IWR1642BOOST: wonder if the Radar can detect a tennis ball

1) are the balls moving? Can you provide the configuration you have tried so far?

2) do you need to count the chicks or just detect whether there are some chicks in the field but not accurately count?

Hi

1) the balls arent moving. i wanna detect static objects, the configurations ive tried so far are default one and the others that you can find in mmwave sdk 2.1 folder

2) yeah, exactly. it will be great if the board can count the chicks but i know its kinda impossible , so it doesnt have to be very accuracy, i just wanna see where they are gathered

thank you

Thank you for your response!

1) when i see the experiment documents that TI has done, small objects were detected with IWR1443. (here is the document i refer to : https://www.ti.com/lit/an/swra593/swra593.pdf?ts=1595557928482&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252F)

as far as i know, the board, IWR1642 is more accuracy and stronger than IWR1442. however i failed to detect small objects like i mentioned above, tennis ball and baseball with using IWR1642. im not thinking of getting a new board to detect static objects when it is technically possible to detect. So wonder what configuration and gui should i use ?

the configuration and GUI that i used are default ones of SDK 2.1 demo.

The 1642 is not necessarily "stronger or more accurate" than the 1443. There is more memory and DSP instead of HWA for processing. However in essentials the RF performance w

When you say the object was not able to be detected please provide the configuration you used to test for comment and review. If possible the data captures would also be good for debugging. In the application note you can see that the presence of the object is identified by looking for presence of a peak in the range profile. What data were you looking at to conclude that the object wasnt detected. How far was the object from the sensor and where was the sensor and objects placed?

Please provide more details 

Hi

here is the configuration i used.

% ***************************************************************
% Created for SDK ver:02.01
% Created using Visualizer ver:2.1.0.3
% Frequency:77
% Platform:xWR16xx
% Scene Classifier:best_range_res
% Azimuth Resolution(deg):15
% Range Resolution(m):0.044
% Maximum unambiguous Range(m):9.02
% Maximum Radial Velocity(m/s):1
% Radial velocity resolution(m/s):0.13
% Frame Duration(msec):100
% Range Detection Threshold (dB):15
% Doppler Detection Threshold (dB):15
% Range Peak Grouping:enabled
% Doppler Peak Grouping:enabled
% Static clutter removal:disabled
% ***************************************************************
sensorStop
flushCfg
dfeDataOutputMode 1
channelCfg 15 3 0
adcCfg 2 1
adcbufCfg -1 0 0 1 0
profileCfg 0 77 429 7 57.14 0 0 70 1 256 5209 0 0 30
chirpCfg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
chirpCfg 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
frameCfg 0 1 16 0 100 1 0
lowPower 0 1
guiMonitor -1 1 1 0 0 0 1
cfarCfg -1 0 0 8 4 4 0 5120
cfarCfg -1 1 0 4 2 3 0 5120
peakGrouping -1 1 1 1 1 255
multiObjBeamForming -1 1 0.5
clutterRemoval -1 0
calibDcRangeSig -1 0 -5 8 256
extendedMaxVelocity -1 0
bpmCfg -1 0 0 1
lvdsStreamCfg -1 0 0 0
nearFieldCfg -1 0 0 0
compRangeBiasAndRxChanPhase 0.0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
measureRangeBiasAndRxChanPhase 0 1.5 0.2
CQRxSatMonitor 0 3 5 123 0
CQSigImgMonitor 0 127 4
analogMonitor 1 1
sensorStart

the object i wanted to detect was right in front of the radar , maybe less than 30cm.

tennis ball nor baseball neither the board couldnt detect.(plus, i wrapped a tennis ball with cooking foil since mmwave SDK user guide says the radar wouldnt detect objects which are not reflective enough.)

thank you

Thank you very much !