scholarly journals FPGA-Based Acceleration on Additive Manufacturing Defects Inspection

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2123
Author(s):  
Yawen Luo ◽  
Yuhua Chen
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Logic Gates ◽  
Manufacturing Defects ◽  
Defects Inspection ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Programmable Gate Arrays ◽  
Defects Classification

Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained increasing attention over the past years due to its fast prototype, easier modification, and possibility for complex internal texture devices when compared to traditional manufacture processing. However, potential internal defects are occurring during AM processes, and it requires real-time inspections to minimize the costs by either aborting the processing or repairing the defect. In order to perform the defects inspection, first the defects database NEU-DET is used for training. Then, a convolution neural network (CNN) is applied to perform defects classification. For real-time purposes, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are utilized for acceleration. A binarized neural network (BNN) is proposed to best fit the FPGA bit operations. Finally, for the image labeled with defects, the selective search and non-maximum algorithms are implemented to help locate the coordinates of defects. Experiments show that the BNN model on NEU-DET can achieve 97.9% accuracy in identifying whether the image is defective or defect-free. As for the image classification speed, the FPGA-based BNN module can process one image within 0.5 s. The BNN design is modularized and can be duplicated in parallel to fully utilize logic gates and memory resources in FPGAs. It is clear that the proposed FPGA-based BNN can perform real-time defects inspection with high accuracy and it can easily scale up to larger FPGA implementations.

scholarly journals Pattern Classification of Fabric Defects Using a Probabilistic Neural Network and Its Hardware Implementation using the Field Programmable Gate Array System

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (0) ◽  
pp. 42-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abul Hasnat ◽  
Anindya Ghosh ◽  
Amina Khatun ◽  
Santanu Halder
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Hardware Implementation ◽  
Probabilistic Neural Network ◽  
Clock Period ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Gate Arrays ◽  
Hardware System ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Programmable Gate Arrays

This study proposes a fabric defect classification system using a Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) and its hardware implementation using a Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) based system. The PNN classifier achieves an accuracy of 98 ± 2% for the test data set, whereas the FPGA based hardware system of the PNN classifier realises about 94±2% testing accuracy. The FPGA system operates as fast as 50.777 MHz, corresponding to a clock period of 19.694 ns.

scholarly journals A Quantized CNN-Based Microfluidic Lensless-Sensing Mobile Blood-Acquisition and Analysis System

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (23) ◽  
pp. 5103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liao ◽  
Yu ◽  
Tian ◽  
Li ◽  
Li
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Cell Segmentation ◽  
Floating Point ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Processing Efficiency ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Programmable Gate Arrays ◽  
Analysis System

This paper proposes a microfluidic lensless-sensing mobile blood-acquisition and analysis system. For a better tradeoff between accuracy and hardware cost, an integer-only quantization algorithm is proposed. Compared with floating-point inference, the proposed quantization algorithm makes a tradeoff that enables miniaturization while maintaining high accuracy. The quantization algorithm allows the convolutional neural network (CNN) inference to be carried out using integer arithmetic and facilitates hardware implementation with area and power savings. A dual configuration register group structure is also proposed to reduce the interval idle time between every neural network layer in order to improve the CNN processing efficiency. We designed a CNN accelerator architecture for the integer-only quantization algorithm and the dual configuration register group and implemented them in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). A microfluidic chip and mobile lensless sensing cell image acquisition device were also developed, then combined with the CNN accelerator to build the mobile lensless microfluidic blood image-acquisition and analysis prototype system. We applied the cell segmentation and cell classification CNN in the system and the classification accuracy reached 98.44%. Compared with the floating-point method, the accuracy dropped by only 0.56%, but the area decreased by 45%. When the system is implemented with the maximum frequency of 100 MHz in the FPGA, a classification speed of 17.9 frames per second (fps) can be obtained. The results show that the quantized CNN microfluidic lensless-sensing blood-acquisition and analysis system fully meets the needs of current portable medical devices, and is conducive to promoting the transformation of artificial intelligence (AI)-based blood cell acquisition and analysis work from large servers to portable cell analysis devices, facilitating rapid early analysis of diseases.

scholarly journals Real-Time Monte Carlo Optimization on FPGA for the Efficient and Reliable Message Chain Structure

Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heoncheol Lee ◽  
Kipyo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Monte Carlo Optimization ◽  
Central Processing ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Programmable Gate Arrays

This paper addresses the real-time optimization problem to find the most efficient and reliable message chain structure in data communications based on half-duplex command–response protocols such as MIL-STD-1553B communication systems. This paper proposes a real-time Monte Carlo optimization method implemented on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) which can not only be conducted very quickly but also avoid the conflicts with other tasks on a central processing unit (CPU). Evaluation results showed that the proposed method can consistently find the optimal message chain structure within a quite small and deterministic time, which was much faster than the conventional Monte Carlo optimization method on a CPU.

scholarly journals Real-time object tracking system based on field-programmable gate array and convolution neural network

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 172988141668270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congyi Lyu ◽  
Haoyao Chen ◽  
Xin Jiang ◽  
Peng Li ◽  
Yunhui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Object Tracking ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Field Programmable Gate Array ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Convolution Neural Network ◽  
Processing Unit ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
Gate Array

Vision-based object tracking has lots of applications in robotics, like surveillance, navigation, motion capturing, and so on. However, the existing object tracking systems still suffer from the challenging problem of high computation consumption in the image processing algorithms. The problem can prevent current systems from being used in many robotic applications which have limitations of payload and power, for example, micro air vehicles. In these applications, the central processing unit- or graphics processing unit-based computers are not good choices due to the high weight and power consumption. To address the problem, this article proposed a real-time object tracking system based on field-programmable gate array, convolution neural network, and visual servo technology. The time-consuming image processing algorithms, such as distortion correction, color space convertor, and Sobel edge, Harris corner features detector, and convolution neural network were redesigned using the programmable gates in field-programmable gate array. Based on the field-programmable gate array-based image processing, an image-based visual servo controller was designed to drive a two degree of freedom manipulator to track the target in real time. Finally, experiments on the proposed system were performed to illustrate the effectiveness of the real-time object tracking system.

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