WO2017162323A1 - Effiziente steuerungsanordnung und steuerungsverfahren - Google Patents
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- the present invention is directed to a control arrangement with series-connected control units together with a corresponding control method, which makes it possible to provide a particularly efficient data transmission, in particular for light-emitting diode control units.
- the present invention is also directed to a corresponding protocol which causes control units to perform the respective method steps.
- the control protocol causes a transmission of control signals between the control units.
- a computer program product is proposed, which has control commands for executing the method or the protocol and holds the control commands to a computer for their execution.
- US 2014/0 333 207 A1 shows a lighting arrangement with light-emitting diodes, which are connected in series according to the known daisy-chaining method and in this case exchange status information.
- US 8 492 983 B1 shows a system for controlling light emitting diodes by means of a serial bus line. In this case, it is proposed to receive an address field and to modify an address field.
- US 2009/0 021 955 A1 shows a vehicle with a lighting arrangement with light-emitting diodes together with appropriate control.
- run-length codes and communication protocols for data exchange between arithmetic units are proposed.
- Internet protocols are known which provide a computer network by means of several server units.
- appropriate components have to be provided which have extensive computing capacities and memory.
- Such communication networks are typically operated such that communication on a data line in one direction causes a response in the opposite direction.
- certain handshake protocols are known, for example, negotiate a connection and this lead to a series of inquiries and answers.
- typically there is no unidirectional communication but data is also transferred from the second unit to the first unit in a data exchange from a first unit to a second unit.
- a back channel is always reserved in conventional methods, which can cause a bandwidth reduction on the downlink channel.
- CAN bus which was developed with regard to harnesses and in particular is intended to implement networking of control units.
- the CAN bus provides a large number of components and requires a variety of backup mechanisms to ensure that there are no transmission errors.
- data transfers are necessary to ensure the integrity of the data. For this purpose, a number of precautions are taken, which in turn claim computational resources and bandwidth.
- LIN bus Local Interconnect Network Bus
- the LIN bus is a generic approach that typically does not apply to broadband application scenarios.
- a comprehensive error handling must also be performed. For example, checksums are calculated and erroneously detected signals are discarded. Fault signaling is not part of the protocol, but may need to be defined in another application layer.
- a number of communication protocols are known which cause a data transmission in a communication network. In this case, a central unit is typically formed, which regulates the data traffic.
- control units each of the control units having a first communication interface, which is adapted for communication with another control unit and a second communication interface, which is suitable for communication with another control unit proposed.
- the control units are set up such that control signals are transmitted from the first communication interface to the second communication interface exclusively or from the second communication interface to the first communication interface.
- the control arrangement according to the invention is not only set up in such a way that always always in the same direction of communication is sent, but rather it is an advantage of the present invention that just in both directions of communication can be sent, but this is delayed.
- control unit according to the invention which is used in the control arrangement, is set up such that it sends from the first communication interface to the second communication interface, but at the same time is also set up to transmit in the reverse direction of communication.
- exclusive or does not describe any alternative to the structural design of the underlying tax units the controllers can actually communicate in both directions, but never do so at the same time.
- control signals describes that it is not an atomic control signal, but that a plurality of control signals is always exchanged in one direction, which is advantageous in particular because the majority of the control signals are transmitted exclusively in one direction of communication. This rules out that an atomic request is sent in a first direction of communication and a response in the opposite direction is sent in.
- first control signals are sent in a first communication direction, namely from the first communication interface to the second communication interface , and subsequently, ie with a time delay, a second plurality of control signals is sent from the second communication interface to the first communication interface, that is to say in a second communication direction times, that the control units are set up so that they do not simultaneously cause further transmission of further control signals in the opposite direction when transmitting coherent control signals.
- a first communication direction namely from the first communication interface to the second communication interface
- a second plurality of control signals is sent from the second communication interface to the first communication interface, that is to say in a second communication direction times, that the control units are set up so that they do not simultaneously cause further transmission of further control signals in the opposite direction when transmitting coherent control signals.
- a control arrangement is proposed, the invention also being geared to the control units individually.
- the control units are connected in series in such a way that a control unit has one or at most two communication partners, namely further control units.
- each control unit typically has two communication partners, whereby it is also possible for there to be only one communication partner at the end of the series.
- the series of control units may be coupled to other command units.
