阅读说明：本技术 一种基于led电热模型的偏置电流的优化方法及系统 (Bias current optimization method and system based on LED electric heating model ) 是由 王超 穆昱 朱义君 张军政 汪涛 任嘉伟 张艳语 杜笑笑 亢令川 薛婧姝 于 2020-12-21 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种基于LED电热模型的偏置电流的优化方法及系统,方法包括：基于照明约束确定偏置电流的量级,根据通信性能需求计算所需的信号约束；基于偏置电流的量级和信号约束确定调制深度范围；在调制深度范围内,将调制深度的最大值对应的偏置电流确定为目标偏置电流。本发明能够根据电流,温度和光通量三者的关系,对偏置电流有效的进行优化,以提升光效,以及在满足场景照明的基础上,能够尽可能的优化通信性能。(The invention discloses a bias current optimization method and system based on an LED (light-emitting diode) electrothermal model, wherein the method comprises the following steps: determining the magnitude of the bias current based on the illumination constraint, and calculating the required signal constraint according to the communication performance requirement; determining a modulation depth range based on the magnitude of the bias current and the signal constraint; and determining the bias current corresponding to the maximum value of the modulation depth as the target bias current in the modulation depth range. The invention can effectively optimize the bias current according to the relationship among the current, the temperature and the luminous flux so as to improve the luminous efficiency and optimize the communication performance as much as possible on the basis of meeting the scene illumination.)

1. A bias current optimization method based on an LED electric heating model is characterized by comprising the following steps:

determining a magnitude of the bias current based on the illumination constraint;

calculating a required signal constraint according to the communication performance requirements;

determining a modulation depth range based on the magnitude of the bias current and the signal constraint;

and determining the bias current corresponding to the maximum value of the modulation depth as the target bias current in the modulation depth range.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein calculating the required signal constraints based on communication performance requirements comprises:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirements.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein calculating the required signal constraints from the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirements comprises:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters based on the signal-to-noise ratio.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein calculating the required signal constraints from the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirements comprises:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters according to the bit error rate.

5. The method of claim 3 or 4, wherein the communication parameters comprise: the distance between the receiving end and the transmitting end, the radiation angle, the receiving angle, the optical filter gain and the light-gathering sheet gain.

6. An optimization system of bias current based on an LED electric heating model is characterized by comprising:

a first determination module to determine a magnitude of a bias current based on an illumination constraint;

a calculation module for calculating a required signal constraint according to a communication performance requirement;

a second determination module to determine a modulation depth range based on the magnitude of the bias current and the signal constraint;

and the third determining module is used for determining the bias current corresponding to the maximum value of the modulation depth as the target bias current in the modulation depth range.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the calculation module, when performing the calculation of the required signal constraints according to the communication performance requirements, is specifically configured to:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirements.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the calculation module, when performing the required signal constraints calculated from the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirements, is specifically configured to:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters based on the signal-to-noise ratio.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the calculation module, when performing the required signal constraints calculated from the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirements, is specifically configured to:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters according to the bit error rate.

10. The system according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the communication parameters comprise: the distance between the receiving end and the transmitting end, the radiation angle, the receiving angle, the optical filter gain and the light-gathering sheet gain.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of visible light communication, in particular to a bias current optimization method and system based on an LED electric heating model.

Background

LED designs were originally designed for lighting rather than communication, and hundreds of megahertz on-off keying (OOK) and gigahertz Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) have long been implemented, but these high-speed communication technologies often neglect the severe limitations of LEDs on lighting. The technical expectation of visible light communication considering illumination is that the rapid modulation LED is used for data transmission on the premise of not losing the illumination function. However, the current and output light flux of an LED have a strongly concave characteristic, and the modulation causes a loss of light flux. To compensate for the flux loss, increasing the bias current will be used to meet the illumination requirements required by the design. However, an increase in bias current consumes more power, which causes problems such as an increase in temperature and a decrease in efficiency.

In addition, junction temperature will also be regarded as another factor that restricts LED luminous flux, the data that the manufacturer provides are only effective in junction temperature 25 duC, luminous efficiency will be reduced apparently with the temperature rise, under the normal junction temperature, luminous efficiency will be reduced more than 25%, and then reduce the luminous flux of output, the industry commonly used typical value is-2.1 lm/° C. The junction temperature depends on the power of the LED and directly on the mean square value of the drive current. In order to reduce the influence of temperature, a heat dissipation system with a larger specification is often adopted, the method reduces the influence of a heat effect to a certain extent, increases the volume of an LED system, and increases the difficulty of large-scale integration.

