公开(公告)号：JPWO2012101769A1

公开(公告)日：2014-06-30

申请号：JP2012554560

申请日：2011-01-26

Applicant: 三菱電機株式会社

Inventor： 由雅 小場 ,  由雅 小場

IPC: B66B1/18

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/103 ,  B66B2201/211 ,  B66B2201/233 ,  B66B2201/403

Abstract: 割当かごの決定後も必要に応じてその変更を行うことができ、利用者に快適なサービスを提供することができるエレベーターの群管理システムを提供する。本群管理システムは、利用者がエレベーターへの乗車前に乗場行先呼びを登録するための呼び登録装置と、エレベーターのかご位置を検出するかご位置検出部と、登録されている乗場行先呼びを、各エレベーターについて記憶する呼び登録記憶部とを備える。そして、呼び登録記憶部に記憶されている既登録の乗場行先呼びと同じ内容の乗場行先呼びが呼び登録装置から新規に登録された場合に、非割当かごが呼び登録装置の設置階に既に到着していれば、新規登録の乗場行先呼びをその非割当かごに割り当てる。

公开(公告)号：US20110284329A1

公开(公告)日：2011-11-24

申请号：US13142183

申请日：2009-12-25

Applicant: Masami Nakagawa

Inventor： Masami Nakagawa

IPC: B66B1/18

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/102 ,  B66B2201/211 ,  B66B2201/216 ,  B66B2201/233 ,  B66B2201/235 ,  B66B2201/243 ,  B66B2201/402

Abstract: Provided are a group control method and a group control device capable of efficiently controlling the operation of elevators in diversified traffic situations and under a variety of specification conditions required for a group management system. A plurality of elevators are placed in service for a plurality of floors, an evaluation index for a newly made hall call is calculated, and the best suited car is selected and assigned to the hall call based on the evaluation index in the group control method of elevators. A waiting time expectation value of all passengers on all floors for each direction, either that have already occurred or that are expected to occur within a predetermined time period, is taken as the evaluation index, the waiting time expectation value being the expectation value for the sum or the average of waiting time.

Abstract translation: 提供一种能够有效地控制电梯在多样化交通状况下的操作的组控制方法和组控制装置，以及组管理系统所需的各种规格条件。 多台电梯被投入服务于多层楼层，计算新成立的门厅呼叫的评价指标，根据组控制方法中的评价指标，选择最适合轿厢并将其分配给门厅呼梯 电梯。 作为评价指标，将已经发生或预期在预定时间段内发生的每个方向的所有楼层的所有乘客的等待时间期望值作为评估指标，等待时间期望值为 总和或等待时间的平均值。

公开(公告)号：US5808247A

公开(公告)日：1998-09-15

申请号：US568894

申请日：1995-11-30

Applicant: Kandasamy Thangavelu

Inventor： Kandasamy Thangavelu

IPC: B66B1/20 ,  B66B1/24 ,  B66B1/18

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/102 ,  B66B2201/211 ,  B66B2201/222 ,  B66B2201/225 ,  B66B2201/226 ,  B66B2201/233 ,  B66B2201/402 ,  B66B2201/403

Abstract: A system for controlling elevator cars in a building having a plurality of floors includes a group controller for controlling operation of the elevator cars. The group controller predicts lobby single source traffic for determined periods. When the predicted traffic is below certain limit, cars are assigned to a lobby hall call on demand after hall call registration. When the predicted traffic is above certain limit, cars are assigned to the lobby hall call at intervals. Accordingly, car assignment is scheduled at those intervals. The schedule interval is varied based on predicted traffic and predicted round trip time of the cars. The cars are assigned to hall calls if they arrive within a schedule window. The schedule window comprises a lower and an upper tolerance that are selected around a scheduled time.

