JP2015224132A - Group-management elevator device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a group-management elevator device by which a user can get on an assigned elevator unit without fail.SOLUTION: A group-management elevator device includes a plurality of elevator units A-D, a destination floor registration device 2 located on a landing floor, and a group management control device for assigning any one of the plurality of elevator units to a destination floor registered by the operation of the destination floor registration device 2. The group management control device that includes a data storage part for storing a plurality of pieces of control information for attributes of a plurality of disabilities and a disability attribute determination part for determining the attributes of the disability of a user extracts a movement time of the user as control information corresponding to the attribute of the disability of the user determined by the disability attribute determination part from the data storage part, and on the basis of the extracted movement time, assigns any one of the plurality of elevator units to the destination floor.

Description

  The present invention relates to a group management elevator apparatus in consideration of physical disabilities.

  As conventional techniques related to a group management elevator device in consideration of physical disabilities, techniques described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 are known.

  In the technique described in Patent Document 1, when an elevator user operates a floor selection switch button installed near a landing, an announcement of a destination floor or a destination floor group is started in consideration of visual impairment. When the destination floor or destination floor group intended by the user is announced, the user operates the button again. At this time, the group management elevator device assigns the last-announced destination floor or the destination floor group before the button is re-operated by the user to one of the elevator cars in the elevator group, and identifies the elevator car. Is generated from the car specific device.

  In the technology described in Patent Document 2, a wheelchair button is provided in the destination floor reservation device, and the own / other bank determination processing unit determines that the destination floor is serviced by another elevator bank and detects the operation of the wheelchair button. At this time, the assignment registration process is not performed, and information that prompts the user to move to another bank is displayed on the destination floor reservation device that has been input.

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  In the above-described conventional technology, the elevator can be smoothly used for a specific physical disability, but there is a problem that the elevator cannot be easily used for other physical disabilities.

  Therefore, the present invention provides a group management elevator apparatus that can take into a car of an elevator car to which a user is assigned in consideration of a plurality of physical disabilities.

  In order to solve the above problems, a group management elevator device according to the present invention includes a plurality of elevators, a destination floor registration device located on a landing floor, and a plurality of destination floors registered by operation of the destination floor registration device. A group management control device that assigns one of the elevator units, and the group management control device includes a data storage unit that stores a plurality of control information for a plurality of physical disability attributes, and a user's physical disability A physical disability attribute determination unit that determines an attribute, and extracts control information corresponding to the physical disability attribute of the user determined by the physical disability attribute determination unit from the data storage unit, based on the extracted control information And assign one of the elevators to the destination floor.

  According to the group management elevator apparatus according to the present invention, the elevator car is assigned to the destination floor based on a plurality of control information corresponding to the attributes of a plurality of physical disabilities, so that it is ensured that a passenger is assigned to the elevator car. I can get in.

  Problems, configurations, and effects other than those described above will be clarified by the following description of embodiments.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a hall of a group management elevator apparatus that is Embodiment 1 of the present invention. It is a front view which shows the structural example of the operation surface in the destination floor registration apparatus of FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the control system of the group management elevator apparatus of Example 1. FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the processing operation of destination floor registration in the group management elevator apparatus of Example 1. FIG. An example of the situation where the effect of Example 1 produces is shown. An example of a data table is shown. An example of a data table is shown. An example of the sensor which transmits the information regarding a user's physical condition is shown. The vicinity of the destination floor registration apparatus in the group management elevator apparatus which is Example 2 of this invention is shown. It is a block diagram which shows the control system of the group management elevator apparatus which is Example 3 of this invention. It is a schematic block diagram which shows an example of the space determination apparatus used for the determination process in the in-car space determination part. It is a schematic block diagram which shows the in-car space determination apparatus in the group management elevator apparatus which is Example 4 of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a hall of a group management elevator apparatus that is Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

  The group management elevator apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a plurality (four in FIG. 1) of elevators (A to D) and a centrally arranged type that is fixedly arranged in the landing on the landing floor or in the vicinity of the landing entrance. Destination floor registration device 2, arrival lamp 3 that informs the arrival of the elevator car that responds to the landing call according to the vertical direction, and the output that is arranged on the landing door of each elevator and outputs information by voice or text display Device 4. As will be described later, the hall call is registered when the operation surface 1 of the destination floor registration device 2 is operated for destination floor registration.

