This thread has been locked.

If you have a related question, please click the "Ask a related question" button in the top right corner. The newly created question will be automatically linked to this question.

IWR1642BOOST: Is it possible to do the material classification by using IWR1642 and DCA1000EVM?

Part Number: IWR1642BOOST
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: DCA1000EVM, IWR1642

If I can get the ADC data from IWR1642 and DCA1000EVM, how can I use it to do the material classification? Is it possible to get the information?

  • Hi,

    This may be possible depending on the materials which you want to classify, by looking at features such as returned signal strength and coarseness of the surface. You would almost certainly need to train some sort of Neural Net in order to capture the slight differences in data that you may not be able to perceive. In order to accomplish this, i'd recommend that you start by doing lots of raw ADC data captures using the DCA1000, and then trying to get a model working in one of the many publicly available frameworks before you attempt to move the model onto the device. Let me know if you have any further questions.

    Best Regards,
    Alec

  • Could you tell me some way to get the returned signal strength for the ADC data?

  • Hi,

    I would recommend you take a look at some of the example scripts scripts that are included in the mmWave Studio package will should provide more info on the raw ADC data format and some examples of how it can be processed.

    Best Regards,
    Alec