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PreSenseRadar / OpenRadar

An open source library for interacting with and processing radar data, specialized for MIMO mmWave radars
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Can the iwr1642boost device generate 3D point cloud ？ #27

Open q5390498 opened 3 years ago

q5390498 commented 3 years ago

I am a newbie in the radar domain, but I have a project that need use the mmwave radar to generate 3D piont cloud. so I have a problem, can the iwr1642boost generate 3D point cloud? if it support, can I use this repo get the 3D point colud? thank you very much.

edwin-pan commented 3 years ago

The IWR1642BOOST can generate detection points in 3D space, if that is what you are looking for. Note that all the detections will have 0 elevation. With the micro-USB that came with the module you can use this demo visualizer to see what kind of returns you can get. This repo can also generate those 3D detection points, though you'll need a DCA1000 EVM to stream the raw data for the OpenRadar processing functions.

I mentioned earlier that the IWR1642BOOST doesn't capture elevation information, so all your detections will be mapped onto a 2D plane (looking top-down). If you need elevation information, you should look into the IWR1843BOOST.