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US 2012/0267201 A1Published application
Method for Scheduling Cars in Elevator Systems to Minimizes Round-Trip Times
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
InventorMatthew Brand
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Abstract
A set of cars in an elevator system are scheduled by assigning passengers to the cars such that a current schedule for each car does not exceed a predetermined maximum number of stops per round trip, and the car is filled as near as possible to a maximum capacity at a predetermined bottleneck.
Claims18
A method for scheduling a set of cars in an elevator system, the method comprising for each car the steps of:
- assigning passengers to the car such that a current schedule (CS) for the car does not exceed a predetermined maximum number of stops per round trip (MS);
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- filling the car as near as possible to a maximum capacity (MC) at a predetermined bottleneck.
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