MLAD

Machine Learning Accelerator Demonstrator


Machine Learning Accelerator Demonstrator (Foto: Benjamin Hülsen, DFKI GmbH)
Machine Learning Accelerator Demonstrator (Foto: Benjamin Hülsen, DFKI GmbH)
Contact person:
Dipl-Inf. Andreas Bresser

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Projectflyer MaLeBeCo German
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Technical Details

Size: 208 mm x 168 mm x 172 mm
Weight: 3 kg
Power supply:
230 V AC
Communication:
Gigabit Ethernet, USB, RS232

Organisational Details

Partner:

Airbus Defence and Space
Sponsor: ESA
Grant number: ESA Contract No. 4000135724/21/NL/AS
Application Field: Assistance- and Rehabilitation Systems
Agricultural Robotics
Electric Mobility
Logistics, Production and Consumer
SAR- & Security Robotics
Underwater Robotics
Space Robotics
Related Projects: SpaceClimber
A Semi-Autonomous Free-Climbing Robot for the Exploration of Crater Walls and Bottoms (07.2007- 11.2010)
iStruct
Intelligent Structures for Mobile Robots (05.2010- 08.2013)
LIMES
Learning Intelligent Motions for Kinematically Complex Robots for Exploration in Space (05.2012- 04.2016)
TransTerrA
Semi-autonomous cooperative exploration of planetary surfaces including the installation of a logistic chain as well as consideration of the terrestrial applicability of individual aspects (05.2013- 12.2017)
RIMRES
Reconfigurable Integrated Multi Robot Exploration System (09.2009- 12.2012)
ESA

System description

The ML accelerator demonstrator provides of a testbed for comparison and benchmarking of ML algorithms and processors for space application.

The overall ML accelerator demonstrator consists of a cPCI serial rack and an EGSE workstation. The cPCI serial rack consists again of the following components:

  • EKF SC5-FESTIVAL CompactPCI Serial CPU Card, EKF S42-MC Mezzanine Module, AAEON mPCI-E AI Accelerator (Myriad 2 2450) & Myriad X mPCI
  • ATSAMV71-XULT SAM V71 Xplained Ultra Evaluation Kit (SAMV71Q21)
  • cPCI Serial 7-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
  • EKF SRS-3201-BLUBOXX cPCI serial rack
  • ZynqBrain v2 (Zynq Ultrascale+ (XCZU4EG)) with cPCI serial carrier board

All communication is established via Gigabit Ethernet on the front panel of the cPCI serial rack. The backplane provides power supply to all boards except for the SAMV21Q21 MCU evaluation board. The MCU evaluation board is connected via USB to the CPU card. The evaluation board is powered via the USB connection and at the same time the USB connection is used for debugging.
 

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