Patent ID: 8396730
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
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: