Genetic and tabu search approaches for optimizing the hall call-car allocation problem in elevator group systems

The most common problem in vertical transportation using elevator group appears when a passenger wants to travel from a floor to other different floor in a building. The passenger makes a hall call by pressing a landing call button installed at the floor and located near the cars of the elevator gro...

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Autores: Bolat, Berna, Cortés, Pablo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/40534
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/40534
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2010.05.023
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Elevator
Lift
Tabu search
Genetic algorithm
Elevator group system
Vertical transportation
Car dispatching
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Sumario:The most common problem in vertical transportation using elevator group appears when a passenger wants to travel from a floor to other different floor in a building. The passenger makes a hall call by pressing a landing call button installed at the floor and located near the cars of the elevator group. After that, the elevator controller receives the call and identifies which one of the elevators in the group is most suitable to serve the person having issued the call. In this paper, we have developed different elevator group controllers based on genetic and tabu search algorithms. Even though genetic algorithm has been previously considered in vertical transportation problems, the use of tabu search approaches is a novelty in vertical transportation and has not been considered previously. Tests have been carried out for high-rise buildings considering diverse sizes in the group of cars. Results indicate that the waiting time and journey time of passengers were significantly improved when dealing with such soft computing approaches. Also, a quickly evaluable solution quality function in the algorithms allows suitable computational times for industry implementation.