2025_programme: An FPGA-based parallel system for high resolution synthetic aperture sonar imaging



  • Day: June 19, Thursday
      Location / Time: D. CHLOE at 11:40-12:00
  • Last minutes changes: Cancelled
  • Session: 11. New methods and theories in underwater acoustic imaging
    Organiser(s): Pengfei Zhang, Peng Wang
    Chairperson(s): Pengfei Zhang, Peng Wang
  • Lecture: An FPGA-based parallel system for high resolution synthetic aperture sonar imaging
    Paper ID: 2280
    Author(s): Pengfei Zhang, Cheng Chi, Peng Wang, Shiping Chen, Lulu Ren, Yanbo Jiao
    Presenter: Pengfei Zhang
    Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) based on unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) is widely used in mine countermeasures, underwater mapping, and underwater archaeology. Due to the limited volume of UUVs, there are strict constraints on the volume and power consumption of sonar payloads. This paper presents a compact, low-power SAS parallel processing architecture implemented using FPGA. By employing pipeline techniques and utilizing on-chip shared memory , the FPGA-based system accomplishes real-time image reconstruction, data storage, and data forwarding on the Xilinx Zynq MPSOC. The power consumption of this system is less than 15 watts, and the imaging resolution is 2.5 centimeters.
  • Corresponding author: Mr Pengfei Zhang
    Affiliation: Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Country: China