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mmWave Gester Recognition viable distance

Part Number: mmWave

Hi,

I have an application where I would like to detect hand gestures from about 20cm down to 0cm or surface touching. The resolution does not need to be highly precise - perhaps a few mm's worst case. Will the mmWave gesture recognition handle this range? I can't seem to find an answer.

Thanks,

Kevin

  • Hi Kevin, 

    Are you referring to the Gesture with Machine Learning Demo for IWR6843 from the Radar Toolbox? If so, this demo is currently configured to detect hand gestures from about ~0.05 m to ~0.30 m. The reason that the minimum range is set to ~0.05m is to ignore any potential coupling effect from the TX/RX antennas. 

    You can try to remove this lower limit by setting the RANGE_BIN_START in gesture.h to 0 (as shown below) then rebuilding the demo. 

    #define RANGE_BIN_START          0

    Best Regards,

    Josh