Adaptive Luminaire with Variable Luminous Intensity Distribution

Abstract

The field of indoor lighting covers a wide range of lighting uses with varying requirements for lighting conditions to be satisfied by properly selected lighting equipment. The need to frequently change the arrangement of useable areas entails the necessity to adapt the lighting to new requirements. A good solution for reducing costs and saving time is a luminaire adjusting the luminous flux and spatial luminous intensity distribution in a wide range. The authors present the concept of an adaptive luminaire and its construction assumptions. In addition, the results of studies on the development of the concept are shown together with conditions and limitations that influenced the construction of the luminaire. The analysis of the surface of the moveable reflector is presented, and the results of testing the luminaire prototype are compared with the results of simulation tests.