Abstract translation: 用于控制具有多个楼层的建筑物中的电梯轿厢的系统包括用于控制电梯轿厢的操作的组控制器。 组控制器预测大堂单一来源流量在确定的时间段内。 当预测的交通量低于一定限度时，在门厅通话登记后，汽车按需分配到大厅门厅。 当预测的交通流量超过某一限度时，汽车会间隔分配给大厅门厅通话。 因此，以这些间隔安排汽车分配。 调度间隔根据车辆的预计交通量和预测的往返时间而变化。 如果汽车在时间表窗口中到达，则将其分配给门厅呼叫。 调度窗口包括围绕预定时间选择的较低和较高公差。

公开(公告)号：US5767461A

公开(公告)日：1998-06-16

申请号：US576937

申请日：1995-12-22

Applicant: Masami Nakagawa ,  Kenji Sasaki ,  Sandor Markon ,  Ichiro Nagashima ,  Takeshi Midoritani ,  Tomoaki Tanabe ,  Naoki Ohta

Inventor： Masami Nakagawa ,  Kenji Sasaki ,  Sandor Markon ,  Ichiro Nagashima ,  Takeshi Midoritani ,  Tomoaki Tanabe ,  Naoki Ohta

IPC: B66B1/20 ,  B66B1/24 ,  B66B1/18

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/102 ,  B66B2201/211 ,  B66B2201/214 ,  B66B2201/215 ,  B66B2201/216 ,  B66B2201/222 ,  B66B2201/233 ,  B66B2201/402

Abstract: An elevator group supervisory control system for selecting the most suitable car among a plurality of elevators, when a hall call is made, to assign to the hall call, comprising: temporary assigning means for temporarily assigning the car by a conventional method such as a fuzzy group supervisory control based on group data representing states of the elevator system at the moment when a new hall call is made; and a neural net for receiving numerical values converted from group data including the result of judgment of the temporary assigning means and outputting an assignment fitness of each elevator. It decides the most suitable elevator from the output pattern of the neural net to assign to the hall call.

Abstract translation: 一种电梯组管理系统，用于在进行门厅呼叫时，在多台电梯中选择最合适的轿厢来分配给门厅呼叫，其特征在于，包括：暂时分配装置，用于通过常规方法例如模糊 基于表示在进行新的门厅呼叫时的电梯系统的状态的组数据的组管理控制; 以及用于接收从包括临时分配装置的判断结果的组数据转换的数值并输出每个电梯的分配适应度的神经网络。 它从神经网络的输出模式中决定最合适的电梯，以分配给门厅呼叫。

公开(公告)号：US5750946A

公开(公告)日：1998-05-12

申请号：US564527

申请日：1995-11-30

Applicant: Kandasamy Thangavelu

Inventor： Kandasamy Thangavelu

IPC: B66B1/18 ,  B66B1/20 ,  B66B1/24 ,  B66B1/34

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/102 ,  B66B2201/211 ,  B66B2201/222 ,  B66B2201/225 ,  B66B2201/226 ,  B66B2201/233 ,  B66B2201/402 ,  B66B2201/403

Abstract: A system including a group controller for controlling the dispatching of elevator cars in a building. The group controller operates by using control parameters stored in its memory. The system records car loads of cars leaving the lobby and the time intervals between their departures and uses fuzzy logic to categorize the car loads and intervals into fuzzy sets. The system determines the lobby traffic and traffic rate using fuzzy relations among car loads, departure intervals, lobby traffic and traffic rate and the fuzzy logic rules. The group controller collects traffic data during operation. The system runs simulations off-line, after single source traffic periods, using the specified control parameter values. The system collects and analyzes performance data to identify significant deviations from acceptable performances. New sets of control parameters are selected using appropriate specified rules. The process of simulation and learning new values of control parameters are repeated until acceptable performance is achieved. The selected parameters are used in system operation. The group controller repeats this process of simulation and learning the parameters periodically.

