Design and implementation of an adaptive dispatching controller for elevator systems during uppeak traffic

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 635-650

  Pepyne, David L ^b   Cassandras, Christos G ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Bulk service queueing networks; Concurrent estimation; Discrete event dynamic systems; Optimization problems; Perturbation analysis; Queueing theory; Thresholds; Transportation systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELEVATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUEUEING THEORY;

CONCURRENT ESTIMATION DISPATCHING ALGORITHM (CEDA); DISPATCHING CONTROLLERS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032166161     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/87.709499     Document Type: Article

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