Elevator Group Supervisory Control System Using Genetic Network Programming with Functional Localization

Genetic network programming (GNP) whose gene consists of directed graphs has been proposed as a new method of evolutionary computations, and it is recently applied to the elevator group supervisory control system (EGSCS), a real world problem, to confirm its effectiveness. In the previous study, although the flow of traffic in the elevator system is known and fixed, it is changed dynamically with time in real elevator systems. Therefore, the EGSCS with an adaptive control should be studied considering such changes for practical applications. In this paper, the GNP with functional localization is applied to the EGSCS to construct such an adaptive system. In the proposed method, the switching GNP can switch the functionally localized GNPs (assigning GNPs) fitted to several kinds of traffic by detecting the change of the flow of traffic. From the simulations, the adaptability and effectiveness of the proposed method are clarified using the traffic data of a day in an office building