Scheduling Tool for the Nevada Test and Training Range
Abstract
Presently, the 57th Wing Scheduler at Nellis AFB schedules daily mission requests to the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) airspace manually. The process is time consuming and may lead to suboptimal range resource allocations. The goal of this study is to provide the scheduler with an automated scheduling approach that will improve range scheduling effixE;ciency. The tool developed uses range request data from units at Nellis AFB to produce daily mission schedules for a month long scheduling horizon with Microsoft VBA code and a commercial Integer Program (IP) solver. Under our current understanding of scheduler priorities, we formulate the problem with three dixB;erent sets of objective function coeffxE;cients to maximize the utility of the schedules. We then analyze the differences in the schedules produced from a test data set comprised of requests from May 2017. Based on our analysis and results from testing, we recommend that the 57th Wing Scheduler employ one of our priority-based formulations to xC;nd fast and good feasible starting solutions to their monthly schedule build.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 22, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1056371
Entities
People
- Miguel J. Macias
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology