AWR1642BOOST: Start the radar sensor upon boot

Samuel Low29

Part Number: AWR1642BOOST
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: AWR1642

Hi! I am using the AWR1642 BOOST to perform point cloud scanning for a drone through ROS.

I am just wondering if there is a way for me to start the radar scanning upon powering on? I am thinking of having a preset configuration file and then just launch it in the device upon boot? So the moment I switch it on, it should already begin scanning. Right now, everytime I switch it on, there are 2 LEDs (one orange, one red), and I have to hook up my microcomputer (I am using ODROID on Ubuntu Linux, 16.04) to a screen and key in the ROS commands to launch the radar sensor, then I would see the 3 LEDs switch on. Ideally, I would like to just have it all start up automatically the moment I power it on, is there a way to do this?

Thank you!

Cheers

Sam

over 7 years ago

0 Samuel Low29 over 7 years ago

Prodigy 200 points

To be more specific, I am currently using the demo image which is the binary file found in here:

"<home directory>/mmwave_sdk_<ver>\ti\demo\xwr16xx\mmw\xwr16xx_mmw_demo.bin"

It is the image which allows users to flexibly upload the configuration either through the Demo Visualiser, or by manually editting to .cfg files in the ti_mmwave_rospkg folder. However, once I have found a good configuration I need for my setup, I would like to have it permanently loaded upon boot in the AWR1642 device.

Thank you!