Solving the Aircraft Disassembly Scheduling Problem

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 22 May 2026] Solving the Aircraft Disassembly Scheduling Problem Charles Thomas, Pierre Schaus Dismantling aircrafts reaching their end of life is a complex endeavour that is necessary in terms of sustainability but yields small income margins for air transport companies. An efficient scheduling of the disassembly procedure is thus crucial to ensure the profitability of the process and incentivize practice. This is a large scheduling problem that involves thousands of tasks and many different constraints: Extracting parts that are destined to be reused requires technicians with specific certifications and equipment. Extraction operations might be subject to precedence relations. Furthermore, the aircraft must be kept balanced during the whole process. Finally, some of the locations of the aircraft have a limited space that caps the number of technicians able to work there concurrently. This article presents the problem in details and proposes two approaches to solve the problem: a Constraint Programming model and a MIP model. The models are tested on instances of varying sizes involving up to 1450 tasks, which are based on real operational data provided by an industrial partner. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2605.23592 [cs.AI]   (or arXiv:2605.23592v1 [cs.AI] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.23592 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Pierre Schaus [view email] [v1] Fri, 22 May 2026 13:01:16 UTC (381 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-05 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)