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Koopa Bros. "Delta Formation"
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I have been working at Vector Marketing full-time (less than a year)
You make your own schedule and can do as many hours as you want to contribute per week. You also have the opportunity to advance in the company. I've been with the company as a sales rep for the summer, and I've learned a lot.
It can take over your entire life very easily if you let it. You make your own schedule, so you have to make sure that you give yourself time off and don't think about work during your time off. The pay is also sometimes not dependable because if you do not book enough appointments for the week or have no-sales, then you won't make much that week.
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Telephone employee was incredibly rude and ended up hanging up on me for the reason i had to reschedule.Advice to ManagementAdvice
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I worked at Vector Marketing part-time (less than a year)Pros
Maybe to list this experience on my resume, because i have no sale experience and I'm glad I'm not their slave any more.Cons
1. Hire any body
2. The office is stink
3. I make $400 for the whole time i was there, but spend about $1000 to buy their products
4. Make $16.25/ hr, if you don't sale any products the manager looks at you like you lying for money.
5. No gas money or phone money
6. training time isn't paid
7. No co-worker is friendly to you, they look at you as their own competitor
8. I got yell at from my friends because i give their phone number as leads
9. Crazy life
10. All they want from you is your money, leads
11. they give you no lead, every lead is your own
12. My manager ran away after i quit
13. they have lot of training and classes but they won't pay you
14. making phone call all the time
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Any way i can go on and on but in conclusion Don't waste your time there because it's not worth it.Advice to ManagementAdvice
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Growth hormone releasing hexapeptide
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Growth hormone releasing hexapeptide (GHRP6) is one of several synthetic met-enkephalin analogs that include unnatural D-amino acids, were developed for their growth hormone (GH) releasing activity and are called GH secretagogues. They lack opioid activity but are potent stimulators of GH release. These secretagogues are distinct from growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) in that they share no sequence relation and derive their function through action at a completely different receptor. This receptor was originally called the GH secretagogue receptor, but due to subsequent discoveries, the hormone ghrelin is now considered the receptor's natural endogenous ligand. Therefore, these GH secretagogues act as synthetic ghrelin mimetics.
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It has also been discovered that when GHRP-6 and insulin are used simultaneously, GH response to GHRP-6 is increased (1). However, the consumption of carbohydrates and/or dietary fats, around the administration window of GH secretagogues significantly blunts the GH release. A recent study in normal mice showed significant differences in body composition, muscle growth, glucose metabolism, memory and cardiac function in the mice being administered the GHRP-6 (2). There are still many questions regarding this fairly new compound, scientists are hoping to gain a better clinical understanding of the peptide through further research over the next few years.
GH secretagogues differ from exogenous rHGH in their effects primarily due to the fact that endogenous GH contains all 5 isoforms of growth hormone, whereas exogenous GH contains only the 20 kilodalton isoform. Different isoforms affect tissues in discreet ways that the 20 kDa isoform cannot. Administration of GH secretagogues causes a pulse-release of GH from the pituitary which is cleared from the body within a few hours. This does not significantly raise plasma IGF1 levels.
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- Camanni, F; Ghigo, E; Arvat, E (1998). "Growth hormone-releasing peptides and their analogs". Frontiers in neuroendocrinology 19 (1): 47–72. doi:10.1006/frne.1997.0158. PMID 9465289.
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What is a great landscape plant that will add color to my yard, too?
Common sense goes a long way in packing foods safely for outdoor dining. Whether you are packing up to go to Lake Lanier, the park or to the backyard, the same principles apply.
Not long ago, headed down Interstate 20 somewhere near Augusta, I saw a sight not particularly unusual but thought-provoking, nonetheless. One detail caught my attention.
While the weather is warm and muggy, there is still much to do in the landscape and garden.
Yep, it's summer. If you don't believe the thermometer and the humidity indicator, just check your personal sweat factor.
