EP0731050A2 - Ferngesteuerte Gruppekonfiguration für Aufzug - Google Patents

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EP0731050A2
EP0731050A2 EP96301603A EP96301603A EP0731050A2 EP 0731050 A2 EP0731050 A2 EP 0731050A2 EP 96301603 A EP96301603 A EP 96301603A EP 96301603 A EP96301603 A EP 96301603A EP 0731050 A2 EP0731050 A2 EP 0731050A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B1/00—Control systems of elevators in general
    • B66B1/34—Details, e.g. call counting devices, data transmission from car to control system, devices giving information to the control system
    • B66B1/3415—Control system configuration and the data transmission or communication within the control system
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B1/00—Control systems of elevators in general
    • B66B1/34—Details, e.g. call counting devices, data transmission from car to control system, devices giving information to the control system
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B1/00—Control systems of elevators in general
    • B66B1/34—Details, e.g. call counting devices, data transmission from car to control system, devices giving information to the control system
    • B66B1/3415—Control system configuration and the data transmission or communication within the control system
    • B66B1/3423—Control system configuration, i.e. lay-out
    • B66B1/3438—Master-slave control system configuration
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B1/00—Control systems of elevators in general
    • B66B1/34—Details, e.g. call counting devices, data transmission from car to control system, devices giving information to the control system
    • B66B1/3415—Control system configuration and the data transmission or communication within the control system
    • B66B1/3446—Data transmission or communication within the control system
    • B66B1/3461—Data transmission or communication within the control system between the elevator control system and remote or mobile stations