- the series-connected control units are each in direct connection. This means that typically no intermediate units are switched on in the series. Only at the beginning of a series is it possible to provide a command unit.
- This instruction unit may also be referred to as master, while the other series-connected control units are referred to as slave.
- the communication interfaces are set up. Since each control unit typically has two communication neighbors, a first communication interface is provided with a first neighbor and a second communication interface with a second neighbor. In this case, the first communication interface is always used and is therefore set up for communication with another control unit. While the second communication interface can also be set up to communicate with another control unit, it is at least suitable for communication with another control unit. This describes the case in which the communication interface figuratively runs into the void, since no further control unit is connected. Thus, typically, both communication interfaces are arranged to communicate with other controllers because the controllers typically have two communication neighbors.
- control unit is installed at the end of the series, and thus the second communication interface at the end of the series is only suitable for Communication with another control unit.
- This is ⁇ geous particularly because all control units are typically designed equal. Thus, there is no need to distinguish between control units installed within the series and control units installed at the end of the series.
- a transmission of control signals from the first communication interface to the second communication interface is typically a transmission of control commands through the control unit.
- control signals are received by a communication interface, these are either processed or passed directly to the second communication interface.
- control signals are received and processed and are passed on immediately after receiving.
- it is not necessary to wait for the result of the processing of the control commands, but the control commands or control signals can be processed within the control unit, while they have already been passed on to another control unit.
- an efficient handover of the control signals is also possible because a time delay of the processing of the control signals does not have to be accepted.
- the use of the communication interfaces implies on the control arrangement as a whole a direction of communication.
- the characteristics communication direction within the control units also relate to data line segments which connect the control units.
- just the data line segments that connect the control units exclusive use, since it is possible to implement the communication direction on multiple control units.
- the underlying transmission of the control signals in a first control unit can cause control signals to be received, a communication direction to be set and the control commands forwarded.
- Setting a communication direction here implies that upon receipt of data from a first communication partner, the corresponding output to that communication partner is disabled, unless it is the last control unit in the series. Rather, after the handover of the received control signals in a further control unit, a reception of precisely these control signals is triggered.
- a transmission of control signals from a first causes Control unit to a second control unit blocking the underlying return direction.
- a first signal transmission takes place from the first communication interface to the second communication interface
- a second control signal transmission takes place from the second communication interface to the first communication interface. This is done with a time delay.
- the control signal transmission transmits a plurality of control commands.
- This has the advantage that not only atomic signals are transmitted, but that just a plurality of control commands continuously, ie without responses, can be sent from a control unit to a next control unit.
- the control commands within the control units can also be transmitted from an incoming communication interface to an outgoing communication interface. Thus, even within a transmission of a plurality of control commands, an exclusive access to the control unit always takes place.
- control units are configured at least substantially the same. This has the advantage that the control units can be provided with little technical effort, as always uniform control units can be used in the series application. Thus, it is indistinguishable whether a control unit is installed within the series or at the end or at the beginning of the series. In this case, it is also possible that the control units are not merely configured substantially the same, but have the same design.
- the control units recognize exactly one signaling format.
- the signaling format also referred to as header, in any direction of communication, whether within the control units or between the control units, can be configured the same.
- this control unit is also set up to use the same signaling format when transmitting the control signals.
- a uniform signaling format is always used within the entire control arrangement, ie the series-connected control units. This is advantageous in particular because a first signaling format is not used for a communication direction and a second signaling format is used for a second communication direction. This in turn makes it possible to provide the control units with little technical effort, since they only need to recognize a single signaling format.
- a recognition here depends on the interpretation of the signaling format.
- a unique signal sequence for clock determination is provided in accordance with the signaling format. This has the advantage that even with a different local clock of the individual control units implicitly by the control commands a uniform timing can be brought about. This is the case since the control commands can have a predetermined signal sequence which indicates to the respective control unit that user data is transmitted after the received signal sequence. Thus, the data signals received on the communication line can be interpreted without providing a central unit which provides a clock. Rather, the control units have features that receive communication signals on the data line. If now the predefined signal sequence is received, it is determined independently of further measures that now the subsequent signals are to be interpreted as a transmission frame or as data.
- the signaling format does not provide address information.
