2019年美赛Problem B: Send in the Drones: Developing an Aerial Disaster Relief Response System

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背景:2017年,遭受美国波多黎各领土袭击的最严重飓风(见附件1)使该岛遭受严重破坏,造成2900多人死亡。该飓风风暴潮和波浪作用的综合破坏力对建筑物,房屋和道路产生了广泛的影响,特别是在波多黎各东部和东南沿海地区
波多黎各。风暴和暴雨引发的风暴击倒了波多黎各80%的电力杆和所有输电线路,导致该岛上340万居民基本丧失了电力。此外,风暴还破坏或摧毁了岛上大部分的蜂窝通信网络。电力和电池服务中断持续了岛上大部分时间都是几个月,而在某些地方则更长。广泛的洪水阻塞并破坏了岛上的许多高速公路和道路,使得紧急服务地面车辆几乎不可能规划和导航他们的路线。波多黎各的全面破坏程度在一段时间内仍不明朗;数十个地区被孤立,没有沟通。对医疗用品,救生设备和治疗紧张的保健诊所,医院急诊室和非政府组织(NG)救济行动的需求。由于长期病患转向医院和临时住所接受护理,医疗保健需求持续激增一段时间。

问题:非政府组织(NGO)经常面临在自然灾害期间或之后提供充分和及时响应的挑战,例如2017年袭击美国波多黎各领土的飓风。特别是一个非政府组织 – HELP,Inc。 – 该公司正试图通过设计一种名为“DroneGo”的可移动灾难响应系统来提高其响应能力.Dronone将使用旋翼无人机提供预先封装的医疗用品并提供高分辨率航拍视频侦察。选定的无人机应该能够同时或单独执行这两项任务 – 医疗供应和视频侦察 – 取决于救援条件和时间安排。 HELP,Inc。已经确定了各种候选转子翼无人机,希望您的团队考虑将其用于设计其DroneGo车队(见附件2,3)。
DroneGo的预包装医疗用品,称为医疗包,旨在增加而不是取代受灾害影响的国家内现场医疗援助组织提供的用品。 HELP,Inc。计划推出三种不同的医疗包,称为MED1,MED2和MED3。无人机将在无人机货舱内携带这些医疗包裹,以便运送到选定的地点(见附件4,5)。根据用于运输医疗用品的特定无人机,可能可以在单个无人机货舱中运输多个医疗包。请注意,无人机必须降落在地面上以从无人机货舱卸载医疗用品。无人机的视频功能将为HELP,Inc。的地面路线规划指挥和控制中心提供损坏和可维修的交通道路网络的高分辨率视频。
HELP,Inc。将使用国际标准组织(ISO)标准干货集装箱快速将完整的DroneGo灾难响应系统运输到特定的灾区。 DroneGo船队中所有无人机的个别运输容器以及所有必需的医疗包装必须最多容纳三个ISO货物集装箱才能运送到一个地方,如果使用三个货物集装箱,则最多可容纳三个不同地点在灾区。应包装每个运输容器的内容,以便最大限度地减少对未使用空间的缓冲材料的需求。表1显示了ISO标准干货集装箱的尺寸。

要求您的团队利用2017年在波多黎各的情况设计一个DroneGodisaster响应系统,该系统将适合所述容器,同时在潜在的类似未来灾难情景中满足预期的医疗供应需求。此方案的需求可能超出您的团队识别的无人机机队的能力。如果发生这种情况,HELP,Inc。希望清楚地理解为实现解决这些缺点的解决方案必须做出的任何权衡。
第1部分。开发DroneGo灾难响应系统,以支持波多黎各飓风灾难情景。请考虑背景信息,问题陈述中确定的要求以及问题附件中提供的信息,以解决以下问题。
A.为HELP,Inc。DroneGo灾难响应系统推荐无人机机队和一套医疗包,以满足波多黎各飓风情景的要求。为最多三个ISO货物集装箱中的每一个设计相关的包装配置,以将系统运输到波多黎各。
B.确定波多黎各最佳位置或位置,以定位一个,两个或三个货物
DroneGo灾难响应系统的容器能够同时进行医疗
道路网络的供应和视频侦察。
C.对于DroneGo舰队中包含的每种类型的无人机:
一个。提供无人机有效载荷包装配置(即医疗包装)
装入无人机货舱),送货路线和时间表,以满足确定
波多黎各飓风情景的紧急医疗包要求。
湾提供无人机飞行计划,使DroneGo车队能够在机上使用
用于评估主要公路和道路的摄像机,以支持Help,Inc。
任务。第2部分。备忘录向HELP,Inc。首席运营官(CEO)提交1-2页备忘录,总结您的建模结果,结论和建议,以便与董事会分享。
您的MCM团队提交应包括:
单页摘要表,
向HELP,Inc。首席执行官发送一到两页的备忘录
您的解决方案不超过20页,最多23页,包含摘要和备忘录。
注意:参考列表和任何附录不计入23页的限制,应在完成的解决方案后显示。
附件:
1.波多黎各地图
2.针对DroneGo舰队考虑的潜在候选无人机(使用Drone有效载荷
能力)
3.无人机货物海湾包装配置/尺寸
4.预期的医疗包装需求
5.紧急医疗包配置

 

