EP3724683A1 - Receiving arrangement for receiving light signals - Google Patents
Receiving arrangement for receiving light signalsInfo
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- EP3724683A1 EP3724683A1 EP18807935.4A EP18807935A EP3724683A1 EP 3724683 A1 EP3724683 A1 EP 3724683A1 EP 18807935 A EP18807935 A EP 18807935A EP 3724683 A1 EP3724683 A1 EP 3724683A1
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- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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- G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a receiving device for receiving light signals or a method for receiving light signals according to the preamble of the independent claims.
- US 2004/0233942 A1 discloses a system and a method for measuring the phase of a modulated optical signal.
- so-called single-photon detectors SPDs are used to receive.
- this type of detectors which include the SPADs (single photon avalanche derivatives), have a so-called dead time.
- the receiving arrangement according to the invention for receiving light signals or the inventive method for receiving light signals with the features of the independent claims have the advantage that by the use of different groups of light receiving elements in the light receiver, each having a different sensitivity for the reception of Have light signals, it is achieved to be ready to receive in the dead time, especially during the self-glare.
- Self-glare means that the emitted light signals dazzle the own receiving arrangement.
- the monitoring of the near range, for example, in a LiDAR system is necessary for various reasons:
- the transmission behavior of, for example, a glass sheet, which is arranged above the transmitting and receiving arrangement, must be monitored for self-diagnosis of the sensor.
- Objects arranged directly in front of a LiDAR system must be able to be monitored or detected up to a distance of a few centimeters, since such objects must not disappear in the vicinity.
- the emitted light output may need to be reduced if a person or other object is located very close to the LiDAR sensor.
- Another problem is that a reflected light pulse on a front panel causes the light capture elements, which are designed, for example, as SPAD cells, can trigger.
- the SPAD cells After such a triggering, for example, the SPAD cells have this so-called dead time. This can be 10-20 nanoseconds, after which only a new detection of light signals is possible again. Also, while sending the light signals, the pulse width is then, for example, 5 nanoseconds, no measurement is possible.
- a front screen can create a direct optical feedback between transmitter and receiver. The system is designed for long ranges of several hundred meters and therefore uses light signals with high energy and very sensitive reception elements. Therefore, a low backscatter of the windshield of eg 1% is sufficient for complete glare of the receiver. Typical SPAD receive cells have a dead time of 10 to 20 nanoseconds, which corresponds to a near range of 1.5 to 3 meters, where no object could be detected.
- the invention can also be used for related systems.
- the receiving arrangement according to the invention can be designed, for example, as an assembly which, for example, is installed as such in a vehicle for environment recognition. It is possible, however, that the receiving arrangement is also designed to be distributed, i. H. from different assemblies or components. At least parts of the receiving arrangement or even completely can be designed as an integrated circuit or, in particular, as a single circuit.
- the light signals are preferably periodic light signals, which are thus emitted at a specific repetition frequency.
- laser pulses are sent with a period in the microsecond range, wherein the pulse width of the laser pulse is, for example, a few nanoseconds.
- These light signals are preferably generated by semiconductor lasers, for example, so-called VCSELs (vertical cavity surface emitting lasers).
- the light receiver is a device which has a plurality of light-receiving elements. According to the invention, there are at least two groups of such light-receiving elements. A first group of light-receiving elements has a higher sensitivity than at least one further group of such chen light receiving elements. The first group is used for the long range and the at least one other group for the short range. According to the invention, it has been recognized that the deactivation of the SPADs with higher sensitivity during, for example, the laser emission phase and, in this case, the activation of the SPADs with low sensitivity, can also be reliably detected by the occurrence of the so-called dead time in the case of SPADs. With the near range distances of a few centimeters to 3 meters are meant.
- the evaluation circuit can be a combination of software and hardware components or even software or only hardware components. This evaluation circuit can consist of several modules or even have only one.
- the light receiving elements convert the light signals into electrical signals, these electrical signals are used to determine the distance between the receiving device and an object on which the light signals have been reflected. For the determination of the distance a start signal is additionally marked, which marks the time of the light emission and starts the measurement. This start signal can be coupled out electrically or optically from the Lichtpulserzeu- supply.
- the object may be another vehicle, a stationary object such as a tree or people or other things.
- the distance determination is usually made up to a distance of 300 meters in the vehicle area.
- the so-called time-of-flight principle is used. In order to realize the 300 meters, a time period of 2 microseconds is required.