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  • This invention relates to elevator control systems and, more particularly, to such systems including a remote control for transmitting elevator command signals.
  • elevator cars are typically installed and electronically controlled (configured) in groups.
  • a group is a number of elevator cars available to answer hall calls registered through a particular set of hall call buttons.
  • the buttons are located in halls at particular floors in a building.
  • Electronic controllers for cars in a group are located typically in a machine room of the building. See U.S. Patent Nos.: 4,497,391; 5,202,540; 4,363,381 and 4,401,190.
  • an elevator control system comprising:
  • Pushing the, e.g., # button a first time on the transmitter keypad generates and sends a unique and encoded signal which is detected by the receiver.
  • the signal is translated by the receiver to a correspondingly unique and encoded signal which is placed on, e.g., a remote serial link (RSL) of the elevator system and sent to the electronic controller for the elevator car.
  • the controller is in an electronically communicative relationship with other controllers for other cars in all groups.
  • Each controller includes decode logic to detect or recognize not only the unique # signal, but also all other command signals from that particular transmitter.
  • the # signal is detected by and invokes the group reconfiguration software stored in the controller.
  • the group reconfiguration software responds interactively to each of the command signals sent from the transmitter.
  • a first response e.g., causes a menu to be displayed on the ELD.
  • the operator thereafter, presses the appropriate 0..9 number key to select a menu item such as "RECONFIGURE GROUP.”
  • This selection is again passed to the group reconfiguration software which suitably accesses known dispatcher software and which suitably causes display of the current group configuration on the ELD.
  • Each group is displayed and numbered, and each car in a group is numbered.
  • the user interacts with a series of menus and prompts generated by the reconfiguration software, with controls, to place car(s) into or remove car(s) from group(s).
  • the user presses or selects the # key a second time to finalize the operation.
  • the group reconfiguration request is queued, automatically communicated to all controllers for all groups and will occur or be executed the next time all cars in reconfigured groups are idle.
  • Fig. 1 is a block diagram that depicts an elevator system of a type described in commonly owned U.S. Patent No. 5,202,540 issued April 13, 1993, entitled “Two-Way Ring Communication System for Elevator Group Control" to B. Auer, et al.
  • This elevator system presents but one suitable configuration which, when modified as shown in Figs. 3-7, is useful for practising the present invention.
  • Fig. 2 shows an alternative group control arrangement as described in the '381 patent to Bittar which can also be modified to practice the present invention.
  • an elevator group control function may be distributed to separate data processors, such as microprocessors, on a per elevator car basis.
  • OCSS operational control subsystems
  • the elevator group consists of eight elevator cars (CAR 1-CAR 8) and, hence, includes eight OCSS 101 units.
  • Each OCSS includes a CPU, I/O ports and volatile (RAM), and nonvolatile (ROM, EEPROM, etc.) memories, all interconnected by suitable buses not shown; see Fig. 1A.
  • a building may have more than one group of elevator cars.
  • each group may include from one to some maximum specified number of elevator cars, typically a maximum of eight cars.
  • Fig. 2 shows another arrangement in which only two elevators 1 and 2 are shown for purposes of illustration.
  • Each elevator comprises a car 3,4 suspended by a rope 5,6 passing over pulleys 7,8,9,9', and provided with counter weights 11,12.
  • a travelling cable 13,14 communicates car electronics, including cab controller 33,34 and secondary position transducer 32, 33 with a car controller 15,16.
  • a governor cable 29,30 passing over pulleys 27,28,31,32 provides car position signals to the controller via a primary position transducer 26,26'.
  • the cars are controlled by a group controller 17 which communicates with the car controllers 15,16 and via lines 22 with hoistway functions, including a lobby panel 21, hall call buttons 18 and indicators 23,24.
  • the elevator system of Fig. 1 has been modified to include two logically separated four-car groups, the group reconfiguration software, remote transmitter 10 and a display 25, as all hereafter described.
  • Group 1 (cars 1-4) and Group 2 (cars 5-8) are logically separated into groups by any appropriate software which forms part of or may be separate from, for example, the group reconfiguration software suitably stored in each nonvolatile memory of each OCSS; see Fig. 5.
  • Fig. 3 hall buttons, for initiating elevator hall calls, and lights are connected with remote stations 104 and remote serial communication links 105 to each OCSS 101 via a switch-over module (SOM) 106. Elevator car buttons, lights, and switches are coupled through similar remote stations 107 and serial links 108 to the OCSS 101. Elevator car specific hall features, such as car direction and position indicators, are coupled through remote stations 109 and a remote serial link 110 to the OCSS 101.
  • SOM switch-over module
  • each elevator car and associated OCSS 101 has a similar arrangement of indicators, switches, communication links and the like, as just described, associated therewith. For the sake of simplicity, only those associated with CAR 3 are shown in Fig. 3.
  • Car load measurement is periodically read by a door control subsystem (DCSS) 111, which is a component of the car controller system.
  • the load measurement is sent to a motion control subsystem (MCSS) 112, which is also a component of the car controller system.
  • the load measurement in turn is sent to the OCSS 101.
  • DCSS 111 and MCSS 112 are preferably embodied within microprocessor systems for controlling the car door operation and the car motion, under the control of the OCSS 101.
  • the MCSS 112 also works in conjunction with a drive and brake subsystem (DBSS) 112A.
  • DBSS drive and brake subsystem
  • a car dispatching function is executed by the OCSS 101, in conjunction, for example, with an advanced dispatcher subsystem (ADSS) 113, which communicates with each OCSS 101 through an information control subsystem (ICSS) 114.
  • ADSS advanced dispatcher subsystem
  • ICSS information control subsystem
  • the measured car load is converted into boarding and deboarding passenger counts by the MCSS 112 and sent to the OCSS 101.
  • the OCSS 101 subsequently transmits this data over the communication buses 102,103 to the ADSS 113, via the ICSS 114.
  • data from a hardware sensor (not shown) mounted on the car's door frame may sense boarding traffic, and this sensed information is provided to the car's OCSS 101.
  • the ICSS 114 functions as a communication bus interface for the ADSS 113, which in turn influences high level elevator car control functions and parameters.
  • the ADSS 113 may also collect data on individual car and group demands throughout the day to arrive at a historical record of traffic demands for different time intervals for each day of the week.
  • the ADSS 113 may also compare a predicted demand to an actual demand so as to adjust elevator car dispatching sequences to obtain an optimum level of group and individual car performance.
  • Pressing the # key a first time causes the unit 10 to transmit a unique and encoded elevator group reconfiguration (EGR) command signal. See Fig. 5.
  • EGR elevator group reconfiguration
  • the receiver suitably receives and decodes the signal in any conventional fashion.
  • the receiver for example, re-encodes the signal for transmission to the appropriate portion of the controller such as OCSS which is in an electronically communicative relationship with other operational control subsystems within a group in any well known manner. See, for example, the previously mentioned U.S. Patent 5,202,540.
  • communication with an OCSS in another group is accomplished through the lines 102,103 and conventional communication techniques which may include optional hardware/software interfaces. Further descriptions of such techniques are unnecessary for understanding and practising the present invention.
  • Those skilled in the art can readily implement such techniques in communications/control software which permits results of commands introduced through, e.g., the OCSS for car 1, to be communicated and executed at a proper time by all appropriate OCSS's in all groups.
  • Each unique signal commands correspondingly unique function(s) in the elevator group reconfiguration (EGR) software.
  • the EGR software includes instructions for fetching, displaying and modifying group configuration data (e.g., car and group ID numbers) stored in conventional dispatcher software such as that taught in the '381 patent to Bittar.
  • the communication/control software is separate from or may be part of the EGR software and is stored in each OCSS memory.
  • the communication/control software controls communication to and from each group reconfiguration (EGR) software (Fig. 6,7) stored in each OCSS of each group. See U.S. Patent 5,202,540.
  • Each OCSS includes either hardware or software decode logic (e.g., OCSS RSL decode logic) which detects all incoming signals, but recognizes or passes only EGR command signals.
  • the EGR software Upon receiving the EGR command signal, the EGR software responds or performs according to the EGR routine as shown in, for example, Figs. 6 and 7.
  • Figs. 6 and 7 valid user keystrokes are indicated on the flows (arrows), and resulting actions are indicated in the blocks.
  • Figs. 6 and 7 include a third four-car group, i.e., Group 3. That routine interacts with the group control/identification portions of well-known dispatching software such as the RSR routines disclosed in U.S. Patent 4,363,381, previously mentioned.
  • the EGR routine causes such group ID portion of the software to add or delete particular cars to or from selected group(s).
  • the screen information (of e.g., screens 1-5) is stored and, responsive to suitable signals, modified and outputted to a display 25 (Fig. 5) as explained in Fig. 6 and Fig. 7.
  • the EGR software Upon receiving a final command signal to end a reconfiguration session, the EGR software queues the group reconfiguration request and automatically communicates such request for queuing by all controllers of all groups.
  • those skilled in the art will readily be able to code the routines of Figs. 6,7 for interaction with known dispatching software stored in same/different elevator group(s), and otherwise to implement the present invention.

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