英文原题:
Background: In 2017, the worst hurricane to ever hit the United States territory of Puerto Rico(see Attachment 1) left the island with severe damage and caused over 2900 fatalities. The
combined destructive power of the hurricane’s storm surge and wave action produced extensivedamage to buildings, homes, and roads, particularly along the east and southeast coast of Puerto
Rico. The storm, with its fierce winds and heavy rain, knocked down 80 percent of Puerto Rico’sutility poles and all transmission lines, resulting in loss of power to essentially all of the island’s3.4 million residents. In addition, the storm damaged or destroyed the majority of the island’s cellular communication networks. The electrical power and cell service outages lasted for
months across much of the island, and longer in some locations. Widespread flooding blocked and damaged many highways and roads across the island, making it nearly impossible for emergency services ground vehicles to plan and navigate their routes. The full extent of the damage in Puerto Rico remained unclear for some time; dozens of areas were isolated and without communication. Demands for medical supplies, lifesaving equipment, and treatment strained health-care clinics, hospital emergency rooms, and non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) relief operations. Demand for medical care continued to surge for some time as the chronically ill turned to hospitals and temporary shelters for care.

Problem: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often challenged to provide adequate and timely response during or after natural disasters, such as the hurricane that struck the United States territory of Puerto Rico in 2017. One NGO in particular – HELP, Inc. – is attempting to improve its response capabilities by designing a transportable disaster response system called “DroneGo.” DroneGo will use rotor wing drones to deliver pre-packaged medical supplies and provide high-resolution aerial video reconnaissance. Selected drones should be able to perform these two missions – medical supply delivery and video reconnaissance – simultaneously or separately, depending on relief conditions and scheduling. HELP, Inc. has identified various candidate rotor wing drones that it would like your team to consider for possible use in designing its DroneGo fleet (see Attachments 2, 3).
DroneGo’s pre-packaged medical supplies, called medical packages, are meant to augment, not replace, the supplies provided by local medical assistance organizations on-site within the country affected by the disaster. HELP, Inc. is planning on three different medical packages referred to as MED1, MED2, and MED3. Drones will carry these medical packages within drone cargo bays for delivery to selected locations (see Attachments 4, 5). Depending on the specific drone being used to transport medical supplies, it may be possible that multiple medical packages can be transported in a single drone cargo bay. Note that drones must land on the ground to offload medical supplies from the drone cargo bays. The video capability of the drones will provide high-resolution video of damaged and serviceable transportation road networks to HELP, Inc.’s command and control center for ground-based route planning.
HELP, Inc. will use International Standards Organization (ISO) standard dry cargo containers to quickly transport a complete DroneGo disaster response system to a particular disaster area. The individual shipping containers for all drones in the DroneGo fleet, along with all requiredmedical packages, must fit within a maximum of three of the ISO cargo containers to be delivered to a single location, or up to three different locations if three cargo containers are used in the disaster area. Each shipping container’s contents should be packed in order to minimize any need for buffer materials for unused space. Table 1 shows the dimensions of an ISO standard dry cargo container.

HELP, Inc. is asking your team to use the 2017 situation in Puerto Rico to design a DroneGodisaster response system that will fit within the containers noted while meeting the anticipated medical supply demands during a potential similar future disaster scenario. It is possible that the demand requirements of this scenario may exceed the capabilities of the drone fleet your team identifies. If this occurs, HELP, Inc. wants to clearly understand any tradeoffs that it must make for implementing solutions to address these shortcomings.
Part 1. Develop a DroneGo disaster response system to support the Puerto Rico hurricane disaster scenario.
Consider the background information, the requirements identified in the problem statement, and the information provided in the problem attachments to address the following.
A. Recommend a drone fleet and set of medical packages for the HELP, Inc. DroneGo disaster response system that will meet the requirements of the Puerto Rico hurricane scenario. Design the associated packing configuration for each of up to three ISO cargo containers to transport the system to Puerto Rico.
B. Identify the best location or locations on Puerto Rico to position one, two, or three cargo
containers of the DroneGo disaster response system to be able to conduct both medical
supply delivery and video reconnaissance of road networks.
C. For each type of drone included in the DroneGo fleet:
a. Provide the drone payload packing configurations (i.e. the medical packages
packed into the drone cargo bay), delivery routes and schedule to meet the identified
emergency medical package requirements of the Puerto Rico hurricane scenario.
b. Provide a drone flight plan that will enable the DroneGo fleet to use onboard
video cameras to assess the major highways and roads in support of the Help, Inc.
mission.Part 2. MemoWrite a 1–2 page memo to the Chief Operating Officer (CEO) of HELP, Inc. summarizing your modeling results, conclusions, and recommendations so that she can share with her Board of Directors.
Your MCM team submission should consist of:
 One-page Summary Sheet,
 One- to Two-page memo to the HELP, Inc. CEO
 Your solution of no more than 20 pages, for a maximum of 23 pages with your summary and memo.
 Note: Reference list and any appendices do not count toward the 23-page limit and should appear after your completed solution.
Attachments:
1. Map of Puerto Rico
2. Potential Candidate Drones for DroneGo Fleet Consideration (with Drone payload
capability)
3. Drone Cargo Bay Packing Configuration/Dimensions by Type
4. Anticipated Medical Package Demand
5. Emergency Medical Package Config

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