- the light receiver has a group of light receiving elements, ie there are at least 2 light receiving elements per light receiver. Usually, however, there are significantly more, so that a whole field of, for example, photodiodes is present - a so-called array, which is preferably controlled column by column in such a way that when the column is driven in the laser array, the corresponding column is driven in the light receiver array. Ie. becomes the first Column driven in the laser array, also the first column in the light receiver array is driven.
- the fact that the first and the second group of the light receiving elements are ready to receive at different times means that the groups never receive light at the same time. Ie. there is a disjoint control of the receptivity of the two groups. Ready to receive means that the light-receiving element can convert received light signals into electrical signals and be evaluated accordingly.
- the further group is ready to receive in response to the start signal of a transmission circuit for sending the light signals.
- the receiving arrangement receives from a transmitter circuit, which usually outputs the light signal by means of a semiconductor laser array, an electrical and / or optical start signal, which is used to switch the readiness for receiving the further group.
- This then means, in particular, that this further group is ready to receive if this start signal indicates that light signals are being transmitted.
- the first group is not ready to receive.
- the lower sensitivity of the further group is achieved by masking by providing a reduced aperture in front of each light-receiving element of this further group in comparison to the opening of the masking in front of the light-receiving elements of the first group. By such a reduced aperture or aperture, the incident on the light receiving element light energy is reduced. This is accompanied by a reduction in sensitivity. Such an opening is referred to in the optics with aperture.
- the masking is different, d. H. the openings are different sizes.
- the openings may be, for example, in the ratio of 1: 5, 1: 20 and 1: 100 formed in relation to the openings of the first group.
- the reason for this is that spatial resolution is not required in the near field, but the dynamics are critical because there is a high signal energy in this near field. If objects are very close to the receiver arrangement, too much light is reflected and is not attenuated by the greater distance or the scattering is smaller.
- the light-receiving elements of the first group are arranged directly at the position of the received light signals at infinite object distance.
- the light-receiving elements of the further group are arranged offset to the light-receiving elements of the first group, so that the light-receiving elements of the further group are outside the position of the received light signals at infinite object distance.
- the light-receiving elements have single-photon avalanche diodes.
- These SPADs are equipped with a high blocking voltage, so that already one photon can be enough to trigger the avalanche effect in these diodes.
- various such diodes are combined into macro diodes by, for example, the output signals being mutated or summed up.
- Such single Photon avalanche diodes are usually made of silicon.
- compound semiconductors are also possible.
- the operating mode of such diodes is also referred to as Geiger mode.
- the electrical signals of the first and the further group are combined with at least one logical OR gate.
- Such a combination makes it possible to keep the signal processing simple, since the same signal processing string can be used for different groups of diodes or individual diodes.
- the masking comprises metal.
- This masking of metal or at least partially of metal can be vapor-deposited, for example, on a glass plate or directly on the semiconductor and then removed again with photoresist patterning and corresponding etching processes. Also, an electrolytic application of such a metallization is possible.
- FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the receiving arrangement according to the invention with a connected transmitting device
- Fig. 3 shows a first configuration of the two groups of light receiving elements
- Fig. 4 shows a further configuration of the two groups of light receiving elements
- FIG. 5 shows a flow chart of the method according to the invention.
- Fig. 1 shows a vehicle V, which moves in the direction R.
- the vehicle V has the LiDAR modules Li1 to Li6.
- a LiDAR module is a transmitting device for sending light signals and the receiving arrangement according to the invention for receiving the then reflected light signals.
- These LiDAR modules capture the surroundings of vehicle V. There are more or less LiDAR modules are used and also at other locations of the vehicle V. Therefore, the object OB is detected by the LiDAR module Li1.
- the LiDAR modules Li1 to Li6 have a receiver arrangement according to the invention and a transmitter device which, as described above, uses a laser array to send the laser pulses in order to then receive the laser pulses reflected at the object OB with a SPAD array and then to evaluate them in accordance with the time-correlated photon count to determine the distance between the object OB and the vehicle V.
- the time-of-flight method is used for this.
- the object detection can be carried out, for example, using the measuring principle TCSPC (time-correlated single phonon counting).
- TCSPC time-correlated single phonon counting
- a measurement is repeated many times and the individual temporally correlated photons in relation to the excitation pulse are sorted according to their measured time in a so-called TCSPC flistogram.
- This typically has a temporal channel resolution or class width of 0.1 to 1 ns and represents the time course of the backscattered by a laser pulse light. This allows a very accurate time measurement of the laser pulse. For example. An object is hit by a transmitter with many photons, which are then received by the receiver array. Due to the frequent repetition of this photon determination, it is possible to precisely determine the light pulse with respect to its time of flight and amplitude. After the measurement has been completed, the times of the local maximum values in the histogram are determined. The temporal position of the maximum values allows the distance measurement to one or more objects.
