This project was undertaken to support the WPI Precision Personal Locator (PPL) project by prototyping an FPGA implementation of a Kalman Filter to perform inertial system signal processing. Currently, the Kalman Filter operations are carried out in software on a single core CPU. This project converts the software design into a parallel processsing hardware. A simplified Kalman Filter was designed and implemented within the FPGA and tested with an ADC and DAC which were integrated into the design to support analog signals at the input and output of the system. The successful demonstration of this system shows the viability of using an FPGA based Kalman Filter to perform the signal processing for the PPL system in real time.

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Creator

• Pizzini, Eduardo Lago
• Thomas, Daniel Brian

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042512-174736

Advisor

• Duckworth, R. James
• Cyganski, David

Year

• 2012

Date created

• 2012-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright