Personal Protective Equipment Optimization Validation

Abstract

The Research Facilitation Laboratory (RFL) Investigated the logistical benefit to the COVID-19 pandemic using a specialized optimization HW platform known as a Digital Annealer manufactured by the Fujitsu Corporation. The goal of using the DA is to show that highly computationally and combinatorically complex problems are solvable in a fraction of the time on standard CPUs and also capable of generating near-theoretically optimal solutions. This particular problem involved the logistics of transferring PPE supply to PPE demand areas that minimized the mileage traveled while also meeting the demand need as close to full as possible given supplies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 24, 2020
Accession Number
AD1117682

Entities

People

  • Clay Stanek
  • Thomas Werner

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computational Science
  • Covid-19
  • Data Science
  • Demography
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Logistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Mathematical Models
  • Optimization
  • Personal Protective Equipment
  • Protective Equipment
  • Standards
  • Supply Chain
  • Validation

Readers

  • Environmental Engineering.
  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Operations Research