I love to cook summer squash because it is such a versatile vegetable. I have hundreds of recipes from zucchini bread to stuffed squash boats and of course, my grandmother's squash and Vidalia onion casserole.
Not that I know everything. Not that I even know many things.
To find out what homes in your neighborhood are selling for, check out Domania. Believe it or not, people are buying houses.
Becoming first-time parents is a significant experience, personally and for your marriage.
"What's wrong with my tree?"
What is a beneficial insect?
Never have I been interested in estate sales or bothered to attend one. But the two-day sale of Miss Henrietta's life caught my attention when, by chance, I happened to see it in the newspaper classifieds.
Here's more material that just arrived in the mailroom at the top-secret underground location of the Rosemond One-World Flawless Parenting Headquarters.
It's summer, which means it's time to hit the pool and the lake. If you or your children have a problem with water getting trapped in your ears, I've got the solution: Clear Ears. They're small sponge-like earplugs you put in your ears AFTER swimming. The plugs pull the water out of your ears in less than 10 minutes. You can find them at most drugstores or online at Cirrus Healthcare Products. By the way, this company also makes another product I really like. It's called EarPlanes. These cool earplugs help regulate the air pressure ...
We were feeding the ducks at a local park. We'd gotten bread and walked down to the water's edge. I gave Chloe and Cole some bread, then stood by and watched them.
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I recommend people having pets.
The region that is North Georgia today was explored a long time ago. As early as the 1540s, Spanish explorers trekked through the Cartersville area looking for gold. None was found there, but we have a golden treasure that's well worth preserving: our native trees.
Recycling in the garden (composting) and using mulch makes common sense for the landscapes.
Several weeks ago, we were at dinner with some friends and the conversation turned to life's most embarrassing moments.
You've frequently read my recommendations on keeping your pet healthy and saving yourself a ton of hassle. Most of these are applicable to the majority of pets and owners.
Once, while we were on a trip to see Amy's folks in Texas, we stopped at a store to stretch our legs and take a bathroom break. When we walked inside, we saw a large display of polished rocks.
So far, March has shown above-average precipitation totals in North Georgia. Based on the historic record, we also have plenty of rain showers to look forward to in April.
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... it was to be there. To be in the Czech area knowing that my great-grandparents were born and lived in Bohemia made me wonder what their lives were like.
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It's funny how the apparently stock cab and hood give this Mercedes a look that is very close to the original American classic.
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Anyone know Slovak? May be a "bad word".
A relative has called another relative something bad in Slovak or Chzech. I want to know what it is. Online searches are fruitless. I will try to write it as it sounds, but is probably spelled different than I think it is. Here goes: Null pole. Null as in null and void. And pole as "telephone pole". I hope someone knows the answer, and I know it is something bad. I will not tell the person about it unless it is not really bad. Thanks to anyone who can help.
I can ask my brother. He knows more Czech than I do. My Czech vocabulary is extremely limited. I only learned and retrained a few words and phrases my father taught me. He didn't teach us us the language and used it when talking to his mother & siblings when they didn't want us to know what they were talking about. I can sing in Czech however, having learned many songs from my father when we listened to his favorite music together. The phrase you are asking about doesn't sound familiar in the spoken, written or lyrical Czech I know.
According to my husband, who grew up in a Czech speaking household, it doesn't sound like any slang or curse words that he's ever heard, and he's heard plenty... although, he said it might be from a Russian dialect that he isn't familiar with. There are many different dialects within that area of the world.
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The words were between 2 women relatives, one a mother and the other her daughter. So no male insults apply. The spelling I used was how it sounded when heard, and probably was spelled very different in Slovak or Chzech. I may be suspecting it was a cuss word. It was an insult for sure though. When the daughter asked as an adult, her mom said she can't say. The pronunciation in Slovak sounds like the English words "Null pull" or Pole. The child is not Polish, so the slang Pole used at the time which would have been in the 1950's, should not apply. The daughter was the apple of her fathers eye, not in a funny or improper way, but the mother would be almost jealous of how the child was loved by her father. There was nothing but normal father and child love going on but the mother was a real Bi**H and slapped the daughter and said, "Your just like him" and if she told on her for slapping her she would get it worse. Thanks all who replied, I just wondered if anyone knew what these words meant.
