Telescope Network Scheduling - Rationale and Formalisms

Sotiria Lampoudi, Eric Saunders

2013

Abstract

Scheduling of university and institutional telescopes is typically performed manually, and astronomers are used to interacting with a human to explain their requirements for resources and time. Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) is deploying a worldwide network of robotic telescopes. At LCOGT manual scheduling is infeasible due to: 1) the number of resources and observations that must be scheduled, 2) the scheduling-time dependencies that arise when concurrent or consecutive access to telescopes is required, and 3) the need to rapidly re-calculate the schedule to accommodate near-real-time requests from high priority observing programmes (e.g. transient followup programmes), and changing resource availability due to weather and other reasons. In this paper we develop a formalism capable of expressing the complex requirements and preferences of astronomers concerning resource and time allocation on a telescope network, and formulate the offline telescope network scheduling problem as the problem of choosing and scheduling (i.e. assigning concrete start and end times to) a maximum priority, non-overlapping subset of an input list of requests.

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Lampoudi S. and Saunders E. (2013). Telescope Network Scheduling - Rationale and Formalisms . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-8565-40-2, pages 313-317. DOI: 10.5220/0004274203130317


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@conference{icores13,
author={Sotiria Lampoudi and Eric Saunders},
title={Telescope Network Scheduling - Rationale and Formalisms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2013},
pages={313-317},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004274203130317},
isbn={978-989-8565-40-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Telescope Network Scheduling - Rationale and Formalisms
SN - 978-989-8565-40-2
AU - Lampoudi S.
AU - Saunders E.
PY - 2013
SP - 313
EP - 317
DO - 10.5220/0004274203130317