Every spacecraft, whether in orbit around the earth or an a deep space flight, has at its disposal limited amounts of the resources for it to accomplish its mission. Activity scheduling is currently a costly, human intensive task which requires a great deal of expertise. It belongs to a class of problems whose complexity increases exponentially with the number of operations. NASA has in the past accomplished this task by using a great deal of manpower, a large number of negotiating sessions, interminable bouts of phone tag, and mountains of paperwork. Lately the situation has improved with the introduction of automated scheduling techniques, but these to date still require expert involvement and fall short in some important ways. A prototype activity scheduler, MAESTRO, is introduced which is capable of meeting the needs of many NASA missions, eventually to include the Space Station. The approach to resource constrained scheduling is first discussed, then the intended domain for MAESTRO is described along with its design and current capabilities. A description of planned enhancements and revisions to the systems is also presented.


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    Title :

    A scheduling and resource management system for space applications


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    Publication date :

    1988-08-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




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