- This has the advantage that the address can already be implicitly provided by the series-connected control units by driving a corresponding communication interface. Thus, it is not necessary to specify the communication receiver in a data transmission. This is always the communication partner who shares a communication line with the sending control unit. In particular, it is particularly advantageous according to the invention that no bandwidth for address information is lost.
- the controllers recognize a variable size of payload. This has the advantage that no predefined format must be adhered to. Rather, it is possible to distinguish the header data and the payload data by receiving a unique signal sequence as header data and subsequently receiving payload data. User data is received until the control units in turn receive another unique signal sequence, which in turn initiates new user data.
- control units establish an exclusive direction of communication between the two communication interfaces by means of the control signals.
- control units it is also possible for the control units to specify an exclusive direction of communication on the attached data lines by means of the control signals.
- the control signals set an exclusive direction of communication both within the control units and between the control units.
- the communication lines communicate in pairs unidirectionally with each other at each time of control signal transmission. This has the advantage that the control units not only within, between two communication interfaces can be switched exclusively in a direction of communication, but rather that a communication direction between the control units is adjustable.
- the controllers drive light emitting diodes.
- This has the advantage that, especially in series-connected light-emitting diodes, rapid activation of precisely these light-emitting diodes is possible, and thus a particularly attractive light-emitting behavior is set.
- the control arrangement according to the invention is therefore particularly advantageous, since light-emitting diodes must be able to be activated with little technical outlay and corresponding diagnostic options must be provided.
- a control arrangement is proposed according to the invention, which just allows a diagnosis of light emitting diodes. A diagnosis of LEDs may require additional sensors.
- light-emitting diodes operated at runtime can also be efficiently activated as a function of a diagnostic result.
- control signals have a color value of a light-emitting diode.
- This has the advantage that also so-called multi-color LEDs can be used. It is thus possible, for example, to set the emitted wavelength of the light-emitting diode by means of an RGB value in such a way that a specific color is generated.
- the present object is also achieved by a control method for series-connected control units, each of the control units having a first communication interface, which is set up for communication with a further control unit and a second communication interface, which is suitable for communication with a further control unit.
- the control signals are transmitted from the first communication interface to the second communication interface exclusively or, thus, either or, transmitted from the second communication interface to the first communication interface.
- the present method excludes that control units simultaneously transmit control signals to two communication partners.
- the control units can transmit control commands to each of the two communication neighbors. However, this happens with a time delay.
- a method step is provided for blocking a communication direction between the two communication interfaces. This also applies to a blocking of a communication direction between two control units. Thus, according to the invention, it is ensured that an exclusive communication direction is implemented and not sent to two communication partners in each case.
- the present object is also achieved by a computer program product with control commands, which are set up to carry out one of the proposed methods.
- the individual protocol steps are specified in the method according to the invention, and the computer program product stores these control commands for use as a log.
- the control arrangement according to the invention or the series-connected control units according to the invention can be controlled by means of the described method.
- these control units or the control arrangement can be operated by means of the method.
- the control units or the control arrangement find use in the execution of the. Method.
- all features of the control arrangement, the series-connected control units, the method and the computer program product can be combined in such a way that adapts the inventive advantage.
- a control arrangement is proposed together with a corresponding control method, which make it possible to achieve a particularly efficient hardware utilization and thereby exploit the maximum bandwidth. Since the underlying hardware must always operate a communication direction, this is correspondingly simple to design, which in turn leads to a reduced susceptibility to errors. Furthermore, corresponding components can be made smaller, have less heat generation and require less power than known components.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of the control unit according to the invention together with corresponding communication interfaces
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic block diagram of a control arrangement with in
- FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of a control arrangement according to another aspect of the present invention.
- 4 shows a schematic representation of a transmission of control signals according to a signaling format according to an aspect of the present invention
- FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of a communication frame having control signals according to one aspect of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 shows a serial communication frame having control signals according to a further aspect of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a schematic representation of a unique signal sequence for clock determination according to one aspect of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a control method for series-connected control units according to one aspect of the present invention.
- the first communication direction may be, for example, a downstream communication direction DS and the second communication direction may be an upstream communication direction US.
- the control units SE it is possible to connect the control units SE in series in such a way that they are connected in pairs by means of a single data line segment.
- the control unit SE can be adjusted with respect to their communication direction. This is done according to the invention such that only the downstream direction DS or the upstream direction US is set.