  In the present embodiment, two elevators are arranged on both sides of the hall space. A destination floor registration device 10 is provided on a wall surface located between two adjacent elevators. When the elevator user forgets the destination floor registration by the destination floor registration device 2 or wants to change the destination floor registered by the destination floor registration device 2, the elevator user registers the destination floor by the destination floor registration device 10. Or you can re-register.

  Furthermore, the present embodiment is provided with an image camera 5 that operates the destination floor registration device 2 or the destination floor registration device 10 to photograph a user who is performing destination floor registration. The image camera 5 acquires image data for identifying attributes of physical disabilities (wheelchair use, crutch use, visual impairment).

  FIG. 2 is a front view showing a configuration example of the operation surface 1 in the destination floor registration device 2 of FIG. The operation surface 1 of the destination floor registration device 2 includes a floor button 7 composed of a plurality of numerical buttons (numerical keys in FIG. 2) pressed by the user when registering the destination floor, and a user who registers the destination floor. Button for notifying the handicap 8 to be pressed when notifying the handicap and the destination floor pressed by the user, or the assigned destination floor and assigned to the hall call on the floor where the destination floor registration device 2 is installed The characters and symbols indicating the designated elevator are displayed, or when the handicap notification button 8 is operated, the voice guidance indicating the elevator assigned to the destination floor and the hall call is output as described above. Display output unit 6. The detection unit 24 is a card reader unit for reading data on the IC card 23 in Example 2 (FIG. 9) described later.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control system of the group management elevator apparatus of the present embodiment.

  In this control system 30, signals from the image camera 5, the output unit 6, the floor button 7, and the handicap notification button 8 shown in FIG. 2 are taken into the control unit 18 of the group management control device 31. The control unit 18 controls the arrival light (reference numeral 3 in FIG. 1) by the arrival light control unit 20 or the output guidance control unit 19 to output each elevator as normal control based on the captured signal. The apparatus (reference numeral 4 in FIG. 1) is controlled.

  In addition, the control unit 18 controls each unit of the group management control device 31 according to the software for the physical disability response control read from the storage unit 17 based on the signal from the physical disability notification button 8 to function as follows. .

  The physical disability confirmation unit 9 confirms the physical disability based on the signal from the physical disability notification button 8. As described above, in this embodiment, the disability confirmation device is configured by the disability confirmation unit 9 and the disability notification button 8. When the physical disability confirmation unit 9 confirms the physical disability, the physical disability attribute determination unit 10 performs image processing on the image data from the image camera 5 to determine the physical disability attribute. The physical disability attribute determination unit 10 identifies wheelchair use, crutch use, and visual impairment as attributes. In this embodiment, the physical disability attribute determination device is configured by the image camera 5 and the physical disability attribute determination unit 10 as described above.

  The travel time extraction unit 12 extracts from the travel time data storage unit 11 the control information corresponding to the physical disability attribute determined by the physical disability attribute determination unit 10, that is, the travel time before the elevator of the user. Here, the travel time data storage unit 11 stores the travel time from the destination floor registration device 2 to each elevator and the time required to enter the car for each physical disability attribute. In consideration of the travel time of the passengers extracted by the travel time extraction unit 12, the car allocation unit 13 selects an elevator car that can reduce the waiting time of the passengers, and the elevator car is registered as a registered destination floor. And assigned to hall floor calls with passengers.

  The output notification unit 14 outputs identification information such as the number and name of the assigned elevator car by the character display or voice by the output unit 6 of the destination floor registration device 2. The door opening / closing adjustment unit 16 controls the elevator control panel 15 so as to control the door opening / closing of the elevator unit allocated by the unit allocation unit 13 according to the physical disorder attribute determined by the physical disorder attribute determination unit 10. Give a control command.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the destination floor registration processing operation in the group management elevator apparatus of the present embodiment. FIG. 4 shows a processing operation when the user operates the floor button 7 and the handicap notification button 8 of the destination floor registration device 2 to register the destination floor.

  The group management control device 31 of the group management elevator device according to the present embodiment monitors the destination floor registration device 2 when the elevator device is operating. As one monitoring operation, the notification signal from the destination floor registration device 2 is displayed. Based on the presence or absence, it is determined whether the handicap notification button 8 is pressed (step S1). If it is determined that the handicap notification button 8 has been pressed, control software in consideration of the handicap is activated (step S1, YES). If it is not determined that the handicap notification button 8 has been pressed, the destination floor registration device 2 is continuously monitored (step S1, NO).

  If the group management control device 31 determines that the handicap notification button 8 has been pressed (step S1, YES), then the destination floor registration device 2 based on the presence / absence of a destination floor signal from the destination floor registration device 2 It is determined whether or not the floor button 7 is pressed (step S2). If it is determined that the floor button 7 has been pressed (step S2, YES), the output notification unit 14 outputs the floor identification information indicated by the destination floor signal to the output unit 6 of the destination floor registration device 2 by text display or voice. . At this time, the unit allocation unit 13 has a function of allocating a suitable elevator unit based on the floor button 6 as described above, but since the body disorder is confirmed by the body disorder confirmation unit 9, The process of assigning elevators to destination floors and hall calls is suspended.

  Next, the group management control device 31 performs image processing on the image data acquired from the image camera 5 using the physical disability attribute determination unit 10 that has received the confirmation signal from the physical disability confirmation unit 9 prior to the allocation of the elevator car. To determine the attributes of physical disability, in this embodiment, wheelchair use, crutch use, and visual impairment (step S3). For example, it is possible to apply known image processing such as measuring the degree of coincidence between the acquired image and a reference image of wheelchair use, crutch use, or visual impairment. In addition, the attribute of a physical disability is not limited to these attributes, and can be set by being aggregated or subdivided as appropriate according to an elevator usage situation or a driving control method. For example, the use of wheelchairs and crutches may be combined to make them physically disabled.

  Next, the group management control device 31 uses the movement time extraction unit 12 as control information corresponding to the attribute determination result in step S3 from the movement time data stored in advance in the movement time data storage unit 11. Time data and boarding time data required to move from the front of the destination floor registration device 2 in operation to each elevator are extracted (step S4). Thereafter, the travel time extraction unit 12 transmits the travel time data to the car allocation unit 13 and the boarding time data door opening / closing time adjustment unit 16.

  Next, the group management control device 31 uses the unit allocation unit 13 to determine whether the passenger is based on the travel time data received by the unit allocation unit 13 and the operating state of the elevator unit transmitted from the elevator unit control panel 15. A suitable elevator that can surely get on the arrival car and reduce the waiting time of the passenger is selected and assigned to the destination floor and the hall call (step S5). Here, the group management control device 31 assigns an elevator in an operating state in which the car arrives at the landing floor after the movement time has elapsed.

  Further, the group management control device 31 transmits data relating to the assigned elevator car, for example, identification data such as the elevator car number and name, to the destination floor registration device 2 via the output notification unit 14 and the assigned elevator. Signals related to the destination floor and the hall call are transmitted to the elevator control panel 15 that controls the number machine. The elevator unit identification data received by the destination floor registration device 2 is output from the output unit 6 by text display or voice, and is notified to the user who operates the destination floor registration device 2 (step S6). The identification data of the elevator car is also transmitted to the door opening / closing time adjustment unit 16.