Abstract translation: 一种包括用于控制建筑物中的电梯轿厢的调度的组控制器的系统。 组控制器通过使用存储在其存储器中的控制参数进行操作。 系统记录离开大厅的汽车的负载和其离开之间的时间间隔，并使用模糊逻辑将汽车负载和间隔分类为模糊集。 系统使用汽车负载，出发间隔，大厅流量和流量速率之间的模糊关系以及模糊逻辑规则来确定大厅流量和流量速率。 组控制器在操作期间收集流量数据。 系统使用指定的控制参数值，在单个源流量周期之后离线运行模拟。 系统收集和分析性能数据，以确定与可接受性能的显着偏差。 使用适当的指定规则选择新的控制参数集。 重复控制参数的新值的仿真和学习过程，直到达到可接受的性能。 所选参数用于系统操作。 组控制器重复这个仿真过程并定期学习参数。

公开(公告)号：US5146053A

公开(公告)日：1992-09-08

申请号：US661966

申请日：1991-02-28

Applicant: Bruce A. Powell ,  John N. Williams

Inventor： Bruce A. Powell ,  John N. Williams

IPC: B66B1/18 ,  B66B1/20 ,  B66B1/24

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/102 ,  B66B2201/211 ,  B66B2201/222 ,  B66B2201/233 ,  B66B2201/301 ,  B66B2201/303 ,  B66B2201/305 ,  B66B2201/403

Abstract: The present invention is directed to assigning an elevator car in response to a hall call, based on a series of bonuses and penalties and remaining response time, defined herein as an estimation of the amount of time required for an elevator car to reach the floor at which the hall call is registered, given the car calls and hall calls to which the elevator car is committed. Upon the registration of a hall call, a relative system response (RSR) value for each elevator car is determined based on a series of bonuses and penalties. Additionally, a remaining response time (RRT) value for each car is determined. The RRT value of the elevator car having the most favorable RSR value is compared with the RRT value of the elevator car having the lowest RRT value. Based on this comparison, one of the two elevator cars will be assigned to service the hall call. The present invention preferably assigns the hall call to the elevator car which has the lowest RSR value, except where there exists another car which could reach the floor registering the hall call at least a predetermined amount of time before the car having the most favorable RSR value.

Abstract translation: 本发明旨在基于一系列的奖金和惩罚以及剩余响应时间来响应于门厅呼叫来分配电梯轿厢，这里定义为电梯轿厢到达地板所需的时间量的估计 给予电梯轿厢的轿厢呼叫和门厅呼叫，门厅呼叫被登记。 在门厅呼叫的登记时，基于一系列奖金和惩罚来确定每个电梯轿厢的相对系统响应（RSR）值。 另外，确定每个轿厢的剩余响应时间（RRT）值。 具有最佳RSR值的电梯轿厢的RRT值与具有最低RRT值的电梯轿厢的RRT值进行比较。 基于此比较，两台电梯轿厢之一将被分配到门厅呼叫。 本发明优选地将门厅呼叫分配给具有最低RSR值的电梯轿厢，除了在具有最有利的RSR值的轿厢之前，至少存在预定时间量的另一辆可能到达登机门厅呼叫的轿厢 。

公开(公告)号：US5065846A

公开(公告)日：1991-11-19

申请号：US464524

申请日：1990-01-12

Applicant: Joris Schroder

Inventor： Joris Schroder

IPC: B66B1/18 ,  B66B1/20 ,  B66B1/24

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/103 ,  B66B2201/211 ,  B66B2201/222 ,  B66B2201/233

Abstract: A group control for an elevator system assigns immediately destination calls which were entered at a floor lying behind the car in the direction of travel of the car and for a floor which lies ahead of the car. The group control includes a call memory having a first register for storing the calls of like direction of travel entered ahead of the car, a second register for storing the calls of opposite direction of travel and a third register for storing the calls of like direction of travel entered behind the car. A control circuit is activated each time a call is entered such that a call of the same direction of travel is written, according to its position with respect to the car, into the first or third register. The allocated calls of the third register are transferred into the second register on the first change in direction of travel of the car and into the first register on the second change in direction of travel so that they can be detected by a selector addressing the call memory.

