09-03
kristina.lundqvist@mdh.se
fredrik.bruhn@mdh.se
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Objective:
●  Tool to help HEIs further profile, develop, and cultivate
their activities.
●  Help HEIs systematically, and over a longer period, develop
and establish internationally competitive research
environments …
●  … in well-defined areas of knowledge relevant to the
business partners and the business community.
DPAC
Dependable platforms for autonomous systems and control
●  8 years, 88 MSEK
●  Year 1-4: 10 companies
●  4 research groups
●  Today: 12 researchers
●  Goal: 25 researchers
●  3 projects
●  Predictability and dependability in parallel
architectures
●  Autonomous systems and control
●  Design methodologies
●  Demonstrators
Demonstrators
●  Unifying use-case
●  Vehicle fromVolvo CE
●  Integrate main results
●  Autonomous dependable functions
●  Project specific demonstrators
●  In conjunction with partner companies
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Scientific overview
The initial projects
●  Autonomous systems and control
●  Seamless integration of
●  autonomous systems
●  autonomous systems and humans
●  Autonomous system degration in respons to hardware failures
●  Design methodologies
●  How to use dependable platforms to facilitate efficient
development of new dependable products and services
●  Certification
●  Design assurence
●  …
●  Predictability and dependability in parallel architectures
●  …
High performing and dependability
is most often contradictory
●  Autonomous system degradation in response to hardware
failures
●  Predictability and dependability in parallel
architectures
●  Many, many, transistors (≥ 3 billion)
Many transistors → Space environment cause trouble on Earth
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Statistically significant effects on
common electronics
Flyg
Dr. Thomas Granlund, SAAB
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Hardware research
●  Leverage participation by BAP and sponsorship
from AMD
●  Safety critical HSA hardware and development tools
●  Kabini (Generation 1), Steppe Eagle (Generation 2),
Carrizo (Generation 3), Xen (Generation 4)
●  Leverage parallel projects,
●  MDH KKS “Hög” project with Sandvik, BAP, and
Motion Control on Intelligent Vision Inspection
●  MDH SNSB (Rymdstyrelsen) NRFP-SME 2014 with
Bruhnspace AB on Intelligent onboard processing
of RF information
HSA enabled Safety Critical
intelligent vision system
example (BAP IVS70)
SOC Power Plane
FPGA Power Plane
SOC DDR3-1333
2048 MB
FPGA
ARM Cortex-M3
CPU
PCIexpress
5-10 GT/s
SOC
QuadCore CPU
RADEON HD GPU
FPGA DDR3-667
512 MB