  Further, the group management control device 31 uses the door opening / closing time adjustment unit 16 to set the attributes of physical disability based on the boarding time data received by the door opening / closing time adjustment unit 16 and the identification data of the elevator as described above. If it is determined that the door opening / closing time is to be extended by comparing the corresponding boarding time with the door opening / closing time of the assigned elevator, an instruction to adjust the door opening / closing is given to the elevator control panel 15 of the assigned elevator. Send to.

  According to the present embodiment as described above, it is preferable in consideration of the time required for the passenger to move from the location of the destination floor registration device 2 to the assigned elevator in accordance with the physical disability attribute. Elevators can be assigned. Thereby, even if it takes time for a passenger to move to the elevator, it is possible to reliably get on the car that has arrived.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of a situation in which such an effect of the present embodiment occurs. This figure shows the vicinity of the destination floor registration device 2. In addition, the detection part 24 (refer FIG. 2) in the destination floor registration apparatus 2 is abbreviate | omitted.

  In FIG. 5, it is assumed that the customer 21 can move within 5 seconds on foot from the location of the destination floor registration device 2 to the assigned elevator No. B. Further, it is assumed that the user 22 can move between the same destination floor registration device 2 and the elevator No. B in 15 seconds using a wheelchair or a crutch. At this time, if the elevator group management control device assigns the elevator No. B where the car arrives after 5 seconds in consideration of the waiting time of passengers at the landing as usual, the passenger 21 can get in, Since the passenger 22 arrives in front of the elevator after the elevator car B has departed, the passenger 22 gets behind. On the other hand, if the elevator group management control device assigns the elevator No. B in consideration of the travel time according to the attribute of the physical disability, the passenger car 22 will be the elevator No. Since the car arrives at the landing floor after the point of arrival before the passenger 2, the passenger 2 will not be late. In addition, the elevator group management control device assigns the elevators so that the waiting time is further shortened in the range of the moving time or more. For this reason, the waiting time of the customer 22 after reaching before the elevator B is reduced.

  In the present embodiment, the group management control device stores in advance a data table associating a plurality of physical disability attributes and travel times as travel time data. FIG. 6 shows an example of the data table. As in this example, the movement time is set for each attribute.

  Here, even with the same attribute, considering that the travel time varies depending on the distance from the destination floor registration device to each elevator, in the data table, move for multiple attributes of physical disabilities and multiple elevators Time may be related. An example of such a data table is shown in FIG. As in this example, the traveling time is set for each elevator for each attribute. Accordingly, even in an elevator bank including a large number of elevators such as eight, for example, a user can surely get into the car.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the group management control device in the present embodiment controls the elevator control panel 15 to control the door opening / closing of the elevator assigned by the number assigning unit 13 according to the attribute of physical disability. A door opening / closing adjustment unit 16 for giving a command is provided. The door opening / closing adjustment unit 16 compares the boarding time extracted according to the attribute of the physical disability with the door opening time of the elevator car assigned by the car assignment unit 13, and if the boarding time is longer, the door opening / closing adjustment part 16 Adjust the door opening time to extend the time. Here, the boarding time according to the attribute is set by the data table as shown in FIG.

  The door opening / closing adjustment unit 16 may have a function of disabling the door closing button when the door closing button provided on the operation panel in the car is operated when the door opening time is extended. . Further, when the door opening / closing adjustment unit 16 gives a command signal to the elevator control panel 15, the corresponding elevator can be switched to a dedicated operation for handling physical disabilities.

  In the data table as described above, the attributes may be further subdivided according to the detailed attributes of the physical disability and the attributes of the users, for example, the size of the wheelchair, whether it is an adult or a child. Note that the subdivided attributes are also determined based on the image of the customer operating the destination floor registration device 2 acquired by the image camera 5. Also, an image of the passenger who has moved to the front of the assigned elevator using the data table shown in FIG. 6 or FIG. 7 is acquired. Based on the acquired image, the size of the wheelchair, whether it is an adult or a child, etc. A determination may be made, and the value of the boarding time stored in advance may be corrected based on the determination result. For example, when the size of the wheelchair exceeds a predetermined size, a value obtained by multiplying the value of the boarding time by α (> 1) is used.

