DCA1000EVM: point cloud data

Chong Yu

Part Number: DCA1000EVM
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: IWR1843

Hi,

My customer need assistance.

I purchased IWR 1843 BOOST and DCA 1000 EVM from your company, I want to use these two devices for human motion recognition. Now the problem that puzzles me is how to collect point cloud data with these two devices? I want to collect point cloud data in the following format:

Please help. Thanks.

over 2 years ago

0 Brennan Hartigan over 2 years ago

TI__Expert 4620 points

Hello,

Point cloud data cannot be collected using the DCA1000. May I ask what material/collateral you saw or used that led you to this decision?

Regards,

Brennan

0 Chong Yu over 2 years ago in reply to Brennan Hartigan

TI__Intellectual 1435 points

Hi Hartigan,

My customer replied:

RadHAR (acm.org) 以及 GitHub - nesl/RadHAR: Human Activity Recognition from Point Clouds Generated through a Millimeter-wave Radar

Please help. Thanks.

0 Brennan Hartigan over 2 years ago in reply to Chong Yu

TI__Expert 4620 points

Hello Chong,

The link you have provided describes data collection using the ROS (Robot Operating System) packages developed for TI mmWave sensor. For more info on this, please see:

https://dev.ti.com/tirex/explore/node?node=AN-1gXp4Kn1RRFC9mOFTZQ__VLyFKFf__LATEST

For your application, I would highly suggest starting here to assist in your development:

https://www.ti.com/design-resources/embedded-development/industrial-mmwave-radar-sensors.html

I would also recommend looking at the mmWave Industrial Toolbox labs to see if any of the existing applications can help you with your development:

https://dev.ti.com/tirex/explore/node?node=AJoMGA2ID9pCPWEKPi16wg__VLyFKFf__LATEST

Regards,

Brennan

0 Chong Yu over 2 years ago in reply to Brennan Hartigan

TI__Intellectual 1435 points

Hi Hartigan,

My customer replied:

Hello, thank you very much for answering my question.I saw from the 'TI mmWave ROS Driver User's Guide - Version 2.2' that ROS supports iwr1843 point cloud visualization and saving point cloud data.

I installed the system and enabled it to run,Although I can make it work and display it,

However, the data I collected cannot display information such as intensity, range, bearing and doppler_bin.

I try to modify the source code to solve the range problem. However, other information cannot be displayed normally.I found on the Internet that the reason is that the SDK version used by iwr1843 is 3. X,however, the 2. X SDK does not support iwr1843 .So,how can I solve the problem of incorrect display of these information.I modified ti_ mmwave_ Rospkg source code. I think I need professional technical support to solve this problem.

Please help. Thanks.

0 Chong Yu over 2 years ago in reply to Chong Yu

TI__Intellectual 1435 points

I don't know why the two pictures cannot be shown. But I succeed to zoom in to check them.

0 Brennan Hartigan over 2 years ago in reply to Chong Yu

TI__Expert 4620 points

Chong,

You are correct in that SDK 2.X does not support IWR1843. Why do you need the doppler bin, bearing, and intensity? Is this important in your application? You can also calculate these values using basic geometry and math if they are essential to your application.

Regards,

Brennan

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