Robotic interlocking elevator control system and method

A robot interlocking elevator control method of a robot interlocking elevator control system including:

• an autonomous vehicle autonomously moving in a building;
• and an elevator controller controlling operation of elevators installed in the building and an elevator door upon boarding/alighting of the autonomous vehicle with respect to the elevator through communication with the autonomous vehicle, the robot interlocking elevator control method comprising:
• remotely calling, by the autonomous vehicle, an elevator;
• allocating, by the elevator controller, an elevator to the autonomous vehicle;
• sending, by the autonomous vehicle, a platform standby signal to the elevator controller after arrival at a platform for the allocated elevator;
• opening, by the elevator controller, a door of the allocated elevator, followed by sending a boarding permission signal to the autonomous vehicle;
• starting, by the autonomous vehicle, boarding operation with respect to the allocated elevator in response to the boarding permission signal while sending an under-boarding signal to the elevator controller during the boarding operation;
• sending, by the autonomous vehicle, a boarding completion signal to the elevator controller upon completion of the boarding operation with respect to the allocated elevator;
• controlling, by the elevator controller, the allocated elevator receiving the autonomous vehicle through the boarding operation of the autonomous vehicle to move to a departure floor of the autonomous vehicle;
• opening, by the elevator controller, the door of the allocated elevator upon arrival of the allocated elevator at the departure floor, followed by sending an alighting permission signal to the autonomous vehicle;
• starting, by the autonomous vehicle, alighting operation with respect to the allocated elevator in response to the alighting permission signal while sending an under-alighting signal to the elevator controller during the alighting operation;
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• sending, by the autonomous vehicle, an alighting completion signal to the elevator controller upon completion of the alighting operation with respect to the allocated elevator,
• wherein the elevator controller selects, as an opening standby time of the elevator door, any one of a general opening standby time set for shared use of the elevator by both human passengers and robots and a robot opening standby time set for exclusive use of the elevator by the robots and determines whether disablement of a door close button of the elevator is to be set or released, depending on reception of a signal sent from the autonomous vehicle in the course of performing a series of the steps and depending on whether the elevator allocated to the autonomous vehicle is set to a shared mode allowing shared use of the elevator by human passengers and robots or a robot exclusive mode allowing exclusive use of the elevator by the robots.