An elevator group supervisory controller is a control system that manages systematically two or more elevators in order to serve passengers as required. The elevator cars are assigned accordingly in response to hall calls, so as to optimize waiting time, riding time, power consumption, passengers’ comfort, etc. In this paper, the simplicity of ordinal structure fuzzy logic in making crucial sup...

Reinforcement learning (RL) comprises an array of techniques that learn a control policy so as to maximize a reward signal. When applied to the control of elevator systems, RL has the potential of finding better control policies than classical heuristic, suboptimal policies. On the other hand, elevator systems offer an interesting benchmark application for the study of RL. In this paper, RL is ...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the occurrence of deaths directly associated with urban violence among fatal work-related accidents. METHODS Verbal autopsies were performed with the relatives and coworkers of residents of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil, who died from external causes in 2015. We have also analyzed police reports and reports of the Legal Medical Institute related to these deaths. ...

The passenger service level in an elevator system depends on the planning of the elevator group and on the control of the elevators. In this thesis the contribution of passenger and elevator traffic for an elevator group with multiple shafts is studied by simulations and theoretical analysis. During this work an elevator control system, the Traffic Master System 9000 (TMS9000), was developed. T...

OBJECTIVE Previous research has indicated that there is an increased risk of fatal accidents in veterans of military operations and that such accidental deaths may be related to mental health problems. This study was conducted to investigate fatal accidents in Norwegian former peacekeepers. METHODS A subgroup of alcohol-related fatal accidents was identified. Interview data with next of kin, ...

Fault tree analysis is often used in elevator fault diagnosis because of its simplicity and reliability. However, the traditional method has problems low efficiency due to ignoring location change bottom events during troubleshooting. This paper proposes a rapid based on multiattribute decision making solve problem. The system constructed expert knowledge multisource data, location-related matr...

to evaluate the germination traits and mechanical damage of soybean seed during processing stages, anexperiment was conducted in a factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with 18treatments at mazandaran province (sari) in 2009-10. the experiment factors included different seedprocessing stages (before cleaning, after elevator, after pre cleaning, after cleaning, after drying ...