Implementation and verification of energy efficient software for ADCS

The Delfi-n3Xt was the second nanosatellite developed at the Delft University of Technology, and launched in 2013. Its successor Delfi-PQ is expected to be launched in first half of 2019. The Attitude of a satellite can be referred to as its orientation in space with respect to inertial reference frame. The Delfi-n3Xt was the first satellite...

MATLAB to Fixed-Point C Code Generation and its Application to Real-Time Heartbeat Detection

MATLAB is a popular very-high-level-language used for visualizing, prototyping and perform- ing design-space exploration of algorithms. But, this flexibility comes at the price of high memory consumption and slow execution times, making it unsuitable for use in an embedded system. The possibility of using Embedded MATLAB (EML), a small subset of...

System performance analysis and fixed-point architecture of a gradient-based optical flow algorithm

Optical flow algorithms present a way for computers to estimate motion from the real world. Applications like cloud motion, surveillance and robot eyesight are examples of this. The focus of existing research is mainly on either fast, but poor solutions, or slow but good solutions. In this thesis an approach to improve performance through...