"Artificial intelligence" based crowd sensing system for elevator car assignment
First Claim
1. In an elevator dispatching system, a method of controlling the number of elevator cars to be sent to a predetermined floor landing, said method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining historical information of passenger arrival rates at a predetermined floor, said historical covering at least a predetermined time interval;
determining, based on said historical information, a passenger arrival rate at the predetermined floor for said predetermined time interval;
predicting, based on said determined passenger arrival rate, a crowd size at the predetermined floor for said predetermined time interval;
comparing said predicted crowd size with a predetermined crowd size threshold;
generating a crowd signal when said predicted crowd size exceeds said predetermined crowd size threshold; and
controlling the number of elevator cars to be sent to the predetermined floor landing based on said generated crowd signal.
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Abstract
An elevator control system employing a micro-processor-based group controller (FIG. 2), which communicates with the cars (3, 4) of the system to determine the 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, assigning hall calls to cars based on the summation for each car, relative 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 being assigned, assigning varying "bonuses" and "penalties" to them in the weighted summation. "Artificial intelligence" techniques are used to predict traffic levels and any crowd build up at various floors to better assign one or more cars to the "crowd" predicted floors, either parking them there, if they were empty, or more appropriately assigning car(s) to the hall calls. Traffic levels at various floors are predicted by collecting passengers and car stop counts in real time and using real time and historic prediction for the traffic levels, with single exponential smoothing and/or linear exponential smoothing. Predicted passenger arrival counts are used to predict any crowd at fifteen second intervals at floors where significant traffic is predicted. Crowd prediction is then adjusted for any hall call stops made and the number of passengers picked up by the cars. The crowd dynamics are matched to car assignment, with one or more cars being sent to crowded floor(s).
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1. In an elevator dispatching system, a method of controlling the number of elevator cars to be sent to a predetermined floor landing, said method comprising the steps of:
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obtaining historical information of passenger arrival rates at a predetermined floor, said historical covering at least a predetermined time interval; determining, based on said historical information, a passenger arrival rate at the predetermined floor for said predetermined time interval; predicting, based on said determined passenger arrival rate, a crowd size at the predetermined floor for said predetermined time interval; comparing said predicted crowd size with a predetermined crowd size threshold; generating a crowd signal when said predicted crowd size exceeds said predetermined crowd size threshold; and controlling the number of elevator cars to be sent to the predetermined floor landing based on said generated crowd signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An elevator dispatching system to control the number of elevator cars to be sent to a predetermined floor landing, said system comprising:
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means for measuring and storing information regarding passenger traffic at the predetermined floor during at least a predetermined time interval; means for determining, based on said historical information, a passenger arrival rate at the predetermined floor for said predetermined time interval; means for predicting, based on said determined passenger arrival rate, a crowd size at the predetermined floor for said predetermined time interval; means for comparing said predicted crowd size with a predetermined crowd size threshold; means for generating a crowd signal when said predicted crowd size exceeds said predetermined crowd size threshold; and means for assigning the number of elevator cars to be sent to the predetermined floor landing based on said generated crowd signal. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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