I have a Continental ARS330 automotive radar that is commonly used for front-facing vehicle/object detection in automatic cruise control systems. It uses the CAN protocol at 500KHz. I'm interested in the list of targets/objects that it can output. A group of college students used an older one for a project but their report doesn't share too much information on the actual wiring or code they used. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=bmedsp They also used an older model that has fewer pins. I want to be able to receive this target data (hard), process it (easy), and output signals to servos (easy).
- Can the Arduino with the CAN bus shield do that, or is the Arduino too slow to be able to process the list of targets before receiving the next list of targets?
- Do I even need the Can bus shield since I won't be using many of its features?
- Where can I find example code and example wiring for a project like this (since the report doesn't provide enough info)?