Abstract translation: 用于电梯系统的组控制分配在轿厢行进方向和位于轿厢前方的地板上输入的位于汽车后面的地板上的目的地呼叫。 组控制包括具有第一寄存器的呼叫存储器，用于存储在轿厢前面输入的类似行进方向的呼叫，用于存储相反行进方向的呼叫的第二寄存器和用于存储相同方向的呼叫的第三寄存器 旅行进入车后。 每次进入呼叫时，控制电路被激活，使得根据其相对于轿厢的位置将相同行驶方向的呼叫写入第一或第三寄存器。 第三个寄存器的分配的呼叫在轿厢行驶方向第一次改变时被转移到第二个寄存器中，并且在第二个行进方向上的变化中被转移到第一个寄存器中，这样它们可以由寻址呼叫存储器的选择器来检测 。

公开(公告)号：US4760896A

公开(公告)日：1988-08-02

申请号：US102587

申请日：1987-09-29

Applicant: Toru Yamaguchi

Inventor： Toru Yamaguchi

IPC: B66B1/20 ,  B66B1/24 ,  B66B1/18

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/102 ,  B66B2201/211 ,  B66B2201/214 ,  B66B2201/233 ,  B66B2201/235 ,  B66B2201/403 ,  Y10S706/90 ,  Y10S706/91

Abstract: An apparatus for performing a group control on elevators is disclosed, by which a total operation of the elevators for respective floors of building is controlled. This apparatus includes condition-instruction table which contains a plurality of predetermined control rules being defined by given conditions and given instructions. The apparatus also includes an elevator controller for detecting, in accordance with a specific rule selected from the control rules, a degree of establishment of the given conditions to provide a detected condition, and for generating, in accordance with the detected condition, an elevator control instruction used for performing the group control.

Abstract translation: 公开了一种用于对电梯进行组群控制的装置，由此控制建筑物各楼层的电梯的总体操作。 该装置包括条件指令表，其包含由给定条件和给定指令定义的多个预定控制规则。 该装置还包括电梯控制器，用于根据从控制规则中选出的特定规则，检测给定条件的建立程度以提供检测条件，并根据检测到的状况来检测电梯控制 用于执行组控制的指令。

公开(公告)号：US4323142A

公开(公告)日：1982-04-06

申请号：US99945

申请日：1979-12-03

Applicant: Joseph Bittar

Inventor： Joseph Bittar

IPC: B66B1/18 ,  B66B1/20 ,  B66B1/24

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B2201/102 ,  B66B2201/211 ,  B66B2201/233 ,  B66B2201/243 ,  B66B2201/301 ,  B66B2201/303 ,  B66B2201/403 ,  Y02B50/122

