Fast prototyping platform for navigation systems with sensors fusion

The increasing demand for robust and precise navigation systems has brought-up new sensor fusion algorithms that improve system performance of such systems. However, these algorithms present two challenges: they are computation-intensive and require hybrid but tightly coupled processing resources. In this paper, we present a flexible fast prototyping platform for navigation systems with advanced sensors fusion. The platform is a complete hardware/software framework including FPGA hardware accelerators for some compute intensive parts of image and GNSS signal processing. It can be used by system designers to implement and test advanced, tightly coupled sensor fusion algorithms in representative environments while fully respecting real-time.