High-Level Synthesis of an Efficient Hardware Implementation for a Smart Tactile Sensing System

María-Luisa Pinto-Salamanca, Wilson-Javier Pérez-Holguín, José Antonio Hidalgo-López

2025

Abstract

Complex algorithms’ execution can be improved by means of carefully designed digital hardware. These take advantage of parallelization techniques, heterogeneous architectures, pipelines, and reuse of functional blocks, among others, to achieve low power consumption, low area overhead, and high real-time operating speeds. However, the design process for these architectures is typically long and complex compared to equivalent software implementations. This paper presents the design process and implementation of a hardware architecture designed to reconstruct triaxial contact forces for innovative tactile sensing systems. Such algorithms were implemented in hardware on a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platform using a high-level hardware design approach, which allows for a significantly reduced design effort and accelerates the validation process of system functionality. The hardware design flow considers the integrated circuit design cycle and is based on the evaluation of functionality and efficiency metrics. The maximum estimation error for the hardware implementation was around 14.7%, with an average response time of 58.68 ms, a power consumption of 0.871 W, and a speed of up to 65.89 MBps. The hardware design and results obtained here can be applied in different tactile sensing systems such as robotics, prosthetic hands, biosensing, human-computer interfaces, and healthcare.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pinto-Salamanca M., Pérez-Holguín W. and Hidalgo-López J. (2025). High-Level Synthesis of an Efficient Hardware Implementation for a Smart Tactile Sensing System. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO; ISBN 978-989-758-770-2, SciTePress, pages 524-531. DOI: 10.5220/0013839800003982

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco25,
author={María-Luisa Pinto-Salamanca and Wilson-Javier Pérez-Holguín and José Hidalgo-López},
title={High-Level Synthesis of an Efficient Hardware Implementation for a Smart Tactile Sensing System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO},
year={2025},
pages={524-531},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013839800003982},
isbn={978-989-758-770-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO
TI - High-Level Synthesis of an Efficient Hardware Implementation for a Smart Tactile Sensing System
SN - 978-989-758-770-2
AU - Pinto-Salamanca M.
AU - Pérez-Holguín W.
AU - Hidalgo-López J.
PY - 2025
SP - 524
EP - 531
DO - 10.5220/0013839800003982
PB - SciTePress