The Illuminator was a sensor network-based intelligent light control system for entertainment and media production, created as a collaboration between UCLA’s Networked and Embedded Systems Laboratory (NESL) and UCLA REMAP.
Unlike most sensor network applications that focused on sensing alone, a distinctive aspect of Illuminator was that it closed the loop from light sensing to control of lights. To satisfy the high-performance light sensing requirements in entertainment and media production applications, the system used Illumimote, a multi-modal and high fidelity light sensor module well-suited to wireless sensor networks. The Illuminator system provided a toolset to characterize lights, generate desired lighting effects for user constraints expressed in a formal language, and help set up lights. Given light configuration, Illuminator computed at run-time optimal light settings using an optimization framework based on a genetic algorithm.
REMAP: Jeff Burke, Pablo Gutierrez, Vids Samanta.
NESL: Jonathan Friedman, Heemin Park, Mani Srivastava.
2006-2007.