Well, I guess I may never get the answer to this question. The mother in this scenario is dead. I have tried web searching the words and got hits to a site with bare-chested Chezch women. I am a Hetero (man lovin) woman. If it is an insult from mother to daughter, that's no surprise. I just am curiuos if it meant something more than a HORRIBLE woman degrading her daughter for being a daughter instead of a son. This hag worshipped her son and thought her son was so wonderful. The child (girl) was my mother. Come on now I hope someone can shed some light.


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A near-optimal scheduling method for a group of elevators uses advance traffic information. More particularly, advance traffic information is used to define a snapshot problem (24) in which the objective is to improve performance for customers. To solve the snapshot problem (24), the objective function is transformed into a form to facilitate the decomposition of the problem into individual car subproblems (26). The subproblems (26) are independently solved using a two-level formulation, with passenger to car assignment (28) at the higher level, and the dispatching of individual cars (30) at the lower level. Near-optimal passenger selection and individual car routing (38) are obtained. The individual cars are then coordinated through an iterative process (40, 42) to arrive at a group control solution that achieves a near-optimal result for passengers.
1. A method for scheduling a group of elevators, the method comprising:
modeling passenger traffic information representing actual and predicted requests for service within a look-ahead time window to create a snapshot problem; and
solving the snapshot problem by minimizing an objective function based on total service time of all passengers in the snapshot problem to determine passenger to car assignments and car dispatching.
2. The method of
selecting optional passenger to car assignments for each elevator car; and
determining optimal dispatching of individual cars based on the selected passenger to car assignments using car simulation models.
3. The method of
4. The method of
and for passenger i, Ti=αTi W+βTi, where α and β are weights Ti W is a wait time, and Ti T is a transit time.
5. The method of
transforming the objective function into a form to facilitate the decomposition of the snapshot problem;
applying Lagrangian relaxation to the transformed objective function and the coupling passenger-to-car assignment constraints to form a Lagrangian dual function; and
solving the Lagrangian dual function within a surrogate optimization framework.
6. The method of
obtaining individual car subproblems through a relaxation of passenger-car assignment constraints;
solving subproblems independently by using a local search method;
coordinating individual cars through iterative updating of multipliers by using surrogate optimization; and
constructing feasible assignments if passenger-to-car assignment constraints are violated at the stopping of the multiplier updating iterations by using heuristics for near-optimal solutions.
7. The method of
evaluating and ranking passenger selections by using heuristics; and
based on the ranking, evaluating top selections for exact performance by using dynamic programming.
8. The method of
9. The method of
10. The method of
11. A method for scheduling a group of elevators, the method comprising:
receiving passenger traffic information representing actual and predicted requests for service;
forming an objective function based on total service time of all unassigned passengers within a look-ahead time window;
transforming the objective function into an additive form to facilitate decomposition of the snapshot problem;
applying Lagrangian relaxation to the transformed objective function;
iteratively solving single car subproblems and updating Lagrangian multipliers; and
selecting passenger-car assignments and car dispatching for each car.
12. The method of
13. The method of
and for passenger i, Ti=αTi W+βTi, where α and β are weights, Ti W is a wait time, and Ti T is a transit time.
14. A method of controlling operation of a group of elevators, the method comprising:
receiving passenger traffic information representing actual and predicted requests for service;
selecting, in real time, assignments of passengers to cars and dispatching of cars, based upon the passenger traffic information, individual car simulation models that include car capacity constraints and car dynamics information, and an objective function that is a weighted sum of performance metrics; and
dispatching cars based on the selecting.
15. The method of
making an optimal selection of passenger assignments; and
determining car performance for each passenger assignment.
