Research Article

Robotic Mapping and Localization with Real-Time Dense Stereo on Reconfigurable Hardware

Table 1

Resource utilization for system implementation.

Image resolutionLogic elementsMemory bits

Stereo processor/33 disparity levels320 × 2401000074048
49 disparity levels640 × 48014700173632
65 disparity levels640 × 48021500270240
Feature detector640 × 4804,00010,000
Nios II processor + Cashe2,000120,000
USB 2.0 controller + EP buffer252080,000
Other controllers400030,000
Total resources 49 disparity levels640 × 48027220413632