Abstract: An elevator control system employs a microprocessor-based group controller which communicates with the cars of the elevator system to determine the condition of the cars, and responds to hall calls registered at a plurality of landings in the building serviced by the cars under control of the group controller, on a cyclic basis which recurs several times per second, to assign every unanswered hall call to a car deemed best suited for response to that call, in each cycle, based upon the information provided by the car to the group controller within that cycle of operation. In any cycle in which a call is assigned to a car other than a car to which the call had previously been assigned, the assignment of the call to the previous car is nullified. At the end of each cycle, any car which indicates that its committable position coincides with the floor of a hall call which has been assigned to it will receive a stop command. In the assignment of calls to cars, preference is given to any car which previously had a call, although the preference is relative and not absolute. Exemplary elevator apparatus, signal processing apparatus, and logic flow diagrams are disclosed to illustrate the specific manner of assigning calls to cars on a continuously updated basis, and to illustrate the environment in which the invention may be practiced.1. Technical FieldThis invention relates to elevator systems, and more particularly to the response to hall calls by a selected one of a group of elevators serving floor landings of a building in common, on a continuously updated basis.Background ArtAs elevator systems have become more sophisticated, including a large number of elevators operating as a group to service a large number of floors, the need developed for determining the manner in which calls for service in either the up or down direction registered at any of the floor landings of the building are to be answered by the respective elevator cars. The most common form of elevator system group control divides the floors of the building into zones, there being one or several floors in each zone, there being approximately the same number of zones as there are cars in the elevator system which can respond to group-controlled service of floor landing calls. Typical operation of such systems forces a car into any zone which does not have an elevator in it, and causes the car to attempt to respond to all the calls registered within the zone. However, the answering of any calls by the car, and the demands made by the passengers in registering car calls will normally carry the car outside of the zone; also, if the car commences traveling upwardly to answer up calls, it is unavailable to answer down calls. For that reason, systems operating under a zone-controlled mode of operation require a wide variety of additional features. For instance, if the calls in a zone are not answerable by the car in that zone, a car may be borrowed from another zone which has no calls; or, if one zone has no car in it, and no car is available for assignment to it, a zone of lesser importance might lose its car in favor of the zone under consideration. In the zone-controlled systems, it frequently occurs that some calls are not answered at all after an impermissible delay; therefore, such systems frequently have one or two modes of backup operation, ultimately resulting in a non-zone type of a flat command to a car to answer a call which has been registered for an impermissible time.A more recent innovation has been the assignment of calls to cars by scanning all unassigned registered hall calls, comparing the location and direction of each such unassigned call with the present conditions of each of the cars, including the car location and direction of travel and the number of stops which the car will make between its present position and the position of the call, and assigning such call, absolutely, to the car which is estimated, in the first examination of each registered hall call, to be able to reach the floor landing of the hall call the quickest, based upon a scheme of operation which considers only approximate travel time and number of stops, along with car travel direction and car location. Such system, however, has a basic disadvantage that the conditions upon which the call has been made may change radically long before the call is answered by the car to which it has been assigned. For instance, a deliveryman may prop the door of the car open while he unloads packages, thus unduly delaying the car; or, at one of its in-between stops, the car may pick up an excessive number of passengers, who register a large number of hall calls that were not considered during the original assignment. In such case, as in the case of zone-controlled group systems, it is necessary to provide several levels of backup modes of operation. For instance, a first level backup mode may reenter the call for reassignment if it is not answered within a first predetermined time interval. And if that fails, and the call is still unanswered after a second, longer predetermined interval, then an absolute priority assignment of a car to answer that call may be required. Or, assigned calls may be reevaluated with respect to reassignment to other cars; but the comparison is made with respect to a previously determined response time for the first car to which the call was assigned. Such response time does not reflect current conditions appertaining to the previous car.In either of these mode of operation, the facts that the primary mode of operation (zone or call assignment) is upset by anything other than an ideal pattern of traffic flow, necessarily requiring the backup modes, the change of the system from operating in the primary mode to backup mode resulting in further disruption, and further requirement for an additional backup mode, indicate that such systems fail to provide the desired service.The zone type of operation does not take into account conditions within the building at any time. The assignment of calls-to-cars mode which has been known in the prior art assumes that it can anticipate conditions, assign calls on that basis, but is incapable of truly responding to actual conditions of the building insofar as assigning calls to cars is concerned. And, both types of systems are non-dynamic until something goes wrong (undue delay in responding to a call) and then shift into other non-dynamic modes, which still do not take into account the actual, current conditions in the building, but respond in a reactionary sort of a way to a condition which is deemed to be exceptional and unacceptable with respect to the principal mode of operation, thus causing still further disruption.Both of the types of systems described hereinbefore are based upon the relationship between a registered call and a car, be that relationship an estimated time for response or a zone within which each is located. In neither of these cases are the actual current conditions of the system continuously reevaluated with respect to all unanswered hall calls.DISCLOSURE OF INVENTIONOjbects of the present invention include provision of an elevator control system in which all unanswered hall calls are assigned to cars on a current, dynamic basis, which takes into account actual, current conditions of the system.According to the present invention, all unanswered hall calls registered at a plurality of landings in a multi-elevator system are repetitively assigned to cars on a cyclic basis recurring several times per second on the basis of conditions of each car relative to each such unanswered hall call, including the floor landing and direction of the unanswered hall call under consideration and including service to be performed by each car in advance of its ability to service the hall call under consideration, as indicated within each cycle in which such call is assigned to any car; after making the assignment of any hall call in any cycle, the assignment of such hall call made to any car in a cycle next preceding such cycle is removed from such car if the call is assigned to a different car during such cycle; at the end of each cycle, a stop command is issued to any car to which the committable floor position coincides with the landing of a hall call assigned to it.In accordance with other aspects of the present invention, in each cycle of assigning calls to cars based upon conditions of the car relative to the call in question, preference is given to a car to which the call was assigned in a next preceding cycle; the preference may be based upon a weighted factor, when call assignments are made on the basis of weighted factors; if a weighted perference factor is employed in practicing the invention, the weighted preference factor may have a value on the same order of magnitude as it takes for an elevator to service from one to ten call landings, or it may be based on a reasonable time for a call to be unanswerable before desiring reassignment, or it may relate to a delay in servicing said call on the order of some part of a minute.The present invention provides for assignment of calls to cars based upon current information, at a rate of updating which is serveral times faster than the rate at which an elevator car may pass a landing at high speed; the conditions considered in assigning the calls to the cars are current, being updated in every cycle; the assignment of a call to a car is based upon the best assignment possible, in any cycle, which recur several times per second, thereby ensuring that as conditions change, the assignment may also change, if desirable, to provide proper service to the call while at the same maintaining other factors of overall system response. Provision of preference for a call assigned to a car to be reassigned to the same car permits control over race conditions so that cars are not unnecessarily started nor alternatively having a hall call assigned to them, which only one ultimately will answer. The invention provides, for the first time, a total capability for rapidly updating hall call assignments without any of the adverse effects which would otherwise be created.The foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent in the light of the following detailed description of an exemplary embodiment thereof, as illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

