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The term ”intelligent lighting system” refers to a system Control signal Intelligent lighting
Luminaire
where multiple lighting fixtures are connected to a network,
and users needs are met by cooperation of the various light- Luminance
䊶Sensor ID
2.1.1 Autonomous distributed control 䊶Illuminance information
䊶Constrained
In the intelligent lighting system, there is no element with Figure 1. Configuration of the intelligent lighting system
control over the entire system. Illuminance at each location
is controlled by having each light perform learning opera-
tion. There is no central control unit, so the system has high
robustness against malfunction, and high reliability can be
achieved even in large-scale buildings. 2. Each illuminance sensor detects the current illumi-
nance.
2.1.2 Achieving autonomous lighting control 3. Each illuminance sensor sends its target illuminance
and current illuminance to the network.
In today’s illumination systems, only the limited lighting
pattern can be realized due to the wiring pattern. However, 4. Each intelligent lighting fixture connected to the net-
with the intelligent lighting system, it is possible to realize work takes in the amount of power used, and the target
an arbitrary lighting pattern which is not dependent on the illuminance and current illuminance of each illumi-
wiring of lights. Also this intelligent lighting system, the nance sensor.
user simply sets the target illuminance, and the system can
5. The learning device of each intelligent lighting fixture
automatically determine the necessary luminance, without
controls luminance based on the illumination control
making the user aware of the location of lights, and thus
algorithm proposed in this research, using the amount
can provide the appropriate illuminance to the appropriate
of power, and the current and target illuminance of
location.
each sensor.
2.2 Configuration of the intelligent lighting 6. By repeating Steps 2 to 5, the system constantly senses
system environmental information, and provides control so
that goal is satisfied.
The intelligent lighting system is configured by connecting
Using the above process, each inteligent light can au-
multiple intelligent lighting fixtures and multiple movable
tonomously performs lighting control to satisfy goals and
illumination sensors and power meters to a network. The
illuminance constraints. By constantly sensing environ-
term ”intelligent lighting fixture” means lighting which has
mental information, the system can respond to addition or
a controller called a learning device. This makes it pos-
malfunction of lights, and addition and movement of illu-
sible for each individual lighting fixture to operate au-
minance sensors.
tonomously. Fig.1 shows the configuration of an intelligent
lighting system.
3 The configuration of autonomous dis-
2.3 Intelligent lighting system control tributed experiment system
The intelligent lighting system is controlled using the au- The autonomous distributed experiment system, is actu-
tonomous distributed method. Each intelligent lighting fix- ally built based on intelligent lighting systems concept.
ture controls illuminance by autonomously adjusting lumi- The configuration of the experiment system is 15 inverter
nance. The control process is described below. controllable fluorescent lights, 15 lighting control devices,
multiple movable illuminance sensors. Inverter control is
1. Initialize the intelligent lighting system, provide the a technology wherein luminance is adjusted by arbitrarily
goal of ”minimizing the amount of power used” to the varying the duty ratio of a digital waveform. All of these
learning devices, and provide the constraint of ”setting hardware are connected to one network. In this experiment
the illuminance of each illuminance sensor at or above system the power meter, which measures the amount of
a certain value” to the illuminance sensors. used electricity is not included. The sum of each light’s
luminance intensity is substituted as the amount of used 4. An appropriate neighborhood range is determined
electricity. In addition, in this experiment system there is based on the correlation.
no central control element with controls over the entire sys-
tem. Each light has it’s own lighting control device so this 5. Next luminance is generated randomly with in the
can achieve the autonomous distributed control system. neighborhood, which is determined at (4), and turn on
each light with the new luminance.
4 Adaptive Neighborhood Algorithm using 6. Get new information of illuminance sensors and new
amount of electricity used.
Correlation Coefficient
7. Calculate the correlation from the new illuminance
In this chapter, new algorithm that can search effectively by and new luminance.
estimating the distance of the light and the sensor from the
correlation between luminance and illuminance intensity, 8. Calculate the objective function from new illuminance
is proposed. and amount of electricity using.