16. The method of
17. The method of
and for passenger i, Ti=αTi W+βTi, where α and β are weights, Ti W is a wait time, and Ti T is a transit time.
18. The method of
modeling passenger traffic information to a current state of the elevator group to create a snapshot problem, wherein the snapshot problem includes a passenger assignment constraint requiring each passenger to be assigned to a single car; and
solving the snapshot problem to optimize an objective function by:
relaxing the passenger assignment constraint to transform the snapshot problem into a relaxed problem;
decomposing the relaxed problem into independent car subproblems; and
solving all independent car subproblems to generate passenger assignments.
19. The method of
supplementing the_passenger traffic information with statistical information; and
releasing elevators based upon elevator release constraints relating to elevator inter-departure time and filling of a percentage of elevator capacity.
20. The method of
dividing building floors into zones;
identifying zones where elevators are likely to be needed; and
parking elevators at the identified zones.
21. The method of
including within the objective function an egress-time subproblem.
This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/671,698, filed Apr. 15, 2005, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
The invention relates to the field of elevator control, and in particular to the scheduling of elevators operating as a group in a building.
Group elevator scheduling has long been recognized as an important issue for transportation efficiency. The problem, however, is difficult because of hybrid system dynamics, combinatorial explosion of the state and decision spaces, time-varying and uncertain passenger demand, strict operational constraints, and realtime computational requirements for online scheduling.
Recently, elevator systems with destination entry have been introduced. In a destination entry system, passengers are asked to register their destination floors before they are serviced. More information is thus available for group elevator scheduling, since passenger destinations are now known when deciding on car assignments. Furthermore, with the progress in information technology, one promising direction is to use advance traffic information from various new sensor or demand estimation technologies to reduce uncertainties and significantly improve the performance. Near-optimal scheduling with advance traffic information will lead to better performance as compared to scheduling determined without the use of advance traffic information.
The subject invention is directed to a scheduling method for a group of elevators using advanced traffic information. More particularly, advanced traffic information is used to define a snapshot problem in which the objective is to improve performance for customers. To solve the snapshot problem, the objective function is transformed into a form to facilitate the decomposition of the problem into individual car subproblems. The subproblems are independently solved using a two-level formulation, with passenger to car assignment at the higher level, and the dispatching of individual cars at the low level. Near-optimal passenger selection and individual car routing are obtained. The individual cars are then coordinated through an iterative process to arrive at a group control solution that achieves a near-optimal result for passengers. The method can be extended to cases with little or no advance information; operation of elevator parking; and coordinated emergency evacuation.
Group elevator control 14 receives demand information inputs that provide information about an ti arrival time of passenger i, an arrival floor fi a for passenger i, and a destination floor fi d for passenger i. One source of traffic information inputs is a destination entry system having a keypad located at a distance from the elevators, so that the passenger requests service by keying in the destination floor prior to boarding the elevator. Other sources of advance traffic information include sensors in a corridor leading to the landing, video cameras, identification card readers, and computer systems networked to the group elevator control to provide advance reservations or requests for cars to specific destination floors based upon predicted demand. For example, a hotel conference schedule system can interface with group elevator control 14 to provide information as to when meetings will start or end and therefore generate a demand for elevator service.
Group elevator control 14 is a computer-based system that makes use of expected or known future traffic demands to make decisions on how to assign passengers to cars, and how to dispatch cars to pick up and deliver the passengers. Using advance traffic information, group elevator control 14 provides enhanced performance of the elevators in serving passengers. One among several possible choices for performance metric is to reduce the total service time of all passengers requesting service. This, or any other, objective must be met in a way that is consistent with passenger-car assignment constraints and car capacity constraints, and obeys car dynamics.
Advance traffic information is used by group elevator control 14 to select information from the inputs that falls within a window. With each window snapshot, the advance traffic information is used to formulate an objective function that optimizes customer performance.
In operating an elevator group, such as shown in
This coupled yet separable problem structure is used by group elevator control 14 to establish a simple, yet innovative, two-tier formulation: passenger assignment is at the higher level, and single car dispatching is at the lower level.
