Radar Navigation Utilities
- John Marshall
Introduction
The Radar Navigation Utilities tool is a stand alone program, which will allow an engineer to access accelerometer, navigation and settings data from a radar and to upload and download navigation configuration. The tool can also be used to change radar range, gain, offset, threshold, bins, min bins, max peak and buffer mode settings.
Note - Care should be taken when using this tool to adjust the settings on a radar that is being used with the built-in SafeGuard anticollision functions, as the settings applied with this tool will overwrite the equivalent settings used within the SafeGuard system.
Contents
- 1 Using the Radar Navigation Utility Tool
- 2 Command Line Options
- 2.1 Accelerometer Data
- 2.2 Set Range Gain and Offset
- 2.3 Set Threshold
- 2.4 Set Bins and Min Bin to operate on
- 2.5 Navigation Settings Data
- 2.6 Set Bins and Min Bin, Threshold and Max Peaks to operate on
- 2.7 Set Buffer Mode
- 2.8 Safeguard Alarm Data
- 2.9 Create Default Safeguard Configuration
- 2.10 Upload Safeguard Configuration
- 2.11 Download Safeguard Configuration
- 3 Files
Using the Radar Navigation Utility Tool
Please follow the steps to use the tool:
Download the RadarNavigationUtilities.exe tool from this page and save it to file.
Open a windows Terminal and change directory to the directory containing the RadarNavigationUtilities.exe.
Command Line Options
The CLI command line options are structured around verbs as an example:
This first verb has several options:
Use flag -i or --ipaddress to specify the Radar IP Address; the default is “192.168.0.1”.
Use flag -p or --port to select the Radar Port; the default is “6317”.
Use flag --version to show the version information.
Use flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.
The second verb is one of the commands listed below:
Accelerometer Data
Get accelerometer information (radar mounting pitch and tilt values) - only for radars with internal accelerometer fitted.
RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 accelerometerSet Range Gain and Offset
This will apply range gain and/or offset settings.
RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 setgainoffset -g 1 -o -0.345Options:
Use flag -g or --gain to select the Gain; the default is “1”.
Use flag -o or --offset to specify the Offset; the default is “-0.345”.
Use flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.
Set Threshold
This will set the threshold.
RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 setthreshold -t 1Set Bins and Min Bin to operate on
This will apply bins and/or min bin settings.
Navigation Settings Data
This will retrieve the navigation settings.
Set Bins and Min Bin, Threshold and Max Peaks to operate on
This will apply the bins, minimum bin, threshold and/or maximum peak settings.
Set Buffer Mode
This will set the buffer mode.
Safeguard Alarm Data
This will retrieve navigation alarm data - the six alarm states from the SafeGuard system, if enabled.
Create Default Safeguard Configuration
This will create default navigation configuration in the file specified with -f.
Upload Safeguard Configuration
This will upload the navigation configuration from the file specified with -f.
Download Safeguard Configuration
This will download the navigation configuration.