Figure 2. Adaptive Neighborhood Algorithm using Corre- 4.2.2 About a correlation coefficient and a
lation Coefficient distance
Fig.3 shows the example of the distance of lights and il-
The control process of this algorithm is shown below. luminance sensors. For light 1, the correlation with sen-
sor A becomes high and the correlation with sensor B is
1. Perform initialization and set the initial parameters. low . For light 2, the correlation with sensor A becomes
low, and the correlation with sensor B is high. For light
2. Switch on all fluorescent lights at their initial lumi- 3, the correlation with both sensors becomes low because
nance. they are at the distant position from light 3. If the distance
can be estimated by the correlation correctly, lights which
3. Calculate the objective function from information of does not have sensor in near distance should lower the lu-
each illuminance sensors (Sensor ID, current illumi- minance. And lights which have sensors in near distance
nance, and target illuminance) and amount of electric- should change the luminance to appropriate luminance in-
ity used. tensity to satisfy the target illuminance.
Network
Figure 3. Position between lamps and sensors 2. If all the correlation coefficients are less than the
threshold, neighborhood range A is selected. If more
than one correlation coefficient is higher than the
threshold and the values of all the sensors current illu-
minance are higher than the target illuminance, neigh-
4.2.3 Three types of changes in luminance borhood B is selected. If more than one correlation
coefficient is higher than the threshold and more than
In ANA/CC, the luminance of each light is changed ran-
one current illuminance of the sensor are less than
domly with in a given range, and this range is called a
the target illuminance, neighborhood range C is se-
neighborhood range in ANA/CC. As you can see in Fig.4,
lected. The value of the threshold is determined by
there are three types of neighborhood range in ANA/CC
pre-experiment.
and it is used to generate next luminance. The values in
Fig.4 shows the relative rate of each neighborhood size. From these rule, the lights which have the illuminace
These upper and lower value of neighborhood range is es- sensors in near distance should change the luminance prop-
timated experimentally. Neighborhood range A attaches erly for that sensor and the light which does not have illu-
the importance to lower the luminance from current lu- minance sensor in near distance should decrease the lumi-
minance to converge to target illuminance. Neighborhood nance to minimum luminance.
range B generates the next luminance equally in the up-
per and lower sides, and it is used to adjust the luminance.
Neighborhood range C attaches the importance to increase 4.2.5 Objective function used in this algo-
the luminance intensity from current luminance. Only the rithm
neighborhood B has been used for the conventional control
algorithm so far. The goals of the intelligent lighting system are to bring the
illuminance close to the target illuminance for each sen-
sor, and to minimize electric power. In other Words, these
Luminous intensity
3.5
goals must be properly formulated in the objective func-
Current tion. The objective function used in this algorithm is indi-
luminous intensity
0.5
1
cated in Equation1.
0.5
1
1.5
A B C n
f = P +w gj (1)
Figure 4. Three neighborhood ranges j=1
m
P = Cdi
i=1
0 (Lcj − Ltj ) ≥ 0
gj =
4.2.4 Determination of neighborhood range Rj (Lcj − Ltj )2 (Lcj − Ltj ) < 0
process rj rj ≥ T minj
Rj =
0 rj < T minj
In ANA/CC there are three types of neighborhood range as
shown in Fig.4. To select one of the neighborhood ranges In ANA/CC, the goal is to minimize f in Equation.1.
adaptively, the correlation coefficient between luminance f is the sum of gj , which indicates the illuminance differ-
and illuminance is used. Then next luminance is generated ence between the current illuminance Lc and target illu-
randomly with in the neighborhood range. The process of minance Lt, and P is the amount of electric power used.
the determination of neighborhood range is shown below. r indicates correlation coefficient, and T min is the min-
imum value of threshold. For electric power P , use the
1. Each light calculates the correlation coefficient with
sum of each lighting’s luminance intensity Cd. The lumi-
all the illuminance sensors in the room.
