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US 2010/0250319 A1Published application
Methods and apparatus for optimal resource allocation
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorsDeepak Khosla, Thomas S. Nichols
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Abstract
Method and apparatus to automatically allocate and schedule weapon systems to threats for maximizing an engagement objective. In one aspect, methods and systems maximize threat killed. In another aspect, methods and systems maximize asset survival against threats. The methods and apparatus considers temporal and resource constraints such that weapons systems are able to engage threats assigned to them.
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A method comprising:
- automatically allocating and scheduling resources to tasks for optimizing engagement objectives by:
- modeling engagement resource and temporal constraints of the resources such that the resources are allocated to tasks that the resources are able to engage.
A method, comprising:
- generating an initial population of option configurations for assignment of weapons systems to threats;
- evaluating a fitness of the option configurations;
- converting the option configurations to weapon assignment tables (WAT);
- determining the fitness of the WATs;
- and
- determining if temporal and resource constraints are satisfied for at least one of the WATs.
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A method, comprising:
- assigning resources to threats;
- determining if constraints are satisfied for the resource-threat assignments;
- and
- maximizing, for the resource-threat assignment that met the constraints, a first objective function.
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A system, comprising:
- a resource allocation and scheduling module to automatically allocate and schedule resources to tasks for optimizing engagement objectives by modeling engagement resource and temporal constraints of the resources such that the resources are allocated to tasks that the resources are able to engage.
An article, comprising:
- a storage medium having stored thereon instructions that when executed by a machine result in the following:
- automatically allocating and scheduling resources to tasks for optimizing engagement objectives by:
- modeling engagement resource and temporal constraints of the resources such that the resources are allocated to tasks that the resources are able to engage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.