Optimization of a line detection algorithm for autonomous vehicles on a RISC-V with accelerator
Journal of Computer Science and Technology(2022)
摘要
In recent years, autonomous vehicles have attracted the attention of many research groups, both in academia and business, including researchers from leading com- panies such as Google, Uber and Tesla. This type of vehicles are equipped with systems that are subject to very strict requirements, essentially aimed at per- forming safe operations –both for potential passengers and pedestrians– as well as carrying out the process- ing needed for decision making in real time. In many instances, general-purpose processors alone cannot ensure that these safety, reliability and real-time re- quirements are met, so it is common to implement heterogeneous systems by including accelerators. This paper explores the acceleration of a line detection ap- plication in the autonomous car environment using a heterogeneous system consisting of a general-purpose RISC-V core and a domain-specific accelerator. In par- ticular, the application is analyzed to identify the most computationally intensive parts of the code and it is adapted accordingly for more efficient processing. Fur- thermore, the code is executed on the aforementioned hardware platform to verify that the execution effec- tively meets the existing requirements in autonomous vehicles, experiencing a 3.7x speedup with respect to running without accelerator.
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autonomous vehicles,image processing,risc-v,firesim,matrix accelerator
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