Title
Ultrasonic Levitation with Software-Defined FPGAs and Electronically Phased Arrays
Abstract
We present a software-defined platform for ultrasonic levitation research based on the Xilinx Zynq SoC using an array of ultrasonic transducers. The platform provides controlled movement of the levitated objects as well as object detection based on the received echo. Hardware acceleration of the phased calculations is obtained thanks to the programmable logic that deploys a user-defined and adaptive number of compute engines described in c++. Additional features available in the Zynq device that are deployed in this platform include the large number of parallel I/Os connected to the FPGA Mezzanine connector (FMC), the integrated ADC capabilities that enable the capture of echo signals and ambient temperature measurements used to correct the ultrasound wave delays. Both planar and spherical cap phased arrays are created and in this paper we investigate the capabilities and limitations of the different designs to improve the stability of the levitation process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/AHS.2019.000-2
2019 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
ultrasonic,levitation,FPGA,Zynq
Transducer,Ultrasonic sensor,Object detection,Computer science,Field-programmable gate array,Real-time computing,Software,Levitation,Hardware acceleration,Computer hardware,Programmable logic device
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1939-7003
978-1-7281-4651-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
6