Generating High Quality Schedules for a Spacecraft Memory Downlink Problem

This work introduces a combinatorial optimization problem called Mars Express Memory Dumping Problem (Mex-Mdp), which arises in the European Space Agency program Mars Express. It concerns the generation of high quality schedules for the spacecraft memory downlink problem. Mex-Mdp is an NP-hard combinatorial problem characterized by several kinds of constraints, such as on-board memory capacity, limited communication windows over the downlink channel, deadlines and ready times on the observation activities. The contribution of this paper is twofold: on one hand it provides a CSP model of a real problem, and on the other it presents a set of metaheuristic strategies based on local and randomized search which are built around the constraint-based model of the problem. The algorithms are evaluated on a benchmark set distilled from ESA documentation and the results are compared against a lower bound of the objective function.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
Oddi A.
Policella N.
Cesta A.
Cortellessa G.
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin , Germania
Source: 
Lecture notes in computer science 2833 (2003): 570–584.
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Date: 
2003
Resource Identifier: 
http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/46659
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Angelo Oddi
Real name: 
Ritratto di Amedeo Cesta
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