So I have a use case that I will try to explore with IWR6843ISK. I would like to see if it's possible to detect an object passing infront of the radar, similar to the Area Scanner Lab or the Traffic Monitor. There are some differences as the object will be pointed more upwards towards the sky, the antenna/device positioned so that 120 fov is oriented more vertically and the 30 degrees of elevation is oriented horizontally. In this position the radar will monitor a swath of the sky vertically so that any object in the air flying through the air horizontally will be briefly tracked through the narrow 30 degrees of elevation oriented horizontally. Conceptually you would have a left/right side and be interested in primarily in when the object crosses exactly in the middle, kind of like a finish line but oriented up (like 0 degree line in area scanner.)
Usually there will only be one object tracked, but in some instances this object will move rather fast, say upwards of 160 kph. The range of such object is less than 20 meters.
I have read a lot of the documentation, including the Traffic monitor case study and the Project/Lab user guides.
Here are my questions:
1. Which Lab would more appropriately approximate my use case, the area scanner or the Traffic Monitor?
2. Can the IWR6843ISK with antennas oriented vertically track a fast moving object over the narrow 30 degree fov?
3.How quickly and accurately can I detect the crossing? For example if it were a normal camera that worked at 60 frames per second, additional processing time of 100ms and the object's velocity was 100 mph, would be about 17 feet passed the crossing before the crossing was detected. What would it be to total latency for the IWR6843ISK?
My idea was just to start with the labs and then do my own parsing and processing with python. Is this a good start? Will either lab suffice as means to parse the data or is this use case different enough that it will benefit from very different radar parameters and programming.
Thank you.