- control unit SE receives data in the downstream direction, it sets the communication interface 101 so that no further data is received in this downstream direction DS. Only if signaling data, ie header data, are received again via the upstream direction US, then the corresponding, left-hand data line segment in question is re-enabled and a re-transmission takes place in the upstream direction US. Thus, it is possible to set a communication direction based on the received control commands by means of the communication interfaces IO1 and IO2.
- the communication interfaces 101, IO2 are input-output interfaces. These are therefore capable of potentially sending in both directions, ie both accepting and sending data. Consequently, the communication interfaces can each be referred to as bidirectional communication interfaces. Thus, there is no directed interface unit. Alternatively, the respective communication interfaces can also be implemented such that it holds a unit for input and a unit for outputting data. As a result, there are two unidirectional interface units.
- the two communication interfaces 101 and IO2 are set so that they either only hear or only write on the corresponding left or right data line segment. Listening refers to waiting for signals or reading signals on the data line.
- this data line segment is disabled in time such that it is only enabled again upon receiving header data from the upstream direction US.
- the right-hand data line segment DS is also enabled and the control signals can be transmitted.
- the internal communication behaves within the control unit SE.
- the communication direction can be set such that after receiving on the corresponding interface a communication direction is blocked or released within the control unit. If, for example, the upstream direction US is blocked, the internal transmission of the control signals can also be blocked together with the external data line segments. Thus, one direction is always disabled for a number of control signals and another opposite direction is enabled.
- the control signals have a corresponding direction switching information, also referred to as signaling data, INIT data, header data or INIT frame on. These data are specified on the basis of a provided signaling format and can have a unique signal sequence for clock determination.
- control arrangement A shows the control arrangement A according to the invention comprising a plurality of control units SE connected in series.
- control units SE that they are always configured the same.
- the last series-connected control unit in the present case the right-hand control unit, has a first communication interface I01 which is actually set up for communication with the left-hand control unit and also has a second communication interface IO2 which would be generally suitable to communicate with another control unit, but this is not used.
- all control units have two communication neighbors or two communication partners, except for the last control unit, which has only the left communication partner.
- a control unit does not simultaneously transmit control signals from the communication interface 101 to the communication interface IO2 in both directions. There is always a transfer from the communication interface IO1 to the communication interface IO2 without a simultaneous return of data from the communication interface IO2 to the communication interface 101.
- the underlying communication direction can also be set within the control unit SE. Accordingly, hardware resources are to be provided only for one direction of communication.
- no communication direction is predetermined by the selection of the reference symbols IO1, IO2.
- the communication direction can either be from 101 to IO2, or from IO2 to IO1.
- the first communication interface may be referred to as 101 or the second communication interface as IO1.
- the first communication interface can be referred to as IO2 or the second communication interface as IO2.
- a communication direction is the communication direction indicated in FIGS. 1 and 2 from left to right, that of the communication interfaces IO1 to IO2 and the communication direction indicated right to left, that of the communication interfaces IO2 to IO1.
- the communication direction always refers to a communication direction within the control units SE or a communication direction between the paired control units SE.
- Fig. 3 shows an aspect of the present invention, according to which the control units SE are designed as control units for light-emitting diodes.
- the control units SE are referred to herein as MLED CTRL.
- existing hardware components can be used again and only the MLED CTRL must be replaced according to the invention.
- the command unit BE can be seen as a microcontroller, which in the present case is connected to three control units. Since the three control units are connected in series, the command unit is directly connected to a control unit and indirectly connected to the other control units.
- the control units may be so-called multi-LED controllers. This is shown in the present FIG. 3 as a MLED CTRL.
- the uniform reference symbol is intended in particular to clarify that the control units are typically configured identically.
- the light-emitting diodes are RGB (ie red, green, blue) light-emitting diodes. These are set up here to set a specific color value by means of a mixing ratio of the individual light-emitting diode units.
- further components are to be provided as needed. For example, it may be necessary to provide a power supply. However, it is also possible to provide these components, such as the power supply, externally and only connect.
- the data line is present as a plurality of data line segments, which are shown as bidirectional arrows SI01, SIO2.
- FIG. 3 shows control units SE according to one aspect of the present invention.
- a control unit SE can also have further components. In particular, this may be a control unit which is set up analogously to the control device MLED CTRL.
