Development of Programmable Lighting Environment Control System

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12292
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Design science
• Research Institution: Osaka University (2016); Nara Institute of Science and Technology (2015)
• Principal Investigator: Minami Yuki 大阪大学, 工学研究科, 講師 (00548076)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 光環境 / 照度分布 / 自律分散制御

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we focused on programmable lighting control systems composed of multiple LED lights and multiple windows whose light transmission characteristics can be changed, and formulated the control problem which finds on/off modes of lights and windows such that actual illuminance distribution is similar to a desired one. We first proposed a control algorithm for controlling pan-tilt angles and on/off modes of LED lights. Then we presented a distributed control method which determines on/off modes of lights and windows, and verified its effectiveness by an experimental system we developed. Finally, we formulated a navigation problem of mobile robots by controlling illuminance distributions, and developed a generation method of illuminance distribution achieving that a robot reaches to a given target point rapidly.

Free Research Field

制御工学