Therefore, how to effectively optimize the bias current to improve the lighting effect and optimize the communication performance as much as possible on the basis of meeting the scene illumination is an urgent problem to be solved.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, the invention provides an optimization method of bias current based on an LED electrothermal model, which can effectively optimize the bias current according to the relationship among current, temperature and luminous flux to improve the lighting effect and optimize the communication performance as much as possible on the basis of satisfying the scene illumination.

The invention provides a bias current optimization method based on an LED (light-emitting diode) electrothermal model, which comprises the following steps of:

determining a magnitude of the bias current based on the illumination constraint;

calculating a required signal constraint according to the communication performance requirements;

determining a modulation depth range based on the magnitude of the bias current and the signal constraint;

and determining the bias current corresponding to the maximum value of the modulation depth as the target bias current in the modulation depth range.

Preferably, calculating the required signal constraints according to the communication performance requirements includes:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirements.

Preferably, the calculating the required signal constraint according to the communication performance requirement by the communication parameter includes:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters based on the signal-to-noise ratio.

Preferably, the calculating the required signal constraint according to the communication performance requirement by the communication parameter includes:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters according to the bit error rate.

Preferably, the communication parameters include: the distance between the receiving end and the transmitting end, the radiation angle, the receiving angle, the optical filter gain and the light-gathering sheet gain.

An optimization system of bias current based on an LED electric heating model comprises:

a first determination module to determine a magnitude of a bias current based on an illumination constraint;

a calculation module for calculating a required signal constraint according to a communication performance requirement;

a second determination module to determine a modulation depth range based on the magnitude of the bias current and the signal constraint;

and the third determining module is used for determining the bias current corresponding to the maximum value of the modulation depth as the target bias current in the modulation depth range.

Preferably, the calculation module, when performing the calculation of the required signal constraints according to the communication performance requirements, is specifically configured to:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirements.

Preferably, the calculation module, when executing the signal constraint required for calculating through the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirement, is specifically configured to:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters based on the signal-to-noise ratio.

Preferably, the calculation module, when executing the signal constraint required for calculating through the communication parameters according to the communication performance requirement, is specifically configured to:

the required signal constraints are calculated from the communication parameters according to the bit error rate.

Preferably, the communication parameters include: the distance between the receiving end and the transmitting end, the radiation angle, the receiving angle, the optical filter gain and the light-gathering sheet gain.

In summary, the invention discloses a bias current optimization method based on an LED electrothermal model, when the bias current needs to be optimized, the magnitude of the bias current is determined based on illumination constraint; calculating a required signal constraint according to the communication performance requirements; then determining a modulation depth range based on the magnitude of the bias current and signal constraints; and determining the bias current corresponding to the maximum value of the modulation depth as the target bias current in the modulation depth range. The invention can effectively optimize the bias current according to the relationship among the current, the temperature and the luminous flux so as to improve the luminous efficiency and optimize the communication performance as much as possible on the basis of meeting the scene illumination.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a static equivalent model of an LED according to the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a relationship between luminous flux output and current variation of an LED according to the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the change of light effect caused by modulation according to the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the illumination and signal flux allowed by a different bias point disclosed in the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a bias point and allowed AC components according to the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a method of embodiment 1 of a bias current optimization method based on an LED electrothermal model according to the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment 1 of a bias current optimization system based on an LED electrothermal model according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

In order to realize the optimization of the bias current, the communication performance is optimized as much as possible by reasonably optimizing the bias current on the premise of not changing the indoor illumination, and the current-power relation of the LED, the thermal influence of the LED and the photoelectric thermal change caused by the luminous flux output and modulation of the LED under the electric heating influence are firstly analyzed.

(1) Current to power relationship of LED

For LEDs modulated by a smooth and ergodic random signal, the power expectation depends on the probability density function of the drive current:

wherein I (t) ═ (1+ s (t) · I_b(I) is the probability density function of the modulation current, S (t) is the modulation mode of the LED, I_bIs a bias current of the LED, V₀Is the turn-on voltage of the LED, R_LIs the dc resistance of the LED.

(2) Thermal influence of LEDs

The output characteristics of the LED are also constrained by temperature. In the thermal model, the rate of change K of the LED with the junction temperature needs to be considered_vCombining the electrical behavior and the thermal behavior of the LED, a static equivalent model of the LED is shown in fig. 1, where the left side of fig. 1 represents the electrical domain of the LED, the right side represents the thermal domain, the thermal behavior is affected by the power of the LED, and the bias voltage V affecting the LED is fed back_b。

On the hot-zone side, the node voltage actually represents the temperature at these points. From the equivalent circuit, the heat sink temperature (T) can be calculated_hs) And junction temperature (T)_j)。

T_hs＝T_a+R_hsP_LEDK_h

T_j＝T_hs+R_jcP_LEDK_h

Wherein R is_hsAnd R_jcRespectively representing the heat resistance of the heat sink to the environment and the heat resistance of the junction to the housing, T_aIs the ambient temperature, k_hMeaning that the LED power becomes the radiant power that heats up to the LED. According to the model, the bias voltage expression of the LED influenced by the heat domain can be calculated as follows:

the modeling of the equation can be based on the temperature effect and the electrical behavior of the LED, and assuming thermal steady state operation, the static dc characteristic describing the LED can be obtained.

(3) LED luminous flux output under influence of electric heat

According to the PET theory of LEDs, the junction temperature and the modulation current of LEDs are the main factors for modeling the luminous flux characteristics. Can be expressed as follows:

wherein the influence on temperature and current is normalized to a linear result, K₁Is the temperature coefficient, d₁Is the current coefficient. The luminous flux output of the LED versus current change is shown in fig. 2.

Taking 2PAM modulation as an example, for a luminous flux without a modulation LED FB and an average luminous flux after modulation FA, it is clear that modulation causes a drop in luminous flux due to the droop effect between current and flux (concave functional relationship). To achieve the illumination requirement of the scene, the increased bias current needs to be increased to Ia to achieve the same luminous flux.

(4) Modulation induced photo-electro-thermal change

(4.1) modulation induced junction temperature variation

For a modulated LED, its temperature is mainly affected by the power, which is composed of both the dc and ac components of the current.

T_j＝T_a+R_hsK_h(P_AC+P_DC)+R_jaK_h(P_AC+P_DC)

Wherein the dc power and the ac power of the LEDs can be calculated as:

as can be seen from the formula, the power of the LED depends mainly on the mean square value I of the modulation current_rms，I_rmsValue is then related to the bias current I_bAre highly correlated. Therefore, by controlling the bias current, the junction temperature can be controlled, and further, the appropriate light effect can be selected according to the requirement.

(4.2) light efficiency degradation due to modulation

The main role of optimizing LED lighting systems is luminous efficiency rather than energy efficiency, so it is necessary to optimize the luminous efficiency of LEDs as much as possible to ensure the lighting component and the ac signal component of LEDs. Wherein, the alternating current component of the LED is:

the light efficiency of an LED can be calculated as:

wherein, F_avgIs the average luminous flux, P_LEDIs the power of the LED. The light effect change due to modulation is shown in fig. 3.

The decrease in light efficiency due to the increase in modulation depth is clearly observed in fig. 3. Due to the increase of the modulation depth, the effective value of the LED current is increased, so that the junction temperature is increased, and the luminous efficiency of the LED is reduced. And the larger the bias current, the lower the light efficiency of the system.

(4.3) illumination and Signal flux allowed by different bias points

From the above, it can be seen that both bias current and modulation depth will cause a reduction in light efficiency, and in order to study the impact of the selection of bias points on illumination and communication, the maximum illumination flux and maximum signal component allowed for each bias point can be analyzed, and the modulation depth can be allowed to be maximized at each bias point. The curves in fig. 4 correspond in turn to bias currents 0.3A to 0.7A, and it is evident that as the bias current increases, the maximum allowable illumination component increases, but the increment of the illumination component decreases, because the increase of the bias current increases the power and temperature of the LED, causing a decrease in the light efficiency, which in turn appears as a decrease in the increment of the illumination component. The maximum ac component allowed for each bias point depends on the modulation depth and light efficiency. A larger bias point is chosen, but the ac component of the system is limited because the light effect is smaller. Clearly, the approach of compensating for the illumination component by raising the bias point may be at the expense of a loss in communication performance.

By constructing an electrothermal model simulation and fixing the LED illumination component, the result is shown in FIG. 5. The different ac signal components allowed by the LED selection of different bias points are different, and when the bias point is larger, the allowable illumination component is increased, while the allowable signal component is reduced significantly. From the theoretical analysis and simulation results, the bias point is properly reduced, and the improvement of the alternating current component is facilitated.

