Counterintuitive Fall 2024

1.each floor is equipped with both an Up Button and a Down Button, both of which serve as Call Buttons. These buttons are used to request your presence, so when someone presses either of these buttons, you are prompted to travel to the corresponding floor.

2.While on route to the floor that made the call, you are designed to stop along the way to respond to any priority calls in the same direction. These priority calls must be completed before any change in direction is considered. This means that if a priority call instructs the elevator to switch directions, it will only do so after fulfilling the existing priority call.

3.Upon arriving at the floor that initially made the call, your doors have to automatically open, and it patiently waits for a brief period before closing them. During this time, the door has a sensor that can detect any obstructions in the doorway. If the sensor detects an obstruction while the door is closing, you immediately stop and reopens the door to ensure safety.

4.After successfully reaching the requested destination floor, you proceed to the next priority response. However, if no further calls are made, it remains stationary at that floor, ready to serve when called upon. This sequence of actions ensures efficient and safe elevator operation in a multi-floor building.

Scenario: Brand new elevator in 7 story building.

1. Standby on first floor until summoned to a floor above
2. Summoned only when “UP” or “DOWN” button is pressed at any of the floors 1 through 7
3. When the “UP” button is pressed at the floor you are stationary at open doors and take them to desired floor indicated by buttons inside elevator ( For Example: Floor 7 )
4. You will only stop at another floor before reaching desired destination (in this case 7) if they are going the same direction and they have pushed the button before you’ve passed their floor
5. For example, if on your way to floor 7 from floor 1 and the “DOWN” button gets pressed at floor 4 & the “UP” button gets pressed at floor 5 you will only go to 5 if you haven’t already passed it
6. If that’s the case you will go to 5 then continue to 7 / If not you will go to floor 7 then floor 5 after
7. Once you’ve dropped everybody off based off the timing between button presses and your location between floors (Both scenarios above) you will go to floor 4
8. take them to desired floor (in example floor 2)
9. Standby at most recent destination (in this case floor 2) waiting for new “UP” or “Down” request

Await instructions on the first floor to be SUMMONED by the corresponding floors of the buttons that are pressed.

When SUMMONED to go up by the Up Button being pressed, please PROCEED to go up to the corresponding floor.

STOP and OPEN the door when reaching the Destination of the button that was pressed.

After 20 seconds of inactivity, CLOSE the door.

Close the Door after the Destination Button is pressed, then Close the Door before proceeding to

(This is the only elevator in a 5-floor building)

After arriving at a floor on your path, open the door for 20 seconds and then close the door.

If you are in the process of closing the door and the circuit is interrupted, open the door for 20 seconds, and then close the door.

Each floor has an operating panel that has ascend and descend buttons. When the ascend button lights up, respond to the summon by going to the corresponding floor and going up. If a descend button lights up, respond to the summon by going to the corresponding floor and going down.

Default settings:

Travel to all the floors that correspond with the buttons that were signaled on the operating panel.

Button number 1 corresponds to floor 1

Button number 2 corresponds to floor 2

Button number 3 corresponds to floor 3

Button number 4 corresponds to floor 4

Button number 5 corresponds to floor 5

 Never turn around when you are on a path to go somewhere. If you are going UP to a floor, continue moving to the floor you were summoned to, even if a button to go down summons you to another floor. If an up button on another floor is clicked while going up, stop at the floor you were signaled to and open the door, but only if you have not passed that floor yet.

Never turn around if you are on the path to go DOWN as well. If you are going down and are summoned to another floor with the up button lit up, continue on your way, and skip that location until after you stop at your initial location first. If the down button is clicked on another floor, stop at that corresponding floor only if it is on the way.

If you are summoned to a floor that an up button has been pressed when you are going down or a down button has summoned you when you are going up, skip that floor until you stopped at the floor you were going to first, and return back to that floor after.

1. When the DOWN Button is pressed on the 59th floor of a 60 floor building but the UP button is pressed on the first floor, pick up the person on the 59th floor first and take them down to their desired floor of 5, then continue down pick up the person pressing the UP button who wants to go to floor 8.
2. Once the person on the first floor is taken to their desired floor, the lights of UP appear on the 48th floor and the 34th floor. Pick up the person who is pressing UP on the 34th floor and take them to the requested destination of floor 50, but on the way pick up the person on floor 48 and take them to their desired floor of floor 60.
3. After dropping off the person at floor 60, the light comes on and there is a request on floor 9 to go DOWN to floor 1. Go down to floor 9, then drop the person off on floor 1.
4. While dropping the person off on floor 1, you got a request on floor 8 to go UP to floor 55. Take the person UP to go to floor 55, then STOP and WAIT on floor 55 for the next request to come on either the UP or DOWN button.

1. The Elevator maximizes potential passengers through trips and momentum
2. The DOWN button causes the box to go down the UP button causes the box to go up and the NUMBER buttons for each floor
3. The elevator will normally follow the first button press then the other button presses in succession
4. The Elevator will go to the floor in which the first UP or DOWN button is pressed
5. The first buttton pressed as PRIORITY over other button presses unless a button is going the same way on the way of the PRIORTY button press
6. When the elevator arrives at its destination the door opens for 5 seconds then closed ready to go after its next destination
7. If the elevator isnt activated via UP or DOWN for an hour the elevator will go to the first floor

There are 5 floors in an elevator system. On the outside of the elevator there are two buttons for floors 2-4, and one for floors 1 and 5. These buttons are labeled either up and down, and call the elevator to queue your floor for transportation whether you want to go up or down. The inside of the elevator has a control panel that has a button for every floor in the system. Pressing one queues up the request to go to the designated floor. Pressing all of the buttons will go in chronological order based on the direction the elevator is headed.

Suppose someone is standing on floor 1 and anticipates going to floor 5. They would press the button on the outside of the elevator. If the elevator is empty and there are no queued stops, the elevator would make its way to floor 1. The person would get into the elevator cabin and press their designated floor, in this case floor 5.

Concurrent to the first person pressing the button to go to floor 5, a second person on floor 3 presses the button to go up, with intent to go to floor 4. The elevator stops at floor 3, brings the second person to floor 4, and then brings the first person up to floor 5.

However, if the second person pressed the down button rather than the up button, the system would bring the first person to floor 5, and then head to floor 3 to bring the second person to their intended floor, in this case either 1 or 2.

The queue system is set up efficiently, so that if the direction of the elevator is down, it will queue requested stops and drop offs in chronological order. For example if two people are in the elevator on floor 5 (one with the intent to go to floor 4 and one with the intent to go to floor 2), and someone on floor 4 requests to go down to floor 3, it will drop them off in order of requested stop: Floor 4 then floor 3 then floor 2.

The elevator must listen and respond to the buttons on the outside and inside of the elevator

The inside buttons consist of a list of floors, and the outside has an up and down button. (Except the top floor and bottom floor, where there’s only one button to summon the elevator.)

The elevator is to arrive at the destination of the button being pushed from outside it, and may only pick up additional passengers on the way only if they are traveling the same direction (up or down). 

If going up, Ignore all down summons

If the elevator is going down, Ignore all up summons. 

The elevator will respond to passengers in the order they click buttons. 

After the passenger is inside, they will be taken to the floor they press on the inside buttons of the elevator.

The elevator will never stop at a floor it is not called to.

The elevator will rest at its last stop until it is summoned.

The elevator will open the door 1 second after it reaches its floor.

The elevator will wait 8 seconds before closing the door.