5.2. Experiment 2: modified conference room simulation
In Experiment 2, we modified the conference room model to replace the dense panel lights with two rows of 8 troffers each, as illustrated in Fig. 11a. This modification more closely resembles the lights that will be mounted in the physical space; our goal is to evaluate whether the controller design can easily be transferred to new configurations. Fig. 11b shows a diagram of the room from above, indicating the layout and numbering scheme of each LED/color sensor pair. The left and right sides of the diagram correspond to the near and far sides of the room in Fig. 11a, respectively.
As in the previous section, we rendered lightmaps for each of the 16 LED fixtures and 144 sun positions. As before, the setpoint for each fixture was [0.48, 0.5, 0.52] and the setpoints for color sensor readings were calculated at initialization. We conducted two design iterations to test the lighting control algorithms in the new configuration: