A passenger conveyance system includes a depth-sensing sensor for capturing depth map data of objects within a field of view adjacent a passenger conveyance door. A processing module in communication with the depth-sensing sensor to receive the depth map data, the processing module uses the depth map data to track an object and calculate passenger data associated with the tracked object, and a passenger conveyance controller to receive the passenger data from the processing module, wherein the passenger conveyance controller controls a passenger conveyance dispatch control function in response to the passenger data.

Disclosed is a robot interlocking elevator control system for efficient control of elevators operated in association with robots autonomously moving in a building. The present disclosure provides a method of setting the most efficient elevator line to be exclusive for robots in consideration of traffic volume in the building, a method of assigning elevator lines and efficiently switching operation modes of elevators while suppressing an encounter between the robots and humans, and a method of setting robot boarding-related parameters for elevator lines set to allow use of the robots.

The present disclosure provides an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing system capable of improving convenience of use of a moving object on a route according to schedule information of a user.

An information processing device includes a control unit that determines whether or not a moving object is used on a route to a destination calculated on the basis of a current position and closest schedule information of a user and performs control to move the moving object used on the route to a riding place of the user.

One robotic destination dispatch system for elevators comprises a destination dispatch module configured to determine an optimal elevator for a passenger. The robotic destination dispatch system includes a guide robot in wireless data communication with the destination dispatch module. The guide robot has a processor in communication with a propelling device, a sensory device, and a memory comprising software. The software includes computer-readable instructions executable by the processor to: (a) implement an auction-based scheduling algorithm; (b) determine an identity of the passenger; (c) receive from the destination dispatch module the optimal elevator for the passenger; and (d) activate the propelling device to cause the guide robot to move and physically guide the passenger to the optimal elevator.

A group control device according to the present disclosure includes a registration unit, a calculation unit, and a selection unit. The registration unit makes call registration for a boarding floor, a destination floor, and an allocated car when a user makes a hall destination call by a hall destination calling device. The calculation unit calculates an in-car stay time of the user for the hall destination call. The selection unit selects a past hall destination call as an alternative candidate for call registration for a new hall destination call, in a case where the past hall destination call which has already been registered by the registration unit, whose allocated car is different from a car allocated to the new hall destination call, and whose in-car stay time is shorter than the in-car stay time calculated by the calculation unit.

A method and an apparatus for computing allocation decisions in an elevator system is provided. Historical passenger batch journey data relating to the elevator system is obtained, wherein each passenger batch journey includes an origin and a destination floor of the journey, the number of passengers of the journey and the time of the journey. Historical passenger traffic statistics are constructed based on the passenger batch journey data, and expected calls are modelled based on the passenger traffic statistics. The modelled expected call is taken into account in computing subsequent allocation decisions in the elevator system.

A method of assigning destination call in an elevator group forms chromosomes including genes where each gene is a correlation of a call and an elevator trip, the possible round trips are calculated, each round trip is evaluated for optimization procedure. The calls are assigned to the elevators by the destination call control based on the best chromosome determined.

An elevator installation for serving at least one floor in at least one building can be modernized, the elevator installation comprising at least one elevator with at least one elevator car and at least one elevator control. At least one destination call terminal for input of at least one destination call and/or for recognition of at least one identification code is installed on at least one input floor. At least one destination call control is installed. The destination call terminal is, for communication of the destination call signal, connected with the destination call control. The destination call control can be connected to the elevator control through a serial interface of the elevator control.

The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling motion of a bank of elevators. The method includes accepting current requests for service by the bank of elevators, accepting a partial trajectory of a motion of a person moving in an environment serviced by the bank of elevators, and obtaining a probability of a future elevator request. The method further includes processing the partial trajectory with a neural network trained to estimate a weighted combination of probability density functions that indicates an arrival time distribution of the person, and generating a set of possible future requests jointly representing the probability of the future elevator request and the arrival time distribution. The method further includes optimizing a schedule of the bank of elevators to serve the current requests and the set of possible future requests, and controlling the bank of elevators according to the schedule.

A method for controlling an elevator where an elevator is allocated for the use of a passenger in a first optimization phase in such a way that a first cost function is minimized, a second optimization phase is performed, in which the route of the allocated elevator is optimized in such a way that a second cost function is minimized.