Logistics Working Group CAMERA - MICANT Coordination

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Logistics Working GroupCAMERA - MICANT
Coordination

Gabor Karsai, Benoit Dawant Vanderbilt University
Russ Currer Idea Services

• Robert Neches, Pedro Szekely
• University of Southern California
• Information Sciences Institute
• Marina del Rey, California

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What Makes True Logistics a Good Negotiation
Testbed?

• Dynamic, continuous processSimultaneous
  long-range, short range and execution concerns
• Six-month to year goals for Marine Expeditionary
  Units (MEUs) you, your aircraft, data, systems
  and 2k friends
• Build/maintain weekly and daily schedules
• Repair schedules on five minutes notice
• Strong good-enough / soon-enough pressures (same
  reasons)
• Contrast to traditional optimization
• Cannot elicit full evaluation function in advance
• Frequent need to change constraints to handle
  problem
• VERY high military payoffs Money, Lives

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Key Ideas of a Joint Demonstration

• First demonstration of feedback loops in a
  large-scale negotiation process

CommandersIntent
Mission-SensitivePlanning
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CAMERA / MICANTS Integration Plan
1. Scheduling/planning of short-term, tactical, corrective maintenance actions in light of the flight schedule SNAP supplies daily flight schedule to MAPLANT which in turn generates a daily maintenance plan
2. Scheduling/planning of long-term, strategic, scheduled maintenance actions w.r.t. long-term flight schedule SNAP supplies n-week flight schedule to MAPLANT which uses that to generate a long term maintenance plan
3. Scheduling flight operations based on plane availability MAPLANT provides a "best effort" estimates for the number of available aircrafts over time. SNAP creates a schedule based on these estimated generation rates.
4. Scheduling flight operations based on plane availability and capabilities MAPLANT provides a "best effort estimates for the number aircrafts, their capabilities, other attributes, and negotiable and non-negotiable constraints associated with them. SNAP creates a schedule based on this.
5. Negotiation between MAPLANT and SNAP The two systems interact using a well-defined messaging protocol to facilitate negotiation between the flight schedule and maintenance schedule. The objective is to explore trade-offs between the two aspects to achieve global optimization w.r.t. some metric (e.g., generation rate, CRP, etc.)
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Insights and New Directions

• Services rendered by negotiation
• Control systems
• Decision support
• Dimensions of scaling to explore
• Speed tie to replanning during missions
• Size coordinating much larger organizations
• Planning horizon very long-range planning

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Rough Demo Scenario
OPS
Maintenance
Guidance
MAPLANT
SNAP
First Cut Plan
Approx. Maintenance Plan (A/C status)
Refined Ops Plan
Refined Maintenance Plan
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Tasks and Timeline

• CAMERA implement SNAP initial assessment
  milestones (esp. flight hour guidance)
• MICANT scope initial MAPLANT coverage of
  maintenance issues(portions of TR manual,
  Mission Essential Systems List) in order to
  determine scenario specifics
• Week of Dec 18 VTC to define interfaces
  (probably XML DTDs), flesh out schedule based on
  scenario specifics
• Jan coordination meeting
• Feb Status review GO vs. DEFER decision on
  scheduling
• If decision is GO, then
• Issue invitations to major constituents for
  high-profile demo in April
• Schedule March integration and first rehearsal
  meeting
• April provide major demonstration at MCAS Yuma
  and/or other venues