Based on the above analysis, as shown in fig. 6, a method flowchart of embodiment 1 of the bias current optimization method based on the LED electrothermal model disclosed in the present invention is shown, where the method may include the following steps:

s601, determining the magnitude of the bias current based on illumination constraint;

when the bias current needs to be optimized, an approximate magnitude of the bias current is first determined according to the indoor lighting requirements of the scene, i.e., according to lighting constraints.

S602, calculating required signal constraints according to communication performance requirements;

then, the required magnitude of the alternating current component is calculated according to the communication performance requirement, i.e. the required signal constraint is calculated.

Specifically, when the signal constraint required for the communication performance requirement is calculated, the required signal constraint may be calculated according to the signal-to-noise ratio or the bit error rate. The calculation can be determined by communication parameters such as the distance between the receiving end and the transmitting end, the radiation angle, the receiving angle, the gain of the optical filter, the gain of the light-gathering sheet and the like.

S603, determining a modulation depth range based on the magnitude of the bias current and signal constraint;

the allowed modulation depth is then determined based on the determined magnitude of the bias current and the calculated signal constraints.

And S604, determining the bias current corresponding to the maximum value of the modulation depth as the target bias current in the modulation depth range.

Finally, within the allowed modulation depth range, the maximum value of the modulation depth is used as the selection criterion of the bias current, so that the optimal communication point under the illumination requirement can be obtained.

In summary, the present invention develops the relationship between the bias current and the temperature, the correlation between the bias current and the optical effect and the correlation between the bias current and the signal component, based on the electrical and thermal mechanism of the LED, combined with the temperature factor and the change of the optical characteristics caused by focusing electrical and thermal, mainly the change of the optical effect, the illumination component and the signal component, so as to maintain the higher signal component as much as possible by reducing the bias point without reducing the indoor illumination. The invention can provide the most reasonable bias point current selection according to the specific scene illumination requirement and the communication performance requirement, and the bias point can realize the optimal error code performance under constant illumination.

As shown in fig. 7, which is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment 1 of a bias current optimization system based on an LED electrothermal model disclosed in the present invention, the system may include:

a first determining module 701 for determining a magnitude of the bias current based on the illumination constraint;

when the bias current needs to be optimized, an approximate magnitude of the bias current is first determined according to the indoor lighting requirements of the scene, i.e., according to lighting constraints.

A calculation module 702 for calculating a required signal constraint according to communication performance requirements;

then, the required magnitude of the alternating current component is calculated according to the communication performance requirement, i.e. the required signal constraint is calculated.

Specifically, when the signal constraint required for the communication performance requirement is calculated, the required signal constraint may be calculated according to the signal-to-noise ratio or the bit error rate. The calculation can be determined by communication parameters such as the distance between the receiving end and the transmitting end, the radiation angle, the receiving angle, the gain of the optical filter, the gain of the light-gathering sheet and the like.

A second determining module 703 for determining a modulation depth range based on the magnitude of the bias current and the signal constraint;

the allowed modulation depth is then determined based on the determined magnitude of the bias current and the calculated signal constraints.

A third determining module 704, configured to determine, as the target bias current, the bias current corresponding to the maximum value of the modulation depths within the modulation depth range.

Finally, within the allowed modulation depth range, the maximum value of the modulation depth is used as the selection criterion of the bias current, so that the optimal communication point under the illumination requirement can be obtained.

In summary, the present invention develops the relationship between the bias current and the temperature, the correlation between the bias current and the optical effect and the correlation between the bias current and the signal component, based on the electrical and thermal mechanism of the LED, combined with the temperature factor and the change of the optical characteristics caused by focusing electrical and thermal, mainly the change of the optical effect, the illumination component and the signal component, so as to maintain the higher signal component as much as possible by reducing the bias point without reducing the indoor illumination. The invention can provide the most reasonable bias point current selection according to the specific scene illumination requirement and the communication performance requirement, and the bias point can realize the optimal error code performance under constant illumination.

The embodiments in the present description are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other. The device disclosed by the embodiment corresponds to the method disclosed by the embodiment, so that the description is simple, and the relevant points can be referred to the method part for description.

Those of skill would further appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, computer software, or combinations of both, and that the various illustrative components and steps have been described above generally in terms of their functionality in order to clearly illustrate this interchangeability of hardware and software. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the implementation. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present invention.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be embodied directly in hardware, in a software module executed by a processor, or in a combination of the two. A software module may reside in Random Access Memory (RAM), memory, Read Only Memory (ROM), electrically programmable ROM, electrically erasable programmable ROM, registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art.

The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.