An Automatic Planning and Scheduling System for the Mars Express Uplink Scheduling Problem

Donati, Alessandro; Policella, Nicola; Rabenau, Erhard; Righini, Giovanni; Tresoldi, Emanuele

doi:10.1109/tsmcc.2011.2114880

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“…Karapetyan et al have dealt with the downlink scheduling portion of the mission planning operations of Canada's Earth-observing SAR satellite [12]. Donati et al introduced the autonomous data transmission and scheduling algorithm proposed by the European Space Agency for the Mars Express Mission [13]. Xhafa et al summarized a family of problems after combing the problems of satellite mission scheduling.…”

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A Heuristic Genetic Algorithm for Regional Targets’ Small Satellite Image Downlink Scheduling Problem

Song

Zhang

Sun

et al. 2019

International Journal of Aerospace Engineering

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Small satellite image downlink scheduling problem (SSIDSP) is an important part of satellite mission planning. SSIDSP mainly needs to balance how to better match the limited receiving capacity of the ground station with the limited satellite resources. In this paper, regional targets are considered with SSIDSP. We propose a mathematical model that maximizes profit by considering time value and regional targets. A downlink schedule algorithm (DSA) is proposed to complete the task sequence arrangement and generate scheduling results. A heuristic genetic algorithm (HGA) is used to optimize the generated task sequence to achieve higher profit. Three scale test instances are used to test the effectiveness of HGA and DSA. We compare the effect of HGA, basic genetic algorithm (GA), and construction heuristic algorithm. The experimental results proved that the proposed approach ensures the successful completion of observation tasks and is effective for SSIDSP.

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A Heuristic Genetic Algorithm for Regional Targets’ Small Satellite Image Downlink Scheduling Problem

Song

Zhang

Sun

et al. 2019

International Journal of Aerospace Engineering

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“…The satellite image downlink scheduling problem and its variations have been studied by many authors. Some of these works were focused on case studies for specific satellites or space missions [11,14,20] whereas others are more general purpose in nature [9,10,12,15,16,29,31,32,33]. Literature from machine scheduling [7,25,28,27] and resource-constrained project scheduling [19,26] are also relevant in solving the satellite image downlink scheduling problem (SIDSP).…”

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Satellite downlink scheduling problem: A case study

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Minic²,

Malladi³

et al. 2015

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The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology enables satellites to efficiently acquire high quality images of the Earth surface. This generates significant communication traffic from the satellite to the ground stations, and, thus, image downlinking often becomes the bottleneck in the efficiency of the whole system. In this paper we address the downlink scheduling problem for Canada's Earth observing SAR satellite, RADARSAT-2. Being an applied problem, downlink scheduling is characterised with a number of constraints that make it difficult not only to optimise the schedule but even to produce a feasible solution. We propose a fast schedule generation procedure that abstracts the problem specific constraints and provides a simple interface to optimisation algorithms. By comparing empirically several standard meta-heuristics applied to the problem, we select the most suitable one and show that it is clearly superior to the approach currently in use.

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Optimal control applications and methods literature survey (No. 27)

2011

Optim Control Appl Methods

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An Automatic Planning and Scheduling System for the Mars Express Uplink Scheduling Problem

Cited by 7 publications

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A Heuristic Genetic Algorithm for Regional Targets’ Small Satellite Image Downlink Scheduling Problem

A Heuristic Genetic Algorithm for Regional Targets’ Small Satellite Image Downlink Scheduling Problem

Satellite downlink scheduling problem: A case study

Optimal control applications and methods literature survey (No. 27)

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