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IWR1843BOOST: To detect mm-sized objects going at very high speeds

Part Number: IWR1843BOOST

Hi Experts,

May we ask for your assistance on this concern below from our customer:

"My name is Yosri. I am a student working on project to (currently) use the IWR1843BOOST mmWave Sensor as a means to detect mm-sized objects going at very high speeds. To be quite frank, I'm not exactly in my comfort zone, working on radars, neither on a Physics nor technical standpoint, but I can learn. Point is, I'm sorry in advance if my questions seem trivial, I ask of you to be comprehensive.

Alright, so, my questions for you are the following :

1) Since I need to be tuning the radar for highspeeds projectiles, I need to be able to augment the max radial velocity readable on the device. How should I go around to do this ?
I've been playing with the OOB Demo and the mmWave Visualizer but I've found no "easy" way of upping the max velocity- I suppose it is hard coded in images I've got to flash on the device, or maybe has it got something to do with the profiles in the mmwave sdk packages ? I have no idea exactly, which is why I am asking for help.
I've also found another visualizer and hoped to be able to move those parameters around but I can't seem to find how for the time being.


2) I need to be able to record the data of what the radar captures, because as of now, if I wanted to have knowledge of the radar capturing objects moving at higher speeds, the online mmWave Visualizer will not have enough framerate to display the results of my current experiments.
I think for this I have to use a DCA1000 ? I have one, and I'm still learning on how to use it- I might need to wait for more equipment to run it though.
From what I've seen, the DCA1000 gives me binary files for the recorded data right ? I've seen one way of plotting the results thanks to this binary, through mmWave Studio. What other ways could we exploit this binary to display readable recorded data ?

 

These are my two main focuses for the moment, but I suppose I will have to learn more about how the chirps affect the data received and how it is processed in order to find the right configurations for our use.

I thank you for the time you've granted me reading me and hopefully answering. Even sending me helpful resources on how to do what I've asked help on would be greatly appreciated. I do understand you are busy and I hope you can still manage to help me nonetheless. It would really be great for me to understand the solutions to my problems."

I hope you can help us. Thank you.

Best regards,
Gerald