Elevator – industrial lift truck – or stationary lift for vehicle – With call registration means
Patent
1997-12-30
1999-05-18
Nappi, Robert E.
Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle
With call registration means
187390, 395910, B66B1/16
Patent
active
059042273
ABSTRACT:
A method for adapting to observed special use patterns a neural network used to estimate quantities needed by an elevator dispatching system responsible for assigning the elevator or another elevator to a hall call. Rather than simply refining values of existing connection weights to train the neural network to provide acceptable outputs for predetermined inputs, the method analyzes use information to determine whether additional inputs to the neural network might be advantageous and what those inputs might be. If so, the method alters the neural network architecture by providing new input nodes and corresponding connection weights, the connection weights having initially relatively small values. All connection weights can then be adjusted during actual operation of the elevator to accommodate the new input nodes.
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Christy Theresa M.
Whitehall Bradley L.
Nappi Robert E.
Otis Elevator Company
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