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Elevator group supervisory control system

US5767461A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 22, 1995
Grant dateJun 16, 1998
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Expiry dateDec 22, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB66B2201/402
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

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.

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