The development of an automated lighting control system for special purpose objects

The article proposes the development of an automated lighting control system for special purpose objects, for example, a theater stage or a concert hall. Stage lighting plays an important role in the respective art and lamps are one of the types of lighting devices. The developed system is focused on modern LED lamps, which have the following advantages compared to traditional lamps: much lower power consumption, much longer average «life», much less heat dissipation. The system was built with the use of a microcontroller, which made it possible to improve its characteristics based on the well-known and mastered microcontroller architecture by supplementing it with specialized blocks implemented taking into account the features of the control object. A structural and circuit electrical scheme of the lighting control system has been developed. The basis of the scheme is the Atmel ATmega162 microcontroller of the AVR family, which has the widest set of functions. An algorithm for the lighting control system was also developed and a program for a microcontroller using the C programming language was written.