OpenRadar: A Toolkit for Prototyping mmWave Radar Applications
This toolkit addresses the need for modular and accessible development in radar applications, particularly for combining radar with AI, though it is incremental as it builds on existing radar technology.
The paper tackles the problem of hardware-specific radar signal processing by introducing OpenRadar, a toolkit that enables sensor-agnostic prototyping and benchmarking, released as an open-source package.
Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) radar sensors are gaining popularity for their robust sensing and increasing imaging capabilities. However, current radar signal processing is hardware specific, which makes it impossible to build sensor agnostic solutions. OpenRadar serves as an interface to prototype, research, and benchmark solutions in a modular manner. This enables creating software processing stacks in a way that has not yet been extensively explored. In the wake of increased AI adoption, OpenRadar can accelerate the growth of the combined fields of radar and AI. The OpenRadar API was released on Oct 2, 2019 as an open-source package under the Apache 2.0 license. The codebase exists at https://github.com/presenseradar/openradar.