APPENDIX G: Data Dictionary

 

 

arrival indication = values: 1-40

NOTES: indication of floor at which elevator has arrived

 

at floor

NOTES: signal that elevator reached a floor

 

current floor = values: 1-40

NOTES: floor number where an elevator is currently located

 

current-floor = values: 1-40

NOTES: floor number where an elevator floor is currently located

 

desired floor reached

NOTES: signal

 

destination direction = [destination-up|destination-down]

 

destination-down =

NOTES: signal that required direction is down

 

destination-floor = values: 1-40

NOTES: floor numbers where an elevator is scheduled to stop

 

destination-indication = values: 1-40

NOTES: indication of floor numbers where an elevator is scheduled to stop

 

destination-pending= values: [on | off]

NOTES: indication that elevator has destinations subsequent to current floor

 

destination-request= @elevator-number+{floor-number}

 

destination-request-entered

NOTES: signal that passenger has entered request

 

destination-request-received

NOTES: signal that request is ready for scheduling

 

destination-requests = {destination-request}

 

destination-schedule = @elevator-number+{destination-floor}+request -source+destination-pending

 

destination-schedules= {destination-schedule}

 

destinations-pending = [summons-pending | destination-pending | summons-pending + destination-pending]

NOTES: signal that a destination schedule exists

 

destination-up

NOTES: signal that required direction is up

 

down-direction

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

elevator-control-signal = elevator-up-control+elevator-down-control+elevator-stop-control

 

elevator-down-control

NOTES: signal to hardware

 

elevator-floor = values: 1-40

 

elevator-not-available

NOTES: signal that an elevator is not available to honor a summons request

 

elevator-number = values: 1-4

 

elevator-selected

NOTES: signal that an elevator has been scheduled for a summons request

 

elevator-status = @elevator-number+elevator-state+current-floor

 

elevator-state = [parked|moving-up|moving-down|stopped|out-of-service]

 

elevator-statuses = {elevator-status}

 

elevator-stop-control

NOTES: signal to hardware

 

elevator-up-control

NOTES: signal to hardware

 

floor-number = values: 1-40

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

moving-down

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

moving-up

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

off

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

on

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

out-of-service

NOTES: signal that elevator has failed to respond to movement command

 

overload

NOTES: signal from hardware

 

parked

NOTES: signal

 

request-received = summons-request-received + destination-request-received

 

request-source = [summons | destination-floor | summons + destination-floor]

 

requests = summons-requests + destination-requests

 

reschedule-elevator

NOTES: signal to initiate rescheduling summons assigned to failed elevator

 

summons-pending = values: [on | off]

 

summons-request = @elevator-floor + [up-direction | down-direction | up-direction + down-direction] + elevator-number

 

stopped

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

summons

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

summons-indication = values: 1-40

NOTES: indication of floor numbers where an elevator is scheduled to stop

 

summons-request = @elevator-floor + [up-direction | down-direction | up-direction + down-direction] + elevator-number

 

summons-request-issued

NOTES: signal

 

summons-request-received

NOTES: signal

 

summons-requests = {summons-request}

 

up-direction

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

values

NOTES: *** Generated Entry ***

 

Process Specifications

 

1.1.2     STORE SUMMONS REQUEST

Precondition

input-summons-request occurs

Postcondition

input-summons-request is stored

summons-request-entered is produced

 

1.1.3     CLEAR COMPLETED SUMMONS

Precondition

There is an elevator-number in elevator-statuses that matches elevator-number-assigned in summons-request

and

There is a corresponding current-floor in elevator-statuses that matches floor-number in summons-requests

Postcondition

Corresponding entry in summons-request is null

 

1.1.4     DISPLAY SUMMONS REQUEST

Precondition

None

Postcondition

summons-requests are displayed

 

1.2.3     CLEAR COMPLETED DESTINATIONS

Preconditon

There is an elevator-number in elevator-statuses that matches elevator-number in destination-requests

and

There is a corresponding current-floor in elevator-statuses that matches floor-number in destination-requests

Postcondition

Corresponding entry in destination-requests is null

 

1.2.4     DISPLAY DESTINATION REQUEST

Precondition

None

Postcondition

destination-requests are displayed

 

2.1.2     DETERMINE FINAL DESTINATION

Precondition

There is an elevator-number in elevator-statuses that matches elevator-number in destination-schedules

and

There is a corresponding current-floor in elevator-statuses that matches destination-floor in destination-schedules

and

corresponding destination-pending = off in destination-schedules

Postcondition

final-destination-reached is produced

 

2.1.3     DETERMINE DIRECTION REQUIRED

Local term match is a matching elevator-number in destination-schedules and elevator-number in elevator-status

Precondition 1

match exists

and

There exists in destination-schedules a destination-floor >  current-floor in elevator-status

Postcondition 1

destination-up is produced

Precondition 2

match exists

and

There exists in destination-schedules a destination-floor <  current-floor in elevator-status

Postcondition 2

destination-down is produced

 

2.2.2     MONITOR FLOOR ARRIVAL

Precondition 1

floor occurs

Postcondition 1

arrival-indication is cleared for previous floor

and

arrival-indication is produced for corresponding floor

and

at-floor is produced

and

current-floor is updated in elevator-statuses

 

2.2.3     MONITOR ELEVATOR MOVEMENT

current-floor is read from elevator-statuses

Precondition

10 seconds elapse and current-floor is unchanged

Postcondition

move-timeout occurs

 

2.2.4     STORE ELEVATOR STATUS

Precondition

input signal is received

Postcondition

elevator-state is updated in elevator-status

 

2.2.5     DETERMINE DESIRED FLOOR

Precondition

There is an elevator-number in elevator-statuses that matches elevator-number in destination-statuses

and

There is a corresponding current-floor in elevator-statuses that matches destination-floor in destination-schedules

Postcondition

desired-floor-reached is produced

 

3.1.1     SCHEDULE SUMMONS

BEGIN

with summons-request, elevator-status, and overload

DO WHILE elevator-selected has not been signaled

Find closest elevator

IF elevator is moving in correction direction

or elevator is parked

                                    IF elevator is not overloaded

enter summons-request by elevator-number in destination-schedule

set request-source to summons or summons +  destination

ENDIF

IF destination-pending = off

                                                set destination-pending = on

ENDIF

signal elevator-selected

ELSE

Find next closest elevator

END DO

IF no elevator found

                        Signal elevator  not available

ENDIF

END

 

3.1.3     CLEAR SUMMONED DESTINATIONS

Precondition

There is an elevator-number in elevator-statuses that matches elevator-number in destination-schedules

and

corresponding elevator-state = out-of-service in

elevator-statuses

and

corresponding request-source = summons

in destination-schedules

Postcondition

Corresponding entries of destination-floor are null

 

3.2.2     SCHEDULE-DESTINATION-REQUEST

Precondition

None

Postcondition

destination-schedules is updated by destination-requests matching elevator-number

Set request-source =  destination or summons +  destination

IF destination-pending = off

                        Set destination-pending = off

ENDIF

 

3.2.3     UPDATE DESTINATION SCHEDULE

Precondition 1

There is an elevator-number in elevator-statuses that matches elevator-number in destination-schedules

and

There is a corresponding current-floor in elevator-statuses that matches destination-floor in destination-schedule

Postcondition 1

Corresponding destination-floor entry is null

Precondition 2

same condition as Precondition 1

and

no other corresponding destination-floor entries are present

Postcondition 2

corresponding destination-floor entry is null

and

corresponding destination-pending is set to off