TITLE:
Homeostasis Lighting Control System Using a Sensor Agent Robot
AUTHORS:
Tatsuya Akiba, Akira Mita
KEYWORDS:
Homeostasis; Lighting Control; Sensor Agent Robot; Human Tracking
JOURNAL NAME:
Intelligent Control and Automation,
Vol.4 No.2,
May
24,
2013
ABSTRACT: In this study, “homeostasis”, the function by which living things keep their constancy, was emulated as a lighting control for a building space. The algorithm we developed mimics the mechanisms of the endocrine and immune systems. The endocrine system transmits information entirely, whereas the immune system transmits information with a concentration gradient. A lighting control system using the proposed algorithm was evaluated in a simulation and experiment using a sensor agent robot. In this algorithm, a robot recognizes a person’s behavior and uses it to decide his or her preference as to the illuminance. The results indicate that the algorithm can be used to realize a comfortable lighting control in several situations.