  The travel time and the boarding time as described above may be appropriately corrected according to the physical condition of the user. For example, if the group management control device determines that the passenger is in poor physical condition, the group management control device uses a value obtained by multiplying the value set in the data table by β (> 1) in the elevator unit assignment process.

  FIG. 8 shows an example of a sensor that transmits information related to the physical condition of the customer. This example is a wristband sensor 40 worn on the wrist, and is used for health management. In FIG. 8, the band portion 41 is partially omitted. This sensor includes a sensor that measures a pulse, a body temperature, and the like, and transmits data detected by the sensor by a wireless signal. The group management control device acquires information related to the physical condition such as the body temperature and pulse of the user from the received wireless signal, and determines the physical condition of the user from this information. Note that the wearable sensor is not limited to the wristband type and can be applied to the wearable sensor.

  FIG. 9 shows the vicinity of the destination floor registration device in the group management elevator device according to the second embodiment of the present invention. Moreover, this figure has shown the situation similar to FIG. Hereinafter, differences from the first embodiment will be mainly described.

  In the second embodiment, the group management control device replaces the handicap notification button 8 of the destination floor registration device 2 with the IC card 23 for destination floor registration carried by the user and the detection unit 24 of the destination floor registration device 2. Check for physical disability when detected.

  The IC card 23 stores physical disability attribute data and destination floor data as card information in advance. The group management control device uses each data read when the IC card 23 is detected to determine an attribute of physical disability and perform destination floor registration.

  The group management control device stores the floor data in association with the identification data of the IC card, extracts the floor data when the IC card 23 is detected, and executes the destination floor registration process using the floor data. You may do it.

  Instead of the IC card 23, a mobile terminal device or the like may be used. Further, the data of the IC card may be read when the user holds the IC card 23 over the detection unit 24, or when the user approaches a detection device such as the detection unit 23, the data of the IC card is specially selected. It may be automatically read without requiring the operation.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram illustrating a control system for the group management elevator apparatus according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

  In addition to the configuration shown in FIG. 3, the group management control device in the present embodiment has a space in which a passenger gets into the car after extracting the travel time data for each physical disability attribute by the travel time extraction unit 12. A car space determination unit 29 is provided for determining whether or not the Since the other configuration is the same as the configuration of FIG. 3, the same reference numerals are given to equivalent components and detailed description thereof is omitted.

  Before allocating elevators by the unit allocation unit 13, the in-car space determination unit 29 determines whether or not there is an empty space in which passengers can get in the elevator cars. The car assigning unit 13 that has received a signal indicating the elevator that has been determined that there is a boarding space from the in-car space judging unit 29 is assigned an empty space by the in-car space judging unit 29 when assigning the elevator car to the destination floor and the hall call. A suitable elevator is assigned only to elevators determined to have a space. Therefore, the passenger can surely get into the assigned elevator car. Here, if the size of the space is set according to the attribute of the physical disability, an elevator having a sufficient empty space according to the attribute can be allocated in the car. As a result, the riding comfort of the user is improved.

  FIG. 11 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating an example of a space determination device used for the determination process in the car space determination unit 29 described above. The camera 26 is installed in the car 25, and the car space determination unit 29 described above performs image processing on the image data captured by the camera 26 to determine whether or not there is an empty space 27 in the car 25. To do.

  FIG. 12: is a schematic block diagram which shows the in-car space determination apparatus in the group management elevator apparatus which is Example 4 of this invention. The fourth embodiment is different from the third embodiment in the configuration of the car space determination apparatus, but the other configurations are the same as those in the third embodiment.

