Reconfigurable architectures for machine perception. An approach for autonomous vehicle navigation

This paper deals with one of the current research fields developed by the computer architecture group at the University of Valencia. The work presented is concerned about the design of a reconfigurable module, designed with programmable logic, which can implement several interesting robot navigation algorithms. The use of reconfigurable logic in autonomous vehicles can be a good approach for achieving hardware speed for some intensive computations. It will be also possible, with this approach, to have software reconfigurability; that is, the same hardware can implement several different algorithms. In this way the autonomous vehicle will choose the most adequate algorithm for the task that it is going to carry out.