Resource Utilization Comparison between Plain FPGA and SoC Combined with FPGA for Image Processing Applications Used by Robotic Arms

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison of two FPGA implementations for controlling robotic arm with image processing. Image processing it's useful in robotic industry since robots can be made more autonomous this way to reduce as much as possible human intervention in production. Image processing it is also known to drain much resources from the control system. A comparison of more implementations can help chose the most suitable one. One implementation is the classic FPGA where everything is done from scratch and the other implementation is the more advanced one, where a microprocessor architecture is made from the FPGA, a graphical operating system is installed, and the control software is made in high level programming language.