Molin, Daniel; Murray, Jonathan

Developing elevator control systems using genetic algorithms

Abstract

Genetic algorithms, based on the concept of biological evolution, have historically been used to solve complex problems with huge solution spaces.

In this paper, we describe how we implement a genetic algorithm and an elevator simulation model, and examine the possibilities to use the genetic algorithm to crate a well functioning elevator control system.

Despite our failure to come up with a satisfying control system, we find a lot of potential to solve this kind of problems with genetic algorithms and describe a possible process for doing this.