  In the fourth embodiment, the car 25 includes a load detection device 28 that detects a loaded load. The car space determination unit 29 described above determines whether or not there is an empty space in which the passenger can enter the car 25 based on the detection value of the load detection device 28.

  The in-car space determination unit 29 determines the presence / absence and size of an empty space from the detection value by the load detection device 28, the allowable load load, the average weight, etc., and selects an elevator having sufficient empty space for a passenger to enter. Identify. When allocating elevators, the number allocating unit 13 receives the determination result from the car space determining unit 29, and only the elevators in which sufficient empty space is detected are targeted for allocation. As a result, as in the third embodiment, the ride comfort for the user is improved.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the Example mentioned above, Various modifications are included. For example, the above-described embodiments have been described in detail for easy understanding of the present invention, and are not necessarily limited to those having all the configurations described. Further, a part of the configuration of one embodiment can be replaced with the configuration of another embodiment, and the configuration of another embodiment can be added to the configuration of one embodiment. Further, it is possible to add, delete, and replace other configurations for a part of the configuration of each embodiment.

  For example, in the destination floor registration device 2, a physical disability notification button 8 may be provided for each attribute, and the physical disability attribute may be determined based on a notification signal from the pressed button.

  Further, the image camera 5 in FIG. 1 may be attached to the destination floor registration device 2.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Operation surface 2 Destination floor registration apparatus 3 Arrival lamp 4 Output apparatus 5 Image camera 6 Output part 7 Floor button 8 Physical disorder notification button 9 Physical disorder confirmation part 10 Physical disorder attribute determination part 11 Travel time data storage part 12 Travel time extraction Unit 13 Unit allocation unit 14 Output notification unit 15 Elevator unit control panel 16 Door opening / closing time adjustment unit 17 Storage unit 18 Control unit 19 Output guidance control unit 20 Arrival light control unit 21 User 22 User 23 IC card 24 Detection unit 25 Car 26 Camera 27 Empty space 28 Load detection device 29 Car space determination unit 30 Control system 31 Group management control device 40 Wristband sensor 41 Band

Claims (11)

A plurality of elevators, a destination floor registration device located on a landing floor, and a group management control device that assigns any of the plurality of elevators to a destination floor registered by operation of the destination floor registration device In group management elevator equipment,
The group management control device includes:
A data storage unit for storing a plurality of control information for a plurality of physical disability attributes;
A physical disability attribute determination unit for determining the physical disability attribute of the user;
With
Control information corresponding to the physical disability attribute of the user determined by the physical disability determination unit is extracted from the data storage unit, and based on the extracted control information, the control information of the plurality of elevators A group management elevator apparatus characterized in that either one is assigned to the destination floor.   The group management elevator apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the physical disability attribute determination unit determines the physical disability attribute based on an image of a user who operates the destination floor registration apparatus.   The group management elevator apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the physical disability attribute determination unit determines the physical disability attribute based on data read from a data storage device carried by a user. In any one of Claims 1 thru | or 3,
The control information includes a travel time from the destination floor registration device to the elevator,
The group management control device assigns, to the destination floor, an elevator car in which a car arrives on the landing floor after the travel time has elapsed.   5. The group management elevator apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the group management control apparatus assigns the elevator number to the destination floor in consideration of the waiting time of the user after the travel time has elapsed.   The group management elevator apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the travel time is set for each of the plurality of elevators. In claim 4,
The control information further includes a boarding time required for the user to get into the car,
The group management control device extends the door opening time when the boarding time is longer than the door opening time of an elevator assigned to the destination floor.   The group management elevator device according to claim 7, wherein the boarding time is corrected based on an image of a passenger in front of an elevator assigned to the destination floor.   The group management elevator device according to claim 4, wherein the travel time is corrected based on a physical condition of a user.   The group management elevator apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the boarding time is corrected based on a physical condition of a user.   5. The group management elevator apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the group management control apparatus allocates an elevator number having an empty space in which a passenger can get into a car to the destination floor.

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