Abstract translation: 电梯控制系统采用基于微处理器的组控制器，其与电梯系统的轿厢进行通信以确定轿厢的状况，并且响应在由轿厢服务的建筑物中的多个着陆处登记的门厅呼叫， 组控制器，以每秒重复数次的循环为基础，根据汽车向组控制器提供的信息，在每个周期内将每个未应答的门厅呼叫分配给被认为最适合于响应该呼叫的汽车 操作周期。 在呼叫分配给除了先前已经被分配给呼叫的汽车之外的汽车的任何循环中，对前一辆汽车的呼叫分配无效。 在每个周期结束时，任何指示其提交位置与已分配给其的门厅呼叫的底线一致的任何车将接收停止命令。 在拨打汽车的电话中，优先考虑以前有电话的任何车，尽管偏好是相对的，而不是绝对的。 公开了示例性的电梯装置，信号处理装置和逻辑流程图，以说明在连续更新的基础上分配对汽车的呼叫的具体方式，并且说明可以实践本发明的环境。

公开(公告)号：WO2015180967A1

公开(公告)日：2015-12-03

申请号：PCT/EP2015/060624

申请日：2015-05-13

Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AG ,  THYSSENKRUPP AG

Inventor： SMITH, Rory ,  GERSTENMEYER, Stefan ,  SCHNEIDER, Stefan

IPC: B66B1/24 ,  B66B3/00

CPC classification number: B66B1/2458 ,  B66B1/468 ,  B66B3/006 ,  B66B9/00 ,  B66B2201/103 ,  B66B2201/233

Abstract: The invention relates to a control system for an elevator system comprising a plurality of elevator cars (11 - 15) and an elevator control for assigning elevator cars to destination calls, wherein the elevator control is adapted, in a first mode of operation, to determine and assign an elevator car (11 - 15), which the passenger shall use, based on at least one elevator car determination criterion, information indicating the elevator car thus assigned not being communicated to the passenger car until or until shortly before the assigned elevator car (11 - 15) arrives at the entrance landing.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及一种用于电梯系统的控制系统，包括多个电梯轿厢（11-15）和用于将电梯轿厢分配到目的地呼叫的电梯控制装置，其中电梯控制在第一操作模式中被适配以确定 并且基于至少一个电梯轿厢判定标准，指定乘客将使用的电梯轿厢（11-15），所述电梯轿厢在所分配的电梯轿厢之前或之前不久将被分配为不被传送到乘客的电梯轿厢 （11 - 15）抵达入口处。