LiDAR mirror control method and device and LiDAR

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11536954-B2
Application number	US-202217707931-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 29, 2022
Priority date	Sep 30, 2019
Publication date	Dec 27, 2022
Grant date	Dec 27, 2022

Abstract

Embodiments of this application disclose a mirror control method and device and a LiDAR, pertaining to the field of LiDAR. The method includes: outputting a control signal configured to control a mirror to scan; detecting a feedback signal of the scanning mirror; determining an actual amplitude gain of the mirror based on the feedback signal, and determining an error of the actual amplitude gain relative to a preset amplitude gain threshold; and determining a frequency adjustment based on the error, adjusting frequency based on the frequency adjustment, and obtaining an output signal. In the embodiments of this application, stability of a scanning angle of the mirror can be maintained when resonance frequency of the mirror deviates.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a mirror, comprising:
outputting a control signal configured to control the mirror to scan;
detecting a feedback signal of the scanning mirror;
determining an actual amplitude gain of the mirror based on the feedback signal;
obtaining a preset amplitude threshold and a preset pulse width threshold, wherein the preset pulse width threshold is a pulse width corresponding to the preset amplitude threshold when the mirror works on preset resonance frequency;
determining an actual pulse width corresponding to the feedback signal based on the preset amplitude threshold;
comparing the actual pulse width with the preset pulse width threshold, to obtain the error;
determining a frequency adjustment based on the error, adjusting frequency based on the frequency adjustment, and obtaining an output signal.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the outputting a control signal comprises:
generating a single-frequency signal; and
performing amplification processing on the single-frequency signal, to obtain the control signal.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the error is an absolute value of a difference between the actual pulse width and the preset pulse width threshold.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the determining a frequency adjustment based on the error comprises:
obtaining a last error and a sign of a last frequency adjustment that are pre-stored;
determining whether a current error is greater than the last error;
in response to the current error being greater than the last error, taking an opposite of the sign of the last frequency adjustment, to serve as a sign of a current frequency adjustment; or
in response to the current error being not greater than the last error, using the sign of the last frequency adjustment as a sign of a current frequency adjustment; and
storing the current error and the sign of the current frequency adjustment.

5. The control method of claim 4 , wherein before the determining a frequency adjustment based on the error, the method further comprises:
determining that the error is greater than a preset error threshold.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the determining a frequency adjustment based on the error comprises:
determining the frequency adjustment corresponding to the error based on a linear closed-loop control algorithm.

7. A device for controlling a mirror, comprising:
a signal generator, configured to output a control signal, wherein the control signal is used to control the mirror to scan;
a signal detector, configured to detect a feedback signal of the scanning mirror;
a signal comparator, configured to determine an actual amplitude gain of the mirror based on the feedback signal, and obtain a preset amplitude threshold and a preset pulse width threshold, wherein the preset pulse width threshold is a pulse width corresponding to the preset amplitude threshold when the mirror works on preset resonance frequency, and determine an actual pulse width corresponding to the feedback signal based on the preset amplitude threshold, and compare the actual pulse width with the preset pulse width threshold, to obtain the error; and
a linear controller, configured to determine a frequency adjustment based on the error, adjust frequency based on the frequency adjustment, and obtain an output signal.

8. The device of claim 7 , wherein the linear controller is a proportional-integral controller.

9. A LiDAR, comprising a mirror and a device for controlling the mirror according to claim 7 .

Assignees

• Suteng Innovation Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Shaodong
• Zheng Jingyang

Classifications

• G05B13/04

  involving the use of models or simulators · CPC title

• G01S7/4817

  relating to scanning · CPC title

• G02B26/10 Primary

  Scanning systems · CPC title

• G05B1/02

  for comparing analogue signals (circuits for comparing the phase or frequency of two mutually-independent oscillations H03D13/00) · CPC title

• G05B11/011

  details of the correcting means · CPC title