Introduction
The Navtech IA Radar SDK provides a simple interface to communicate with the IA sensor. The SDK provides the Radar sensors. As well as ROS and ROS2 examples, the SDK includes source code for C++ and , a simple .NET DLL that can easily be integrated into applications running on Windows and Linux.
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Communication between the sensor and the software is over Ethernet and utilises a proprietary binary communication protocol called Colossus Network Protocol. The SDK abstracts this protocol to avoid having to develop the low level socket and messaging processing code. However you can develop your own interface without the SDK if required and the protocol documentation will provide all the information you need to achieve this.
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Once the data has been inflated the record now matches the format of data sent from the radar, the record structure is identical, but now the Type field will represent the message type from the Colossus Network Protocol.
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When playing back data it is up to the software to correctly buffer and then send the data at the expected packet rate of the radar |
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