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Scheduling of a Constellation of Satellites: Improving a Simulated Annealing Model by Creating a Mixed-Integer Linear Model

The purpose of this thesis is to provide a new scheduling model of a large constellation of imaging satellites that does not use a heuristic solving method. The objective is to create a mixed-integer linear model that would be competitive in speed and in its closeness to reality against a current model using simulated annealing, while trying to improve both models. Each satellite has the choice between a number of possible events, each event having a utility and a cost, and the chosen schedule must take into account numerous time-related constraints. The main difficulties appeared in modeling realistically a battery level and in handling infeasible configurations due to inaccurate parameters. The obtained linear model has enabled a better understanding of the performance of the simulated annealing solver, and could also be adapted to different real-world scheduling problems.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kth-179300
Date January 2015
CreatorsMonmousseau, Philippe
PublisherKTH, Optimeringslära och systemteori
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationTRITA-MAT-E ; 2015:87

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