A market-based conflict resolution approach for satellite mission planning

Author

Hilland, Jeffrey E. ; Wessen, Randii R. ; Porter, David ; Austin, Richard S.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

48

Issue

3

fYear

2001

fDate

8/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

272

Lastpage

282

Abstract

A market-based system has been developed to assist in mission planning for an Earth orbiting synthetic aperture radar mission. This approach was chosen over more traditional systems based on a functional model used to compare the market-based system with a human-expert, thematic and geometric approaches. The market-based system enables participants to signal demands for spacecraft resources needed for data acquisitions by establishing a currency and “worth” for a particular data acquisition request. We compared a serial draft approach to two market-based approaches; a simple market and a priority market. The market systems utilized a planning period which ended when the value of the time-ordered data acquisition plan did not increase by 10% of the value of the previous round. The market-based approaches were superior to a serial draft approach and that a priority market had a 2% greater value than a simple market

Keywords

artificial satellites; data acquisition; planning; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; Earth orbiting synthetic aperture radar mission; data acquisitions; market-based approaches; market-based conflict resolution; market-based system; priority market; satellite mission planning; serial draft approach; simple market; spacecraft resources; time-ordered data acquisition plan; Data acquisition; Earth; Laboratories; Propulsion; Radar imaging; Resource management; Satellites; Space technology; Space vehicles; Spaceborne radar;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9391

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/17.946526

Filename

946526