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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (15): 333077.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2025.33077

• Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Control • Previous Articles    

Multi-stage collaborative decision-making approach for dynamic scheduling of carrier-based aircraft support operations

Shuo HE1,2,3, Jialin LIU1, Ao SHEN1, Saisai ZHU1, Yuanyuan JIN1,2,3, Lulu LI1,2,3, Yafei LI1,2,3, Mingliang XU1,2,3()   

  1. 1.School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence,Zhengzhou University,Zhengzhou 450001,China
    2.Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Swarm Systems,Ministry of Education,Zhengzhou 450001,China
    3.National Supercomputing Center in Zhengzhou,Zhengzhou 450001,China
  • Received:2025-11-11 Revised:2025-11-26 Accepted:2025-12-09 Online:2025-12-17 Published:2025-12-15
  • Contact: Mingliang XU E-mail:iexumingliang@zzu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(62402453);Natural Science Foundation of Henan(242300421215);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022TQ0297)

Abstract:

To address the insufficient exploration of subtask coupling relationships and limited dynamic adaptability in existing carrier-based aircraft support operation scheduling research, this study investigates a multi-stage scheduling problem for carrier-based aircraft support operations. Firstly, by modeling both support station allocation and aircraft servicing sequence determination as a multi-agent Markov decision process, this paper establishes a mathematical characterization of the sequential coupling relationships between subtasks in support operation scheduling. Subsequently, an independent Deep Q-Network(DQN)based multi-agent collaborative decision-making framework is proposed, incorporating a distributed training-execution mechanism that specially includes a support station allocation module, an aircraft servicing sequence decision module, and a multi-agent collaborative scheduling module. Furthermore, a collaborative scheduling algorithm based on the multi-stage sequential decision-making mechanism is developed to solve the proposed model. Finally, simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves a 27.08% and 14.19% improvement in average reward, and a 56.44% and 45.43% improvement in reward standard deviation, over the Dueling DQN and N-step DQN methods, respectively, verifying the effectiveness of the multi-stage collaborative decision-making mechanism in addressing complex scheduling problems.

Key words: carrier-based aircraft, deep reinforcement learning, multi-stage, scheduling optimization, resource allocation

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