Patent ID: 6394232
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
A method of controlling a group of elevator cars serving a plurality of floors in a building, comprising:(a) defining a matrix of all possible origin (departure) floors and all possible destination floors for travel in the building by elevator passengers, each element in the matrix representing a unique travel path between a combination of one of the origin floors and one of the destination floors and having a value indicating a ratio of passengers traveling along the corresponding travel path to total passengers traveling on the group of elevator cars, and being a mission unit; (b) defining a plurality of mission groups, each mission group having at least one mission unit and being serviceable by one of the elevator cars of the group of elevator cars; (c) defining a mission group set, the mission group set being a plurality of the mission groups provided for the group of elevator cars; and (d) dynamically allocating the mission group to the group of elevator cars.