Math 4/5779: Mathematics Clinic (Spring 2006)

Satellite Mission Scheduling with Dynamic Tasking

sponsored by: Raytheon


Instructor: Stephen Billups
Stephen.Billups@cudenver.edu
(303) 556-4814
 Time: TR 7:00-8:15 p.m.  (Section 002)
Room: CU-Denver Bldg, Rm 656
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor
Call Numbers:  MA4779 : #11340
MA5779 : #12268
 
The Mathematics Clinic is a 3-credit course intended to give students practical experience applying mathematics to solve real-world problems. The clinic is conducted as a research team, with the students and faculty working together to solve a problem of interest to a sponsoring corporation or government agency.   Students should have a strong mathematical or technical background, but need not be mathematics majors.

Brief Problem Description:  The Satellite Mission Scheduling problem with Dynamic Tasking (SMS-DT) involves scheduling tasks for a satellite, where new task requests can arrive at any time, non-deterministically, and must be scheduled in near real-time. Scheduling goals are i) no scheduled tasks will miss their due dates; ii) scheduling of low priority tasks does not interfere with the scheduling of higher priority tasks; and iii) tasking, geometric, resource, and environmental constraints are all satisfied.   (More details...)


Last updated: January 24, 2006