IWR1843BOOST: industrial radar sensor evaluation module questions

Gerald

Part Number: IWR1843BOOST
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: IWR1843

Hi Experts,

May I ask for help? Our customer have a few questions:

• What is the resolution of the pointcloud of the Radar? I mean how many points can deliver within the field of view.
• It is still not clear for me whether it is plug and play under Ubuntu (Linux) over the usb and I can have easy access to the 3D pointcloud (x,y,z) so I can manipulate it under either ROS or (python or C++).

I hope you can help us. Thank you.

Kind regards,
Gerald

over 3 years ago

+1 Alexander Chan over 3 years ago

TI__Genius 9570 points

Hi Gerald,

Please see the following e2e post that addresses your first question about the resolution of the pointcloud for Radar.

https://e2e.ti.com/support/sensors-group/sensors/f/sensors-forum/1000415/awr1843boost-the-maximum-number-of-points-with-the-mmw-demo/3698241?tisearch=e2e-sitesearch&keymatch=iwr6843%252520increase%252520number%252520of%252520points#3698241

For the second question asking about Linux support, tools like the mmwave demo visualizer have a linux download option. You can go to the following link https://dev.ti.com/gallery/ and look for the mmWave Demo Visualizer to run out of box demos with the IWR1843 Boost.

The following files go over the output data structure for the out of box demo, you can parse the data to extract the specific values such as xyz.

<MMWAVE_SDK_INSTALL_PATH>\packages\ti\demo\xwr68xx\mmw\docs\doxygen\html\index.html

<MMWAVE_INDUSTRIAL_TOOLBOX_INSTALL_PATH>\labs\out_of_box_demo\common\docs\understanding_oob_uart_data.html

Thanks,

Alex Chan

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IWR1843BOOST: industrial radar sensor evaluation module questions