An interactive control method is provided. The interactive control method includes the following steps. When robot equipment is located outside elevator equipment, the robot equipment is connected to a first control module disposed outside the elevator equipment to call, by the first control module, an elevator car of the elevator equipment. The first control module determines whether the elevator car arrives at a current floor to return an arrival signal to the robot equipment. The robot equipment is connected to a second control module disposed inside the elevator car according to the arrival signal to control, by the second control module, an elevator door of the elevator car to open. The robot equipment is driven to move into the elevator car. When the robot equipment is located within a working range of the elevator car, the second control module stops controlling the elevator door of the elevator car to open.

An elevator control system, an elevator system, and a control method therefor. The elevator control system includes: a data collection unit configured to receive a call request signal from a machine passenger at each landing, and receive information about the machine to ride the elevator sent by the machine passenger; and a control unit configured to determine whether to accept the call request from the machine passenger based on elevator operating condition and the information about the machine to ride the elevator, and send information about the rules of riding the elevator to the machine passenger after accepting its call request.

A method for crowd prediction in an elevator system includes logging the number of calls across a period of time and generating a first time series for an average number of calls; collecting external influence data and generating a second time series for the external influence data; performing a cross-correlation test on the first and second time series; when a cross-correlation between the first and second time series is determined, performing a causality test on the first and second time series; and when a causal relationship between the first and second time series is determined, using the causal relationship to predict an expected number of calls in the elevator system.

An aspect includes capturing crowd data associated with a lobby area of an elevator system. A dispatching schedule of one or more elevator cars of the elevator system is adjusted based on the crowd data. A notification of the adjustment to the dispatching schedule is output.

An illustrative example elevator system includes a plurality of elevator cars. A dispatch controller assigns a first one of the elevator cars to travel to a landing in response to a first request for elevator service at that landing. At least one call button is operative to place a second request while the first one of the elevator cars is situated at the landing in response to the first request. The dispatch controller assigns a second one of the elevator cars to travel to the landing in response to the second request.

Disclosed is an elevator system having a controller configured for: rendering a first determination that an elevator service call is placed at a first lobby, rendering a second determination that captured video data indicates a plurality of passengers including a first passenger is at the first lobby, and executing a first communication to instruct a first elevator car to effect elevator service at the first lobby based on the first determination and the second determination.

An elevator system is provided and includes at least one car; driving elements, each of the driving elements being configured to drive a corresponding car from a waiting area from which at least one passenger boards the corresponding car; at least one sensor configured to identify a presence of more than one passenger intending to board a car and in the waiting area and configured to determine a characteristic of the more than one passenger; and a controller configured to drive more than one car to the waiting area when a capacity of the corresponding car is less than the characteristic of the more than one passenger.

Disclosed is an elevator system having a plurality of elevators including a first elevator and a second elevator, and a controller that controls the plurality of elevators and communicates over a network with a first device seeking elevator service at a lobby, wherein the controller: receives a first request from the first device to receive elevator service, provides the first device a first priority number, based on the first priority number and remaining elevator capacity in the plurality of elevators, effects a first assignment wherein the first elevator is assigned to service the first request.

A method for allocating an elevator in an elevator system constructs passenger batch size distributions for each pair of floors in a building based on passenger batch journeys, each passenger batch journey defining at least the origin and destination floor of the journey, the number of passengers relating to the journey and the time of the journey; receives a call for an elevator; estimates the number of passengers waiting behind the call based on the passenger batch size distributions; and allocates the call to an elevator being able to serve the estimated number of passengers.

The invention relates to a method for allocating elevator calls in an elevator system (10) comprising at least one elevator (12a-12c), which elevator system (10) is controlled by an elevator control (16) comprising a destination call allocation control, wherein passenger IDs are inputted into at least one I/O-device (20) of the elevator system (10), whereafter based on the passenger ID a destination call is issued comprising the floor of the I/O-device (20) as departure floor and a preset or inputted destination floor as destination floor of the elevator call. According to the invention when a new destination call is issued, it is checked whether or not a destination call is still pending under the same passenger ID, and if a destination call of said person is still pending, either the new call or the pending call is cancelled.