Designing And Realizing An Auxiliary Planning System For Aircraft Scheduling On Deck

The aircraft carrier combat capacity is affected by the sortie and recovery ability of carrier-based aircraft on deck.The aircraft sortie and recovery capacity is closely related to the comprehensive task scheduling strategy of aircraft carrier deck operations,including the path choice of multiple aircrafts,the resource distribution,the mission order management etc.Therefore,the aircraft carrier deck scheduling process is a synthetically complicated planning problem about multi-object and multi-task.On the basis of human-computer cooperation thought,an Aircraft Carrier Deck Operations Planner(ACDOP)system which highlights the judgment of a human decision maker is created.By allowing high-level interaction between human operators and automated planners,the mission order,timing and the resource distribution can be managed,besides the reference path of the objects designated.Various kinds of resources and equipments,such as carrier-based aircraft,ground vehicles,lifter,security zone,crew,are integrated in the scheduling process.Aiming at the path planning of moving objects,the autonomous and human-computer cooperation collision avoidance path planning is achieved with the objects' complex 2D shape and kinematics constraints considered.To the deck scheduling process planning of each object,the specific implementing process of all kinds of scheduling tasks are designed and achieved,the course timing deduction is based on the discrete and continuous simulation system theory besides the layered planning approach.It is realized by coupling the mission commands assigned for each object with the computer analytical functions specific to the concrete mission.Moreover,this system is programmed as a universal piece of software that can be applied to any deck shape and aircraft arrangement.Any anticipated deck shape,resource distribution and arrangement scheme of carrier-based aircraft can be settled through configuring typical interface and modifying relevant parameter in the software,so that the course of deck operations on any available or virtual aircraft carrier can be deduced and analyzed.Finally,take any anticipated deck shape and arrangement scheme as an example in this paper,and the deck scheduling processes and sequences of the relevant aircraft carrier are regarded as the background,the schemes to sortie and warehouse-out of muti-aircraft are designed and simulated in the system.Results show that,the any deck scheduling scheme can be completed and optimized by the relevant algorithms and the scheduling system proposed in this paper.