The elevator dispatching problem is decomposed into individual car subproblems through the relaxation of passenger-car assignments constraints. Then, for each car, a search is performed to select the best set of passengers to be served by that car. Single car dynamics and car capacity constraints are embedded in a single car simulation model to yield the best set of passengers with the best performance for each car. The results for the individual cars are then coordinated through an iterative process of updating multipliers to arrive at a near-optimal solution for customers. The above method can be extended to cases with little or no advance information; operation of elevator parking; and coordinated emergency evacuation.
Look-ahead windows are used to model advance demand information, where known or estimated traffic within the window is considered. Passenger-to-car assignment constraints are established as linear inequality constraints, and are �coupling� constraints since individual cars are coupled through serving a common pool of passengers. Car capacity constraints and car dynamics are embedded within individual car simulation models. The objective function is flexible within a range of passenger-wise, car-wise and building-wise measures, e.g., passenger wait time, service time or elevator energy required, or number of car stops experienced during a passenger trip.
As illustrated by the example shown in
Advance traffic information is modeled by a look-ahead window. Advance traffic information as specified by the arrival time ti a, the arrival floor fi a, and the destination floor fi d of each passenger i who arrives within the window is assumed known. Advance traffic information may be distinguished from the current state of the elevator group in that advance traffic information relates to passengers not yet assigned to a car. Cases with different amounts of advance traffic information, such as those resulting from different passenger interfaces or demand estimation methods, can be handled by adjusting the window size. A rolling horizon scheme is then used in conjunction with windows, and snapshot problems are re-solved periodically or as needed. For a snapshot problem, let Sp denote the set of Ip passengers who have been picked up but not yet delivered to their destination floors, and Sc the set of Ic passengers who have not yet been picked up. Together there are I passengers (I=Ic+Ip) to be delivered to their destination floors. This method allows great flexibility in choosing when to commit to an assignment. The amount Ic of passengers can vary between 1 and I, allowing for various commitment policies. Once the problem is solved, group elevator control 14 will only commit to the assignment of a subset of Ic passengers who will be picked up before the next rescheduling point, and will postpone commitments of other passengers.
Constraints to be considered include coupling constraints among cars and individual car constraints. The former includes passenger-to-car assignment constraints stating that each passenger must be assigned to one and only one car, i.e.,
In view that the number of variables {ζijt} is large and the function φ could be too complicated to describe, constraints (2) and (3) are not explicitly represented but are embedded in simulation models of individual cars. Other elevator parameters such as door opening time, door dwell time (the minimum time interval that the doors keep open), door closing time, and loading and unloading times per passenger are also used in the simulation models.
The objective for group elevator control 14 is that scheduling shall lead to higher customer (passengers or building managers) satisfaction in terms of certain performance criteria. One possibility enabled by this method is to focus on a weighted sum of wait time. For example, for passenger i, the wait time Ti W is the time interval between passenger i's arrival time and the pickup time (Ti W≡ti p−ti a), the transit time is the time interval between the pickup time and the departure time (TT i≡ti d−ti p). The service time Ti is the sum of the above two, or the difference between the arrival time and the departure time (Ti S≡ti d−ti a). The time definitions are shown in
In the above, α and β are weights specified by designers. Note that when α=β=1, then Ti=Ti s; and when α=1 and β=0, then Ti=Ti w. Also note that the objective function can include other performance metrics such as the energy required to move the elevators and the number of stops made by the elevators. The optimization of the objective function (4) is subject to constraints (1), (2) and (3). This example should not be read as limiting the use of other constraints.
The formulation of the objective function is applicable to arbitrary building configurations and traffic patterns since no specific assumption has been made about them.
As described herein, the coupling passenger-car assignment constraints (1) are linear inequality constraints, and car capacity constraints (2) and car dynamics (3) are embedded within individual car simulation models. The objective function (4) is therefore first transformed into a form to facilitate the decomposition of the problem into individual car subproblems. A decomposition and coordination approach is then developed through the relaxation of coupling passenger-car assignment constraints (1) resulting in independent car subproblems. A car subproblem computes the sensitivity of passenger assignments to the car on system performance. This is accomplished in a series of steps. The first step is to decide which passengers are assigned to the particular car. This assignment step can be solved using a local search method. In one such method, passenger selections are first quickly evaluated and ranked by using heuristics based on the ordinal optimization concept that ranking is robust even with rough evaluations, as known in the art. With this ranking information, top selections are evaluated for exact performance by dynamic programming to optimize single car dispatching. Within the surrogate optimization framework, a selection �better� than the previous one is �good enough� to set multiplier updating directions. Individual cars are then coordinated through the iterative updating of multipliers by using surrogate optimization for near-optimal solutions. The framework of this approach is shown in
To decompose the objective function (4) into individual car subproblems, the objective function should be additive in terms of individual cars. The objective function in (4) is therefore rewritten by using (1):
With this additive form, assignment constraints (1) are relaxed by using nonnegative Lagrange multipliers {λi}:
A novel and efficient approach is used to solve the subproblem (8) for car j. Car subproblem (8) is to obtain an optimal passenger selection and an optimal routing of selected passengers for a given set of multipliers. In view of the large search space involved, it is difficult to obtain optimal solutions. Nevertheless, based on the surrogate sub-gradient method, approximate optimization of only one or a few subproblems under certain conditions is sufficient to generate a proper direction to update the multipliers. See, X. Zhao, P. B. Luh, and J. Wang, �The Surrogate Gradient Algorithm for Lagrangian Relaxation Method,� Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 100, No. 3, March 1999, pp. 699-712. By utilizing this property, the goal is to obtain a better passenger selection with an effective dispatching of the selected passengers by using a local search method. Subproblems are independently solved by using a local search method in conjunction with heuristics and dynamic programming.
An example of an embodiment of passenger assignment 28 shown in
In local search 50, passenger selections are first quickly evaluated and ranked by using heuristics based on the ordinal optimization concept that ranking is robust even with rough evaluations.
The top candidate from local search 50 is then evaluated by single car model 30 for exact performance as shown in
The pseudo code of the local search procedure is shown in TABLE 1.
The performance resulting from a particular choice of passenger to car assignments can be evaluated once a policy for single car routing has been defined. This method allows any choice of single car routing policy. For example, a popular single car routing policy known as full collective, as known in the art.
In one method to solve the problem (equation 9), the single car model 30 is implemented as a simulation-based dynamic programming (DP) method that optimizes the car trajectory and evaluates the passenger selection. A specific example of single car model 30 that can be used has a novel definition of DP stages, states, decisions, and costs to reduce computational requirements, as is described below. The key idea is that for a one-way trip, if the stop floors are given, then the car trajectory is uniquely specified. With this, a stage is defined to be a one-way trip of the car without changing its direction.
For a stage starting at time tk, a DP state includes the car position fj at tk, the car direction dj, and the status of the set Sk of passengers that have not yet been delivered to their destination floors at tk (the status of passenger i includes the arrival time ti a, the arrival floor fi a, and the destination floor fi d). The state is thus represented by
The decisions for a state include stop floors, the reversal floor where the car changes its direction, and passengers to be delivered in the current stage (limited to those traveling between the stop floors). The decision can thus be represented by Uk={ui|∀iεSk}, where ui is a zero-one decision variable equal to one if passenger i is delivered to the destination floor in stage k and equal to zero otherwise. For passengers already inside car j at tk, ui always equals one. For passengers with identical arrival and departure floors, they are picked up according to the first-come-first-serve rule.
Focusing on waiting time and transit time performance metrics for the purpose of illustration, given Xk and Uk, the pick up time ti p and the departure time ti d of passengers delivered in stage k and the start time tk+1 of stage k+1 are obtained through single car simulation. Note that for each passenger, the wait time or transit time is additive over his/her time delay in each stage (i.e., each one-way trip). Therefore the objective function in (9)�a weighted sum of wait times and transit times of all passengers�can be divided into stages as follows.