nance has a linear relationship with the energy consumed,
and here it is taken to be the power used by each light. gj
⎧
⎨ A ri < threshold is added only if the illuminance difference is negative. In
B ri ≥ threshold and Lti ≤ Lci other words, the light increase the luminance rapidly if the
⎩
C ri ≥ threshold and Lti > Lci current illuminance is less than the target illuminance. If
the correlation is less than the minimum threshold, multi- • Experimetn1:When the environment is fixed
ply 0 to the illuminance difference. It is thought that the The target illuminance of the illuminance sensor was
accuracy will improve to satisfy the target illuminance, by set to: 750[lx] for sensor A, 800[lx] for sensor B,
narrowing-down the optimization target to high correlation 600[lx] for sensor C. The arrangement of illuminance
sensor (sensor close to the light). In addition, this gj is mul- sensor is shown in Fig.5.
tiplied by weight w. the value of this weight determines
whether priority will be placed on optimizing target illumi- • Experiment2:When the illuminance sensor is moved
nance, or optimizing electric power. The illuminance Sensor B is moved from its sate in
Experiment1 to the center position between Lights1,
2, 6, and 7.
5 Validation experiment using ANA/CC
• Experimetn3:When the intelligent lighting is mal-
5.1 The outline of an experiment functioned
Light3 is made to fail in the sate in Experiment1.
Experiments were conducted using the 3 pattern indicated
in Fig.5, and we verified that the autonomous distributed 5.2 Result of the experiment using ANA/CC
experiment system can satisfy the target illuminance and
minimize the electric power using ANA/CC. Also we ver- 5.2.1 Experiment1:When the environment is
ified that ANA/CC can estimate the distance of light and
illuminance sensor from the correlation.
fixed
The parameters used in the experiment are shown in
This section describes the experiment result when the envi-
Table.1.
ronment was fixed. Fig.6, Fig.7, and Fig.8 shows the his-
0.7m Failure
tory of illuminance at each illuminance sensor, the electric
1.2m 1.8m 1.2m power, luminance of light4, 6, 9, 12.
1 2 3 4 5
A
750[lx]
2.0m
1200 SensorA
SensorB 1600
Illuminance [lx]
6 7 8 9 10 1000 SensorC
1400
Move B
Power
C 800 A
1200
600[lx] 1.2m
C 1000
600
11 12 13 14 15 h=1.9m 800
B 400
0.7m 800[lx] 0 100 200 300 400 500
600
Number of steps 0 100 200 300 400 500
Sensor Fluorescent lamp Number of steps
Light4
100
Table 1. Experiment parameters Lamp4
Luminous intensity [%]
80
Lamp6
60 Light6
Number of fluorescent lamps 15
Light9,12
Number of illuminance sensors 3 Lamp9
40
Illuminance [lx]
SensorC
Fig.9-a and Fig.9-b shows the history of correlation 1000
coefficient of the light 4 and 9. Sensor A is near the light B
A
C
4 and the sensor does not exist near the light 9. Fig.9-a, 600
shows that only Sensor A’s correlation coefficient is at high SensorB is moved
value. Fig.9-b shows that correlation coefficient is low for 200
3000 4000 5000 6000
all three sensors. In other words, the result of correlation Number of steps
coefficient between luminance and illuminance can esti-
mate the distance of the lights and the illumiance sensors. Figure 11. Illuminance history
SensorA SensorB SensorC SensorA SensorB SensorC
1 1
Correlation coefficient
A
Correlation coefficient
0.5 0.5
lighted strongly, and the lights which does not affect any Sensor Fluorescent lamp
Sensor Fluorescent lamp
of the sensor are lighted with minimum luminanse. From
these result, we confirm that the power saving state is ob- Figure 12. Before sensorB Figure 13. Steady state
tained by ANA/CC. moved
Illuminance [lx]
1000 SensorC
light which are in near distance of the illuminance sensor
800
B lighted up with appropriate luminance and the lights which
A
C
does not affect any of the sensors lighted up with mini-
600
mum luminance. The results of the experiments showed
400
Lamp3 failure
that ANA/CC can operate appropriately. For these reasons,
3000 4000 5000 6000
Number of steps
we confirm that ANA/CC is very effective control method
for the intelligent lighting system.
Figure 14. Illuminance history
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