Air Refueling Tanker Scheduling

Abstract

This thesis determined a way to schedule Strategic Air Command's air refueling tanker fleet to perform, if necessary, more than one refueling mission during a flight. A preemptive goal programming approach was adopted using three priority levels. The basic formulation was that of the generalized assignment problem. Three objectives had to be considered when performing the task, maximize the number tanker requests satisfied, maximize the number of category B requests satisfied, and minimize the total flight time to perform all of the missions. A preprocessor was developed to transform the inputs from the tanker and receiver scheduling units into a usable format to be executed by the mixed integer programming package. This preprocessor determined all of the possible refuelings that could take place, computed the flight times of the missions, and determined all of the variables to be used in the constraints and objective functions. Keywords: KC-135 and KC-10 aircraft.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA180229

Entities

People

  • Harry C. Hostler

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Goal Programming
  • Integer Programming
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Multiobjective Optimization
  • Operations Research
  • Refueling In Flight
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • United States

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Operations Research
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.