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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2017
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US);
Giovanni Minelli, Monterey, CA (US);
Mark Karpenko, Salinas, CA (US);
Issac Michael Ross, Monterey, CA (US);
Abstract
A mission planning system for scheduling the operations of one or more ground stations in order to optimize overall system communications with a plurality of satellites. The mission planning system comprises a digital processor in communication with each ground station, with the digital processor acting to assess the benefits and penalties acting in the system as a whole over a given time horizon. A system-wide cost function evaluated by the processor generally compares resultant SNR and slewing penalties for achievable communications, and provides a control vector u(t) for each ground station determined through an optimization process, in order that various physical constraints and weighting factors pertinent to an individual ground station may be incorporated and accommodated as the digital processor optimizes overall system communications.