- FIG. 2 shows in a block diagram the receiving arrangement EM according to the invention, which is connected to a transmitter circuit SE.
- the transmitter circuit SE has a pulse generator PG, which drives a laser driver LD.
- PG pulse generator
- the light signals are emitted in pulses having a pulse width of the pulse packet of 5 nanoseconds with a time period of 2 microseconds. Therefore, a pulse generator that can be created hardware and / or software technology, advantage.
- FIG. 2 shows, by way of example, a laser driver which provides an electrical start signal for the time-correlated photon measurement.
- the start signal can also be provided in other ways. For example, it is also possible to directly use the signal of the pulse generator when the delay time of the laser driver is constant.
- the laser driver LD implements this by supplying the laser diodes L in the semiconductor laser array with a corresponding pulse current.
- the laser diodes L are connected via a resistor RL, which is a shunt resistor, connected to ground. Current limit represents, connected to ground.
- a comparator Comp Between the laser diodes L and the shunt resistor RL, the output signal is applied to a comparator Comp, where this output signal is compared with a reference voltage Vref.
- the start signal START is used in the receiving arrangement to measure the times of the photon events in relation to the light emission by means of a time-to-digital conversion (TDC) and to accumulate these in a histogram H.
- TDC time-to-digital conversion
- This start signal Start is given to the receiving arrangement EM on a time-to-digital conversion TDC in order to trigger the signal processing.
- this start signal is still used, as not shown here, during the emission of the laser pulses, the other group of SPADs, here symbolically denoted by D2, ready to receive.
- the diodes D1 are not switched to readiness for reception. So you are locked. Only the diodes D2 can convert light signals into electrical signals during this period.
- This other group of SPADs D2 has a lower sensitivity for receiving light signals than the first group of SPADs D1.
- both SPADs D1 and D2 are connected to the time-to-digital conversion TDC via a simple linkage representing an OR link.
- quench resistor RQ which in turn is connected to ground.
- the so-called quenching takes place via the quench resistance RQ: the avalanche effect is throttled and ultimately stopped, in the present case by the resistance RQ. Again, this happens in a time that is much less than 1 ns. This quenching is necessary to prevent self-destruction of the photodiode. Quenching with a resistor is called passive quenching. After stopping the avalanche effect, the SPAD cell is recharged via the resistor to the higher bias voltage Vspadl or Vspad2.
- the diodes D1 are switched to receive readiness before, with or after the transmission pulse, and then the diodes D2 are put in the blocking mode and are then no longer ready to receive. This non-readiness to receive is achieved by placing the voltage SPAD1 or Vspad2 shortly below the breakdown voltage.
- This control of the voltages is effected by a control module, not shown, or a control software via corresponding hardware. If, in these disjoint time segments, light signals are converted into electrical signals by one of the groups of light-receiving elements, a so-called event signal is present, which enters the time-to-digital conversion TDC. With the start signal and the clock signal for the time-to-digital conversion TDC is set accordingly. The time-to-digital conversion TDC can also use the start signal to determine what time the event signal is to be allocated, ie how long have the photons taken to reach the receiving device EM from the transmitting device SE. This time for this event is then stored in a histogram H. This is often repeated.
- a maximum search in the histogram shows the distance which is determined by the stored time, which has the strongest signal, that is to say the largest photon count. From this, the distance is then determined in the signal processing SV and over the interface module IF passed. From this, appropriate driving functions can be derived. This realizes a so-called time-correlated photon counting.
- FIG. 3 shows a first configuration of the two groups of light-receiving elements.
- the first group is labeled SPAD1 and the second group is SPAD2, which has an aperture in the middle. Also represented by the circle is a so-called light spot, in that some SPADs are drawn in black, then also convert light signals into electrical signals.
- the gray SPAD1 diodes are not activated by the light signal. It is characteristic that the SPAD2 each have the same aperture.
- method step 500 the light signals are received and converted.
- method step 502 a distance determination is carried out.
- 2 groups of SPADs as shown above each switched ready to receive.
- the SPADs are switched ready to receive, which have a lower sensitivity with regard to the reception of light signals. Otherwise, the SPADs are switched with higher sensitivity. This ensures that a close-range detection, which is necessary, for example, for vehicle operation, is possible. Bezuas Lake
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