Connect cameras and sensors

You can connect various sensors and cameras to your R-Car H3 Starter board to use live video feeds and live sensor data rather than prerecorded video and sensor data.

You can also connect cameras (USB and GigE Vision compliant) and sensors (GPS, IMU, lidar, and radar) to run with the image. Here's what supported with this reference image. After you connect your sensors to the R-Car H3 Starter board, you must make configuration changes. Depending on the sensors you connect, custom SLM and sensor configuration files may need to be created. For more information, see the “Configure sensors and cameras on the reference image” section. in this chapter.

Connecting AMI MINICube RDACM21 cameras and board to the ADAS View Solution Kit

You can connect RDACM21 cameras to your board. To do so, you require the ADAS View Solution Kit from Renesas as it has the required serializers to connect the cameras to the board. Follow the instructions provided with the kit to connect board to the skateboard and cameras. In addition, you can also connect USB and GigE Vision compliant cameras, as well as sensors to the board. The following sections describe the necessary changes you need to make based on the camera configuration you choose:

To use four AMI MINICube RDACM21 cameras using the ADAS View Solution Kit: Here's what four cameras looks like using the ADAS View Solution Kit. After you connect your board to the kit, you test it running various applications.

Figure 1. R-Car H3 Starter board connected to up to four to eight cameras

Configure USB cameras

You can connect USB cameras to the board. It's important to note that the R-Car H3 Starter board supports only USB 2.0. For this reason, the video resolution and speed that's supported is 720p at 10 fps. If you require more than one camera, you can use a USB 2.0 hub.

Configure GigE cameras

You can connect GigE cameras (also known as network cameras and IP cameras) that are compliant to the GigE Vision standard. The camera doesn't need to be connected to your target, but it must be connected to the same network as your target.

Configure lidar, GPS, IMU, and radar

You can connect lidar, radar, IMU, GPS, and radar to the R-Car H3 Starter board using and CAN-to-USB adapter or using USB directly. You may need to use a USB hub to extend the number of USB ports to connect multiple sensors to the R-Car H3 Starter board.