- individual light-emitting diode units R, G, B are provided, which are shown schematically as a single light-emitting diode LED. lie. These each emit either red R, green G or blue B light and set a certain mixing ratio of these colors so that a total of any color can be generated by means of the LED. Adjustment of the color values can be achieved, for example, by means of a pulse width modulation PWM.
- PWM pulse width modulation
- other components such as an on / off modulator (not shown) are provided.
- FIG. 4 shows a transmitted signal sequence with control signals in accordance with an aspect of the present invention.
- a signal sequence according to a predetermined signaling format is shown, which is received on a data line segment.
- each of the controllers or smart LED drivers is assigned an individual address. This is done in such a way that the address information is locally stored in the control unit SE and then incremented. In this case, a new control signal is created, which has the incremented address and transmitted to the respective next communication partner.
- This control signal further comprises header information which allows the respective next control unit SE to perform a synchronization of the clock.
- a dynamic assignment of addresses takes place.
- a predetermined number of control signals is transmitted. It can also be seen that the respective control units can go into a so-called IDLE mode in which they do not receive or transmit control signals.
- Fig. 5 shows the structure of control signals according to one aspect of the present invention. This can for example be found in the arrangement shown in Fig. 2 application, wherein the control signals shown are transmitted from left to right.
- the control signals are a data frame which has instructions, an address and useful data. So Each instruction is assigned a signal sequence, as can be seen on the left side.
- the respective control unit receives information as to which command it should now execute.
- dev_adr is a numbering of the control units SE, which are connected in series. In this case, as already described with reference to FIG. 4, it is possible to increment the respective address value and forward it to the next control unit.
- the corresponding address is encoded as a hex code, which in the present case is marked with an x or that this field is not to be interpreted, which in the present case is marked with a.
- the control signal may comprise user data, which is characterized in the present case as data.
- Such payload data may, for example, be a so-called RGB value, as shown here under the section "RGB Mode.”
- the payload data has a color value for color adjustment of a light emitting diode, as shown at the bottom of the present FIG , can be indicated by means of an instruction code, in this case "00000", that no operations should be performed.
- Fig. 6 also shows an aspect of a control signal as used in the invention.
- the control signal has a plurality of control commands.
- a coding of five times a set bit ie "1 1 1 1 1”
- FIG. 7 shows an enlargement of the field described with reference to FIG. 6 above.
- a signal sequence of five bits corresponding to a signaling format according to the present invention.
- the signal sequence "10101” is shown at the top of the corresponding number "5" of the bits in FIG.
- This unique signal sequence indicates that subsequently user data is transmitted. will wear.
- each of the control units which receives such a code or a signal sequence can change the direction and decode the user data arriving thereon.
- the signal sequence "10101" is a unique signal sequence which can be used, for example, to determine the clock.
- FIG. 8 shows a table which displays a semantic or logical number sequence on the left side and the associated bit code on the right side.
- the signal sequence "10101" is the technically transmitted value that stands for the beginning of payload data
- each control unit which identifies this code on a data line segment can assume that
- the code "1 1 111" is an idle code which sets the controllers inactive.
- the controllers may have such a table and may therefore interpret the particular instruction code.
- control signals are received on one of the two communication interfaces. It is checked iteratively, whether it is control signals, which cause a reversal of communication direction. If this is not the case, the information is always forwarded and not processed. Corresponding control signals have been described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 8. If a corresponding header information is now received in method step 00, then in a subsequent method step 101, a block of the current communication direction and a Unlock the previously locked communication direction done. Thus, in method step 101, a direction reversal takes place, as has already been described.
- the received control signals can be passed on, for example in adapted form.
- receiving 00 and outputting data 102 always take place in the same communication direction.
- the last series-connected control unit which receives data 100 and, if present, reverses direction 101, but typically does not immediately send data according to step 102, but first inverts and then transmits the direction.
- the method step 100 it is advantageous to iteratively run through the method steps 100, 101 and 102 in such a way that data is received in each of the control units, then it is checked whether the directional changes can be taken from the control commands and, if appropriate, to invert the direction and output data or If there is no change of direction, continue to maintain the communication direction.
- the method step 100 is iterated in such a way until an inversion information is present in the respective control unit.
- a particularly efficient control method or a control arrangement which enables a particularly efficient activation of, for example, light-emitting diodes.
- a corresponding protocol can be provided as a computer program product.
- the invention is directed to the individual control units, as shown for example with reference to FIG. 1.
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