Abstract:
An elevator control apparatus for moving free elevator cages to optimal stand-by floors determined according to a plurality of fuzzy rules of if-then format. A learning function is employed for altering the parameters of the fuzzy rules based on statistics of past traffic patterns over a pre-determined time period. Free elevator cages are detected by an operation control element and then moved to optimal stand-by floors. A stand-by control element responsive to fuzzy rules generates a signal directed to the operation control element for initiating movement of the free elevator cages.
Abstract:
A control system for operating a transportation system including a plurality of vehicles, such as elevators, is disclosed wherein a history of the past performance of the transportation system is stored. This history is analyzed by a digital computer, and the operating mode of the transportation system is changed in accordance with the analysis in order to optimize the performance of the system.
Abstract:
In an approach for determining an optimal path for an elevator, a processor receives information, wherein the information includes social media data associated with a user and calendar entries associated with the user, indicating one or more locations within a building. A processor analyzes the received information. A processor determines a location to send an elevator within the building to minimize movement of the elevator, based on the analyzed information. A processor causes the elevator to move to the location.
Abstract:
In an elevator control device that transfers an elevator to pause operation when predetermined pause conditions are met, the elevator operation can be changed over properly according to the call cutoff state without decreasing the building security. This control device includes a pause operation selecting means and a car call cutoff means. The pause operation selecting means stops a car at a predetermined pause floor, closes a door after door opening motion, and pauses the elevator by selecting pause operation if predetermined pause conditions are met. The car call cutoff means prohibits a car call from being registered from a car call button in the car by cutting off the car call. The configuration is made such that when the car call to the pause floor has been cut off by the car call cutoff means, even if the predetermined pause conditions are met, the elevator is not transferred to pause operation.
Abstract:
According to the present invention, when a parking floor is set as a remote-hall-operating-panel-installed floor, the parking floor can be canceled. As a result of this, during the movement of a passenger from a remote hall operating panel to an elevator hall, it is possible to prevent a car from being on standby at a remote-hall-operating-panel-installed floor. Therefore, because a car to which a remote hall registration has been assigned can effectively use the moving time of the passenger and hence it is possible to improve the operation efficiency of the whole group supervisory control system. Furthermore, it is possible to reduce useless runs and hence to reduce power consumption.
Abstract:
An elevator group management control device that can set standby actions executable when services of one-shaft multicar system elevators have been completed. The elevator group management control device includes a determination section which, for plural elevators including a one-shaft multicar system elevator in which plural cars are arranged in a same shaft, determines whether services to elevator calls have been completed and an instruction section in which, in a case services of plural cars of the one-shaft multicar system elevator have been completed, as floors where plural cars in question are on standby, a pattern is set among a first pattern in which a main floor in the vicinity of a bottom floor and a floor lower than the main floor are set, a second pattern in which the main floor and an upper floor are set, and a third pattern in which upper floors are set.
Abstract:
An elevator group supervisory control apparatus is obtained which can achieve efficient group supervisory control while preventing or reducing the possibility of collision and the safe stopping of an upper car and a lower car in one and the same shaft as much as possible. The apparatus includes a hall destination floor registration device 4 that is installed in each hall and has a destination floor registration function and a function of providing a predictive indication of a response car for each destination floor, a zone setting section 12 that sets priority zones and a common zone for each of upper and lower cars, an entry determination section 13 that determines whether the upper and lower cars can come into the common zone, a safe waiting section 14 that makes the cars 20 wait safely in accordance with the determination result of the entry determination section 13, a shunting section 15 that makes each car 20 move to a shunting floor as required at the instant when each car finished its service, a confinement time prediction section 16 that predicts a confinement time due to safe waiting when each car is assigned to a destination call generated in a hall, an evaluation value calculation section 17 that evaluates a waiting time, the confinement time, etc., upon assignment of each car, and an assignment section 18 that determines a final assigned car on the basis of the calculation result of the evaluation value calculation section 17.
Abstract:
In a control device for double-deck elevator systems equipped with a plurality of elevators that have an upper deck and a lower deck that are conveyed simultaneously to two adjacent floors and that assign elevator decks to respond to boarding hall calls from each floor, to select the optimal deck for responding to boarding hall calls is selected from among all of the aforementioned decks to make elevator travel and passenger transport more efficient. A response suitability index is found from various elements-predicted response time to a boarding hall call by a deck, the likelihood ratio of said predicted response time, the effect on existing boarding hall calls by responding to the boarding hall call, the car space available for the deck, and the number of elevators resulting from response to the boarding hall calls Processing to find this response suitability index is performed for all the decks of multiple elevators, the deck that has the optimal response suitability index is determined from among them and an assignment is made.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for group-supervising an elevator system according to this invention consists in predicting the position of operating cages after the lapse of a predetermined time, detecting an unoccupied cage and tentatively setting the standby position thereof, so as to predict the position of unoccupied cages after the lapse of the predetermined time under the condition that the detected unoccupied cage is run to the set position and is caused to stand by there, predicting, from the positions of the cages, the number of cages which will lie in certain floors or certain floor zones after the lapse of the predetermined time and estimating the numbers of cages in association with the floors, whereby the floor in which the unoccupied cage is to stand by is selected.
Abstract:
A group supervision apparatus for an elevator system having hall call registration devices for registering each hall when a hall button is depressed, assignment apparatus for selecting a cage to-serve from among a plurality of cages and assigning the selected cage to the hall call, cage control apparatus for performing operation controls such as determining travelling directions of the cages, starting and stopping the cages, and opening and closing doors of the cages, and for causing the cages to respond to cage calls and the hall calls allotted to the assigned cages, and standby devices for causing, when the cages have responded to all the calls, the cages to stand by at floors where they have responded, or to run to predetermined floors and stand by; the apparatus being so constructed that cage positions and cage directions of the respective cages to arise after the cage calls and the allotted hall calls have been successively responded to since the present point of time, during a predetermined time, are predictively calculated by cage position prediction devices, that temporal intervals or spatial intervals of the respective cages to arise after the lapse of the predetermined time are predictively calculated on the basis of the predicted cage positions and the predicted cage directions by cage interval prediction devices, and that at least one of the assignment apparatus, the cage control apparatus and the standby devices is operated using the predicted cage intervals.