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System and method for resource allocation and management

  • US 8,396,730 B2
  • Filed: 03/23/2011
  • Issued: 03/12/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of planning resource tasking and movement where there are plural resources and plural targets and each resource has plural operational modes, comprising:

  • dividing an area of interest into a grid of grid cells, each grid cell having a probability that a target is present in the grid cell and each resource having a starting point corresponding to one of the grid cells;

    determining, via a computer system, an upper bound for a branch and bound objective function for each of the plural operational modes of the resources;

    combining, via the computer system, the upper bounds for each operational mode into a single upper bound and determining whether to change operational modes of one or more of the resources;

    pruning, via the computer system, possible resource movements by carrying out a branch and bound process with the single upper bound; and

    tasking each resource in accordance with the pruned possible resource movements,wherein the operational modes for at least one resource includes a target interaction operation and wherein determining, via the computer system, the upper bound for the target interaction operation comprises;

    selecting, via the computer system, a minimum of a first potential upper bound and a second potential upper bound; and

    determining, via the computer system, the first potential upper bound by summing probabilities of each target being interacted with by a resource, ignoring feasibility of each resource being able to interact with more than one target.

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