Automated synthesis of an FPGA-based controller for vehicle lateral control

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of an integrated methodology, which was introduced by the authors in previous publications. The purpose of the methodology is to facilitate the automated implementation of FPGA-based industrial controllers using modern high-level synthesis tools. In previous papers the methodology was used for rather simple applications. Here it is applied in a more demanding problem, namely the on-line optimization of a PID controller for the automatic lateral control of a highway vehicle.