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Announcing the Winners of 'Experimenting with Sensor Fusion'

rscasny — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:38:47 GMT

The Experimenting with Sensor Fusion Design Challenge, sponsored by AMD Xilinx, and featuring Spartan-7 SP701 FPGA Evaluation Kit has officially concluded. We had 4 participants, including the Grand Prize Winner and Runner-up. Our judges h...(read more)

Experimenting with Sensor Fusion: Augmented Reality - Drone Pose (Blog #2)

_david_ — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 13:54:04 GMT

Table of Contents Introduction Project Description (Recap) Design Process Task #1: Implement an unaccelerated OpenCV application which handles the pose graphics. Task #2: Simplify the OpenCV functions. Task #3: Accelerate the Ope...(read more)

Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Summary Blog

javagoza — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:15:00 GMT

Sensor Fusion for Firefighters Summary At the end of October 2022 I was selected to participate in the Experimenting with Sensor Fusion Challenge sponsored by element14 and Xilinx. Since we received the SP701 evaluation kit, it has been two months of...(read more)

Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Thermal Vision, Compass and Environmental HUD monitor with the Spartan-7

javagoza — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:53:00 GMT

By incorporating a low resolution thermal imaging overlay using the MLX90640 thermal array, we have already integrated all the sensors planned into the system. Table of Contents Project Update Fusion of Sensors Viewing in the dark FPGA. You got ...(read more)

Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Compass and Environmental HUD monitor with the Spartan-7

javagoza — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 20:33:00 GMT

We added a hardware accelerated compass synthesized from C in Vitis HLS to our environmental HUD monitor on the AMD Xilinx SP701 development board. We have tested two different magnetometers: the ST's LSM9DS1 of the Digilent PmodNAV module and ...(read more)

Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Environmental monitor heads-up display on Xilinx Spartan-7 SP701 development board

javagoza — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 07:49:00 GMT

The project is progressing well. I added some sensors to be able to monitor the environment through the heads-up display. I also built a customizable module with Vitis HLS to display up to 16-digit virtual seven-segment display modules overlaid on th...(read more)

FGPA-based VSLAM for Indoor Navigation: Blog Post 2

jwr50 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:53:36 GMT

Summary and Current Status My entry for the Experimenting with Sensor Fusion from Element14 and AMD/Xilinx Design Challenge is a Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) platform for navigation of indoor spaces. This is an ambitious proj...(read more)

Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Displaying heads-up video on the live feed

javagoza — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 20:54:57 GMT

In this blog, I rebuild from scratch the demo application from the Spartan-7 SP701 FPGA Evaluation Kit Demo Project designed by Adam Taylor (adamtaylorcengfiet). The challenging element of that project is to show a Heads-Up display during the live br...(read more)

Experimenting with Sensor Fusion: Augmented Reality - Drone Pose (Blog #1)

_david_ — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:17:53 GMT

Table of Contents Introduction Project Description Hardware Task Breakdown Graphics Video Capture and Display Pipeline Integration Current Status About Me Introduction Greetings Element14 community! This is my introductory post for the ...(read more)

Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. AMD Xilinx SP701 - MIPI Video Pipe Camera to HDMI Display

javagoza — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:34:00 GMT

I'm still learning more about image processing before I start building my Experimenting with Sensor Fusion Challenge project. In this blog I share my experiences rebuilding the Xilinx MIPI CSI-2 RX subsystem IP Core sample application. The applicatio...(read more)

Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Getting Started with the AMD Xilinx SP701

javagoza — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:12:00 GMT

In this post I describe my first contact with the AMD Xilinx SP701 evaluation board . I briefly review the contents of the evaluation kit. Then I connect the evaluation board for the first time and launch the execution of the built-in tests. The...(read more)

FGPA-based VSLAM for Indoor Navigation: Blog Post 1

jwr50 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:15:00 GMT

The Experimenting with Sensor Fusion Design Challenge from Element14 is an exciting chance to combine video and accelerometer data to solve a problem of our choosing. The provided kit consists of a Digilent Pcam 5C Mega Pixel camera m...(read more)

Sensor Fusion for Firefighters. Introductory blog.

javagoza — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:12:00 GMT

This is the introductory blog of my participation in the Experimenting with Sensor Fusion Challenge. First of all, I would like to thank the sponsors: Element14 and AMD Xilinx, for choosing my application to participate in this challenge. In this blo...(read more)