Systems and methods for autonomous operations of ground station networks

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 ac...

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Main Authors Karpenko, Mark, Minelli, Giovanni, Ross, Issac Michael
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 12.11.2019
Subjects
ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES
MEASURING
PHYSICS
RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING
RADIO NAVIGATION
TESTING
TRANSMISSION
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Summary: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 uj(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.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201715827832