Abstract: A system for detecting a presence of a person in a hoistway, having: one or more controllers configured to authenticate the person in the hoistway; the one or more controllers being operationally connected to an elevator car in the hoistway and configured to determine whether the person is within a predetermined distance of the elevator car from a signal emitter on the person; wherein when the person is within the predetermined distance of the elevator car, the one or more controllers is configured to transmit a feedback request to the person and stop the elevator car unless the one or more controllers receives feedback to the feedback request within a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: In a controlled levitation vehicle that has a levitation apparatus where multiple air pads are connected to the undersurface of a chassis that also doubles as a duct connected to a blower, and where damper valves are connected between the blower and chassis and to the chassis, it is furnished with: a controller (S1, S2) that closes the damper valve between the blower and chassis when starting and that also regulates the frequency of the inverter to the standby frequency that is below the levitation frequency; the controller (S6, S7) also closing the chassis damper valve responsive to an instruction to levitate and also increasing the frequency from a standby frequency to a levitation frequency to cause the vehicle to levitate; and the controller also lowering (S9-S12) the frequency from the levitation frequency to the standby frequency upon an instruction to land and also opening the blower and chassis damper valves to stop the vehicle rapidly.

Abstract: In a controlled levitation vehicle that has a levitation apparatus where multiple air pads are connected to the undersurface of a chassis that also doubles as a duct connected to a blower, and where damper valves are connected between the blower and chassis and to the chassis, it is furnished with: a controller (S1, S2) that closes the damper valve between the blower and chassis when starting and that also regulates the frequency of the inverter to the standby frequency that is below the levitation frequency; the controller (S6, S7) also closing the chassis damper valve responsive to an instruction to levitate and also increasing the frequency from a standby frequency to a levitation frequency to cause the vehicle to levitate; and the controller also lowering (S9-S12) the frequency from the levitation frequency to the standby frequency upon an instruction to land and also opening the blower and chassis damper valves to stop the vehicle rapidly.