With the above definitions, an optimal trajectory for single dispatching is obtained by using forward dynamic programming.
Based on the surrogate subgradient method, approximate optimization of only one or a few subproblems under certain conditions is sufficient to generate a proper direction to update the multipliers. First, all the subproblems should be minimized at the initial iteration. A quick way to initialize multipliers is based on the observation that when {□i}0={0}, the optimal solution for all the subproblems is {□ij*|∀j}0={0} (See pseudo code in TABLE 2). The initial values of {□i}0 and {δij}0 can thus be easily obtained. Given the current solution ({□i}k, {δij}k) at the kth iteration, the surrogate dual is
The Lagrangian multipliers are updated according to
To estimate the optimal dual L*, a feasible {δij}k is constructed every five iterations and the feasible cost is evaluated. At the kth iteration, Pk is then defined as the minimal feasible cost obtained so far. In view that Pk is a upper bound of L− and the surrogate dual is a lower bound of L*, the optimal dual is estimated as follow,
With the estimated optimal dual cost, the step size is
Given {□i}k+1, choose car subproblem j (j=k mod J) and perform �approximate optimization� to obtain {□ij}k+1 by using local search in conjunction with heuristics and DP (See Table 2) such that {□ij}k+1 satisfies
Thus {□ij}k+1 for car j (j=k mod J) is obtained while {□ij′|j′≠j}k+1 for other cars are kept at their latest available values. With the updated values {□i}k+1 and {δij}k+1, the process repeats.
If the duality gap is less than □ or the maximum number of iterations has been reached, the algorithm stops. For a case with a large time window, the upper bound on the number of iterations is removed. The reason is that this case is for offline optimization, and the major concern is solution optimality as opposed to the CPU time.
If the algorithm stops with an infeasible solution, a heuristic rule is used to construct a feasible solution as follows,
A rolling horizon scheme is used in conjunction with windows. Snapshot problems are re-solved periodically.
(Cases with Little or No Future Traffic Information)
For cases with little or no future traffic information as modeled by having small or zero time windows, the optimization of the above snapshot problems is �myopic,� and the overall performance may not be good. For example, suppose that there are four elevators available at the lobby and four passengers with different destination floors arrived at the lobby about the same time in up-peak traffic. The �best� decision for this snapshot problem, e.g., to minimize the total service time, would be to dispatch one elevator for each passenger. This, however, would result in �bunching� of elevators, i.e., elevators moving close to each other. Passengers who arrive a little bit later than the fourth passenger then would have to wait till one of the elevators returns to the lobby, resulting in poor overall performance. Bunching is less of an issue for cases with sufficient future information.
Another concern is to reduce passenger wait time for two-way traffic with low passenger arrivals and little or no future information. It has been shown that performance can be improved by �parking� elevators in advance at floors where elevators are likely to be needed. Our method presented above has been extended to address these two issues in a coherent manner.
(An Optimization-Statistical Method for Up-Peak)
To overcome the myopic difficulty of snapshot solutions for up-peak with little or no future traffic information, consider a stationary model where passengers arrive at a time-invariant rate with a given destination floor distribution. Based on a statistical analysis, it has been shown that good steady-state performance can be achieved for such up-peak traffic by releasing elevators from the lobby at an equal time interval, assuming that elevator capacity is sufficient to accommodate new arrivals within the elevator �inter-departure time.� This inter-departure time is calculated as the round trip time of a single elevator divided by the number of elevators, with the round trip time depending on traffic statistics.
