RT Journal Article
T1 Low-Cost FPGA-Based Electronic Control Unit for Vehicle Control Systems
A1 Pérez-Fernández, Javier
A1 Alcázar-Vargas, Manuel Gonzalo
A1 Velasco García, Juan María
A1 Cabrera-Carrillo, Juan Antonio
A1 Castillo-Aguilar, Juan Jesús
K1 Control electrónico
K1 Circuitos integrados
AB The development of new control algorithms in vehicles requires high economic resources, mainly due to the use of generic real-time instrumentation and control systems. In this work, we proposed a low-cost electronic control unit (ECU) that could be used for both development and implementation. The proposed electronic system used a hybrid system on chip (SoC) between a f ield-programmable gate array (FPGA) and an Advanced RISC (reduced instruction set computer) Machine (ARM) processor that allowed the execution of parallel tasks, fulfilling the real-time requirements that vehicle controls demand. Another feature of the proposed electronic system was the recording of measured data, allowing the performance of the implemented algorithm to be evaluated. All this was achieved by using modular programming that, without the need for a real-time operating system, executed the different tasks to be performed, exploiting the parallelism offered by the FPGA as well as the dual core of the ARM processor. This methodology facilitates the transition between the designing, testing, and implementation stages in the vehicle. In addition, our system is programmed with a single binary file that integrates the code of all processors as well as the hardware description of the FPGA, which speeds up the updating process. In order to validate and demonstrate the performance of the proposed electronic system as a tool for the development and implementation of control algorithms in vehicles, a series of tests was carried out on a test bench. Different traction control system (TCS) algorithms were implemented and the results were compared.
PB MDPI
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33126
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33126
LA eng
NO Pérez Fernández, J.; Alcázar Vargas, M.; Velasco García, J.M.; Cabrera Carrillo, J.A.; Castillo Aguilar, J.J. Low-Cost FPGA-Based Electronic Control Unit for Vehicle Control Systems. Sensors 2019, 19, 1834. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081834
NO This work was partly supported by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness under grant TRA2015-67920-R, partly by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport under grant FPU17/03161, and partly by the University of Málaga.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026