Abstract:

The complex strategy in traditional elevator scheduling process results in the difficulty of fitting passengers’ information changes. Therefore, a novel elevator scheduling algorithm based on information fusion technology was proposed in this paper. On the basis of analyzing change trends of passenger flow, the elevator motion direction is decided by combining global decision and stepbystep scheduling. The proposed algorithm improves the traditional elevator scheduling strategy by effectively considering the demands of passenger flow and the supply of the elevator resources. Real examples analysis demonstrates that the algorithm outperforms the traditional methods and indeed effectively improves the quality-of-service of elevators.          

Key words: elevator scheduling;information fusion;step by step scheduling;quality of service