Based on the above, the method presented above is strengthened by incorporating online statistical information beyond what is available within the time window, and by adopting the inter-departure time concept. The resulting �optimization-statistical method� for up-peak is to add two �elevator release conditions� to the formulation to space elevator departures from the lobby. Specifically, for an even flow of passengers, elevators are held at the lobby and are released every inter-departure time T, i.e.,
To solve the problem, the decomposition and coordination approach presented above is used, and the above two conditions (19) and (20) are used to trigger the release of elevators at the lobby when solving individual subproblems within the surrogate optimization framework. Specifically, when solving a particular elevator subproblem, decisions of other subproblems are taken at their latest available values, and the two release conditions are incorporated within the local search procedure.
(Parking Strategy for Two-Way with a Low Arrival Rate)
To develop a parking strategy for two-way traffic with little or no future information, our idea is to divide the building into a number of non-overlapping �zones,� each consisting of a set of contiguous floors. Probabilities that the next passenger would arrive at individual zones are estimated, and �free� elevators without passenger assignments are parked at zones where they are likely to be needed. To avoid excessive move of elevators, floors in the same zone are not differentiated.
Specifically, suppose that an elevator becomes free, making the total number of free elevators J′, where 1≦J′≦J. The probability that the next passenger would arrive at floor f, Pf, is estimated statistically based on recent arrival information, and the probability that the next passenger would arrive at zone n is
In addition to good performance during normal operations, group elevator scheduling has a new significance on speedy egress driven by homeland security concerns. In a high-rise building, stairs are inefficient for emergency evacuation because they become congested, people slow down during the long distance from top floors to the ground, and the elderly and disabled might not be able to use stairs at all. H. Hakonen, �Simulation of Building Traffic and Evacuation by Elevators,� Licentiate Thesis, Department of Engineering Physics and Mathematics, Helsinki University of Technology, 2003. The potential of using �safe elevators� for evacuation has been demonstrated for certain cases such as the detection of chemical or biological agents, or fires in one wing of a building J. Koshak, �Elevator Evacuation in Emergency Situations,� Proceedings of Workshop on Use of Elevators in Fires and Other Emergencies, Atlanta, Ga., March, 2004, pp. 2-4. Coordinated emergency evacuation is a key egress method, where occupants at each floor are evacuated in a coordinated and orderly way. As a key egress method, coordinated emergency evacuation is considered here, where occupants at each floor are evacuated in a coordinated and orderly manner. Based on pre-planning, traffic is assumed balanced between elevators and stairs to minimize the overall egress time. The elevator egress time Te is defined as the time required to evacuate all the passengers assigned to elevators, i.e.,
The objective function in (21) is not additive in terms of elevators. Therefore, the decomposition and coordinate approach described previously cannot be directly applied to solve this problem. Nevertheless, let Tcj be the time required for elevator j to evacuate all the passengers assigned to it, i.e.,
With (22), the optimization-statistical method is applied. An additive Lagrangian function is obtained by relaxing the assignment constraints with nonnegative multipliers {λi}, and the egress time constraints (22) with nonnegative multipliers {μj}, i.e.,
Elevator subproblems are then constructed and solved, and a new �egress-time subproblem� for Te is introduced, as presented below.
By collecting all the terms related to elevator j from (23), the subproblem for elevator j is obtained as
The additional egress-time subproblem is obtained by collecting all the terms related to Te from (23):
In view of its quadratic form with a nonpositive linear coefficient, this subproblem can be easily solved. The component of the surrogate subgradient used to update {μi} at the nth iteration is
To achieve near-optimal passenger to car assignments and near-optimal individual car routing for the assignments based on the advance traffic information, a decomposition and coordination approach is used through the relaxation of coupling passenger-car assignment constraints. Car subproblems are independently solved. In the local search, passenger selections are first quickly evaluated and ranked by using heuristics. With this ranking information, top selections are then evaluated for exact performance by dynamic programming with a novel definition of stages, states, decisions, and costs to improve single car routing. Individual cars are then coordinated through the iterative updating of Lagrange multipliers by using surrogate optimization for near-optimal solutions.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to examples and preferred embodiments, workers skilled in the art will recognize that changes may be made in form and detail without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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