Elevator control device and control method

Abstract

In elevators where robots are permitted to ride alongside passengers, this invention creates an environment that facilitates the robot's disembarkation from the elevator car. [Solution] When a robot is traveling in a train car, at the robot's disembarking floor, the train car is brought to the station with the target lantern, which is the hall lantern corresponding to the train car's next departure direction, turned off. On the other hand, even when a robot is traveling in a train car, at floors other than the robot's disembarking floor among the scheduled stops for the train car, the train car is brought to the station with the hall lantern corresponding to the train car's next departure direction turned on or flashing.

Claims

1. If a robot is traveling in a ride car, at the robot's disembarking floor, the ride car will arrive with the target lantern, which is the hall lantern corresponding to the next departure direction for that ride car, turned off. An elevator control device that, even when a robot is riding in the elevator car, causes the elevator car to arrive at floors other than the robot's disembarking floor among the scheduled stopping floors with the hall lantern corresponding to the next departure direction of the elevator car illuminated or flashing.

2. The elevator control device according to claim 1, wherein if the elevator car arrives at the robot's disembarking floor with the target lantern still turned off, the control device then turns on the target lantern when the robot has completed disembarking at that floor.

3. The elevator control device according to claim 1, wherein when the elevator car arrives at the robot's disembarking floor with the target lantern turned off, if a landing button specifying the same direction as the next departure direction of the elevator car is pressed at the disembarking floor between the completion of the elevator car doors opening and the completion of the robot's disembarkation, the target lantern is turned on.

4. An elevator control device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein when the elevator car arrives at the robot's disembarking floor with the target lantern in a state of being turned off, if a landing button specifying the same direction as the next departure direction of the elevator car is pressed at the disembarking floor between the time the elevator car arrives and the opening of the elevator car doors is completed, the control device maintains the target lantern in a state of being turned off at that time, and then turns on the target lantern when the opening of the elevator car doors is completed.

5. The elevator control device according to claim 1, wherein if the elevator car arrives at the robot's disembarking floor with the target lantern in a state of being turned off, the target lantern remains turned off until the elevator car doors are opened, even if a landing button specifying the same direction as the next departure direction of the elevator car is pressed at that disembarking floor, and then, when the elevator car doors are opened, the target lantern is turned on regardless of whether the landing button had been pressed up to that point.

6. An elevator control device according to any one of claims 2, 3, and 5, wherein if the elevator car arrives at the robot's disembarking floor with the target lantern still turned off, and the target lantern is subsequently turned on, the device causes the target lantern to flash when the elevator car doors begin to close.

7. If a robot is traveling in a ride car, at the robot's disembarking floor, the ride car will arrive with the target lantern, which is the hall lantern corresponding to the next departure direction for that ride car, turned off. An elevator control method that, even when a robot is riding in the elevator car, causes the elevator car to arrive at floors other than the robot's disembarking floor among the scheduled stopping floors with the hall lantern corresponding to the next departure direction of the elevator car illuminated or flashing.

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