Abstract:
An elevator system having cars in service at top and bottom in a single shaft with efficient group control. The elevator system is provided with a shaft assignment finalizing unit for selecting a shaft and a car to be assigned to a new call, and a reassigning unit for reassigning a car as necessary when a new call occurs after assignment is performed. After tentative assignment is finalized, if a new call is generated before a time for finalizing a stop of a tentatively assigned car is reached, then the tentative assignment is reviewed. If it is determined that reassigning of cars is necessary for a call, then the reassigning unit changes car assignment to the call. Assignment of a car is finalized by the car assignment finalizing unit, and information regarding a final decision is displayed by a display controller.
Abstract:
In a vertically movable elevator group management control apparatus for control of a plurality of transversely shiftable cars among plural shafts, control is done by storing route data with respect to each said car, generating target floor data including a target floor, based on car call data obtained in correspondence with each said car and station call data as obtained correspondingly to each floor, estimating the time taken for said car to reach said target floor, based on at least said route data, said target floor data and said car call data, and assigning a certain car to a certain floor call, based on the estimated arrival time.
Abstract:
A group controller for controlling elevator cars in a building having a plurality of floors includes a traffic and traffic rate estimator for providing fuzzy estimates of traffic and traffic rate; a closed loop fuzzy logic controller for providing a control parameter in response to the fuzzy estimates of traffic and traffic rate and in response to an elevator control system output variable; and an elevator dispatcher for controlling the operation of the elevator cars during single source traffic conditions in response to the control parameter.
Abstract:
A group controller for controlling elevator cars in a building having a plurality of floors includes an elevator dispatcher for controlling the operation of the elevator cars during single source traffic conditions, the elevator dispatcher having a constraint for limiting car assignments in response to the constraint; and an adaptive contraint generator for modifying a value of the constraint in response to an elevator control system output variable. In one embodiment, the group controller includes a traffic and traffic rate estimator for providing fuzzy estimates of traffic and traffic rate; a fuzzy logic controller for providing a control parameter in response to the fuzzy estimates of traffic and traffic rate, the control parameter having a constraint for limiting a value of the control parameter; an adaptive constraint generator for modifying a value of the constraint in response to an elevator control system output variable; and an elevator dispatcher for controlling the operation of the elevator cars during single source traffic conditions in response to the control parameter.
Abstract:
An elevator control system employing a micro-processor-based group controller (FIG. 2) which communicates with the cars (3, 4) of the elevator system to determine conditions 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, to provide assignments of the hall calls to the cars based on the summation for each car, with respect to each call, a weighted summation of a plurality of system response factors, some indicative, and some not, of conditions of the car irrespective of the call to be assigned, assigning "bonuses" and "penalties" to them in the weighted summation. In the invention, rather than a set of unvarying bonuses and penalties being assigned based on the relative system response factors, the assigned bonuses and penalties are varied based on the perceived intensity of traffic, as measured by, for example, a past average waiting time and the elapsed time since registration of the hall call, a selected past five minute average waiting time being exemplary. Exemplary apparatus (FIGS. 1 and 2) and a logic flow diagram (FIG. 3) illustrate a specific manner of assigning calls to cars. Tables set forth exemplary varying bonus and penalty values to be assigned, depending on the ratio of the hall call registration time to the selected average hall call waiting time (Tables 1 and 2) or on their differences (Table 3).
Abstract:
An elevator dispatching method which estimates the time of arrival (ETA) of each car at the floor of a hall call to be assigned. A building profile of average door cycle times per floor, over predetermined periods of the day, is tabulated and used in the ETA calculations, to provide more accurate ETA values and thus a lower average call waiting time.
Abstract:
A plurality of floors served by elevator cars are scanned by direction to detect car positions and hall calls. For each of the cars, a predetermined number is counted up for each scan slot after detection of a car position to determine the service load of each car to be borne before arrival at each floor. When a hall call is detected by scanning, a car with minimum service load in the related slot is selected and the hall call is allotted to that car. When the failure of a car to run to an end floor is predicted in counting the service load of the car, switch is made to count down in response to directional reversal when the scanning has reached the end floor. At the time of subsequent detection of an allotted hall call by scanning, switching is again made to count up, thus determining a proper service load of the cars.
Abstract:
An elevator car dispatching system (100) comprises an elevator control module (102) that controls operation of at least one elevator car. A position monitoring mechanism (104) is coupled to a first elevator car among the at least one elevator car. The position monitoring mechanism (104) is configured to output a position signal in response to movement of the first elevator car. The elevator car dispatching system (100) further comprises an electronic dispatch module (106) that is in electrical communication with the elevator control module (102) and the position monitoring mechanism (104). The dispatch module (106) is configured to determine a vertical position of the first elevator car based on the position signal. The dispatch module (106) is further configured to output a dispatch command signal commanding the elevator control module (102) to adjust operation of the first elevator car based on the vertical position.