Control of elevator system
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorsMika Kemppainen, Mika Belov
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Abstract
A method for managing a travel of a mobile robot, performed by a control system, includes: receiving data indicative of a state of the at least one transfer floor; receiving a service request; setting, in response to a detection that the state of the at least one transfer floor does not correspond to a reference state, another floor as a new transfer floor; generating a control signal to request an allowance of the elevators to travel to the new transfer floor; and generating a control signal comprising data at least indicative of a travel path of the mobile robot in the elevator utilizing the new transfer floor. Also, a control system, a computer program and a computer-readable medium are provided.
Claims20
A method for managing a travel of a mobile robot in a building equipped with an elevator system comprising at least one elevator arranged to serve a different section of the building than at least one other elevator and wherein the at least one elevator and the at least one other elevator are both accessible from at least one transfer floor, the method, performed by a control system, comprises:
- receiving data indicative of a state of the at least one transfer floor,
- receiving a service request for providing an elevator service to the mobile robot,
- setting, in response to a detection that the state of the at least one transfer floor does not correspond to a reference state, another floor to the at least one transfer floor as a new transfer floor for at least the mobile robot,
- generating a control signal to the elevator system to request an allowance of the at least one elevator and the at least one other elevator to travel to the new transfer floor, and
- generating a control signal to the mobile robot, the control signal comprising data at least indicative of a travel path of the mobile robot utilizing the new transfer floor.
A control system for managing a travel of a mobile robot in a building equipped with an elevator system comprising at least one elevator arranged to serve a different section of the building than at least one other elevator and wherein the at least one elevator and the at least one other elevator are both accessible from at least one transfer floor, the control system is configured to:
- receive data indicative of a state of the at least one transfer floor,
- receive a service request for providing an elevator service to the mobile robot,
- set, in response to a detection that the state of the at least one transfer floor does not correspond to a reference state, another floor to the at least one transfer floor as a new transfer floor for at least the mobile robot,
- generate a control signal to the elevator system to request an allowance of the at least one elevator and the at least one other elevator to travel to the new transfer floor, and
- generate a control signal to the mobile robot, the control signal comprising data at least indicative of a travel path of the mobile robot utilizing the new transfer floor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.