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AWR1843BOOST: Understanding the azimuth estimation

Part Number: AWR1843BOOST
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AWR1843

Hi, I am trying to understand how the azimuth angle of targets is calculated. I have taken the raw data from the AWR1843 and am applying MATLAB's FFT to the range-doppler response across 8 channels:

angle_fft = fftshift(fft(rd_fft, N_bins));

I then am plotting the magnitude response and all looks great. My question is how do you map the FFT bins to actual angle values? I tried a linear relationship using:

angle_step = 180/N;
angles = linspace(-90, 90 - angle_step, N);

But this seemed wrong. 

Any help in this area is greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

  • Hi Bradley,

    Let me point you to some useful documentation. Section "Direction of Arrival Estimation"

    mmwave_sdk_03_06_00_00-LTS/packages/ti/datapath/dpc/dpu/aoaproc/docs/doxygen/html/index.html

    Please give this a good read and let me know if you have further questions.

    Regards,

    Kaushik