Radar sensor Forum Discussions
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We are excited to announce the release of Radar Development Kit 3.5.1, which is now available for download from the Infineon Developer Center.
This release introduces a range of new features, improvements, and fixes, and includes the following components:
- Radar SDK v3.5.0
- Radar Fusion GUI v3.5.4
- ifxdaq v4.0.0
- RBB Firmware v2.6.0
Please see below for details on the new features and changes in this release.
New Features:
Radar SDK v3.5.0
- General API for Controlling FMCW Radar Devices
Radar SDK 3.5 introduces a new and versatile general API for controlling FMCW radar devices. The API can accommodate all FMCW-based radar sensors, and it includes a new configuration structure that supports multiple chirp configurations within a single frame. - Revised Continuous Wave API
The Continuous Wave API has been revised and is now structured similarly to the FMCW API. To create a Continuous Wave instance, it is no longer necessary to create a device instance and pass it as a parameter. The function call of ifx_cw_create returns a Continuous Wave instance, and the configurations for the ADC and baseband have also been restructured. The previous configuration (ifx_Avian_Config_t) no longer exists.
Radar Fusion GUI v3.5.4
- Support for BGT60UTR11AIP FMCW 60GHz Sensor
Radar Fusion GUI now supports the BGT66UTR11AIP FMCW 60GHz sensor. This includes sensor configuration, raw ADC data acquisition, and presence sensing application. - Expert Mode
An Expert Mode has been introduced for 60GHz FMCW sensors in the Radar Fusion GUI. This mode includes a Timing Model view for the given frame configuration, multiple chirp configurations within a frame, a Difference Deviation plot designed to characterize inter-chirp performance, and a power consumption value display at the status bar for Avian sensors. - Dummy Sensor Support
Dummy sensor support is now available for compatible sensors. Users can experiment with sensor configurations and import/export these configurations to the register file, and visualization of timing and power modes for configured chirps. - Recording of Raw ADC Data
The recording of raw ADC data format now standardizes to the ifxdaq recording format for FMCW 60GHz Sensors. Raw data is stored in standard .npy format, and meta-data and sensor configs are stored in a separate JSON format. The GUI offers playback of legacy recordings, but any recording from the GUI will be in the new format. A converter in the Recording menu is available to convert legacy recordings to the new format. - Register Export and Import
Register export and import options have been included for FMCW devices. - Presence Sensing App Upgrade
The presence sensing app has undergone an upgrade with a more robust algorithm. New additions include a separate visualization dedicated to presence sensing, and display of the range of strongest targets alongside presence information. - Range Spectrogram and Doppler Spectrogram Plots
New range spectrogram and Doppler spectrogram plots have been added. - Clipping Detection
A display indicating clipping detection has been integrated into the status bar. This alert will trigger if the ADC time domain signal exceeds the limits of [-1, +1].
Changes:
- The convention for displaying approaching targets on the positive side of the velocity axis of the range Doppler map has been aligned.
- The range and angle measurement algorithm has been enhanced to achieve detection ranges of over 10 meters.
- Simultaneous visualization of multiple Rx antennas has been added to the Range Doppler Map plot.
- Fix the import of registers in a dummy device mode (reported in v3.5.3)
- Fix the allowed RF frequency range for supported FMCW sensors (reported in v3.5.3)
Thank you for choosing Radar Development Kit!
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we are happy to announce you the launch of our next generation of XENSIV™ Radar 24GHz DEMO kits with Sense2GoL Pulse and Distance2GoL.
Following the said launch, please be informed that these XENSIV™ Radar 24GHz demo kits are therefore discontinued: Sense2Go, Sense2GoL, Distance2Go and Position2Go.
We are transferring our support capabilities towards the new kits. For the discontinued kits, we will reduce and eventually stop our support including telephone, chat, community support forum, or e-mail inquiries. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Please find all needed information on all our 24GHz radar products and kits on www.infineon.com/24ghz.
Sincerely,
Your Infineon team
Hi,
I got my BGT60TR13C development kit today. I was able to make it run via Radar Fusion GUI. The device blinks and collects data in .npy file as well.
However, I cannot make the python wrappers work. It says "ifxradarsdk.common.exceptions.ErrorNoDevice: no compatible device found (IFX_ERROR_NO_DEVICE)". Any python example I try to run fails to detect the device.
I installed ifxdaq and ifxradar packages seems to be installed fine as well:
I specifically want to be able to use ifxdaq module to acquire raw data in real-time. Any ideas what might be going wrong here? Thanks in advance.
Best,
Emre
Show LessHi, I have a BGT60LTR11AIP Radar Shield2Go board and try to read the data by SPI of PSOC4 MCU, but I can not get it.
I have set the board in SPI mode and use the official library code.
Attached is the project, could anybody give me some help?
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Show LessHello,
We have observed some abnormal behaviors with Rx 1 under below configuration. (see the different behaviors between Rx1 and Rx3 in the attachments). For some reason, Rx1 doesn't show high energy of the target object in the range FFT heatmap plot. If if_gain_dB is decreased to 33 dB from 60 dB, the issue is gone. Do you have any idea what has caused this abnormal behavior?
Hello!
I am approaching to form range-angle maps from BGT60ATR24C radar. I read <.npy> file and obtain radar signal array with 8 indeces of virtual antennas [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. What indeces shoud I take and send to beam forming alghoritm to form azimuth dimention of radar image. And what indeces for elevation dimention?
Hi.
I'm using KIT CSK BGT60TR13C.
I want to get velocity data from this radar, so I use "xensiv_bgt60trxx_get_fifo_data()" to get FIFO data and calculate velocity myself. However, I can only get the FIFO data sometimes.
I don't know how to activate this radar sensor from scratch, so I'm using the "Human presence detection" sample program, but using this, FIFO data is only sent when this program detects humans. I want to get FIFO data even if no movement or human is detected.
Is this possible? If so, please tell me how to do this.
Thank you.
Show LessHello,
The range-angle-map function of the BGT60TR13C is currently being used, but it was discovered that the image output by the program is for the object with the most energy. In this regard, is the object with the most energy the object closest to the radar, or is it the object with the largest volume?
Currently, the function I want to verify is that the person is standing far from the radar, but there is a very small object in the vicinity of the radar that is moving repeatedly. I hope the radar can capture the nearest moving object and reflect it in images or data. I wonder if this function can be realized.
Look forward to hearing from you
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Show LessHi,
How to run C-based D2GL_basics example in Linux.
Thank you