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Radar Navigation Utilities

Radar Navigation Utilities

Owned by Charlotte Dakin-Norris, created
Last updated: Jun 08, 2023 by Glennan Carnie
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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 or tracker 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.

Contents

Using the Radar Navigation Utility Tool

Please follow the steps to use the tool:

  1. Download the RadarNavigationUtilities.exe tool from this page and save it to file.

  2. 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:

The first verb is a choice of tracker or radar, this governs if the radar or the onboard tracker are to receive the command.

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 here is one of the commands listed below, in this case to set the Gain to 1.0 and the Offset to -0.345,

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 setgainoffset -g 1.0 -o -0.345

Radar Utilities

Accelerometer Data

Get accelerometer information.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 accelerometer

Set Range Gain and Offset

This will apply range gain and/or offset settings.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 setgainoffset -g 1.0 -o -0.345

Options:
Use flag -g or --gain to select the Gain; the default is “0.999691”.
Use flag -o or --offset to specify the Offset; the default is “-0.319910”.
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 1

Options:
Use flag -t or --threshold to set the threshold; the default is “0”.
Use flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.

Set Bins and Min Bin to operate on

This will apply bins and/or min bin settings.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 setbinoperation -b 11 -m 52

Options:
Use flag -b or --bins to specify the Bins to operate on; the default is “10”.
Use flag -m or --minbin to select the minimum bin to operate on; the default is “50”.
Use flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.

Navigation Alarm Status

This will retrieve and report the six alarm states.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 navalarmdata

Create Default Navigation Configuration

This will create default navigation configuration in the file specified with -f.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 defaultconfig -f Configuration.json

Options:
Use flag -f or --file to specify the file configuration file to be created.
Use flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.

Upload Navigation Configuration

This will upload the navigation configuration from the file specified with -f.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 uploadconfig -f Configuration.json

Options:
Use flag -f or --file to specify the file configuration file to be uploaded.
Use flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.

Navigation Settings Data

This will retrieve the navigation settings.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 getnavsettings

Download Navigation Configuration

This will download the navigation configuration.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 downloadconfig -f Configuration.json

Options:
Use flag -f or --file to specify the file configuration file to be downloaded into.
Use flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.

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.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 setnavsettings -b 11 -m 49 -t 1 -p 12

Options:
Use flag -b or --bins to specify the Bins to operate on; the default is “10”.
Use flag -m or --minbin to select the minimum bin to operate on; the default is “50”.
Use flag -t or --threshold to specify the threshold; the default is “0”.
Use flag -p or --maxpeaks to select the maximum peaks to find; the default is “10”.
Use flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.

Set Buffer Mode

This will set the buffer mode.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 setbuffermode -m Average -l 11

Options:
Use Flag -m or --mode to specify the Buffer Mode, (Off, Average or Max); the default is “Off”.
Use Flag -l or --length to select the Buffer Length; the default is “10”.
Use Flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.

 

Start/Stop radar rotation

This option will stop radar rotation and disable the transmitter; or (re)start it.

RadarNavigationUtilities.exe -i 192.168.0.1 rotation --rotate false

Options:
Use Flag -r or --rotate to specify whether the radar should rotate; the default is “true”
Use Flag -? or -h or --help to show help and usage information.

Files

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ZIP Archive RadarNavigationUtilities-1.2.0.59.zip

Jul 05, 2022 by Benedict Dakin-Norris

PNG File image-20220705-065250.png

Jul 05, 2022 by Charlotte Dakin-Norris

ZIP Archive RadarNavigationUtilities-1.2.0.72.zip

Jun 08, 2023 by Glennan Carnie

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