Current drone delivery systems mostly focus on point-to-point package delivery. We present a multi-stop drone service system to deliver packages anywhere anytime within a specified geographic area. We define a skyway network which takes into account flying regulations, including restricted areas and no-fly zones. The skyway nodes typically represent building rooftops which may act as both recharging stations and delivery destinations. A heuristic-based A* algorithm is used to compute an optimal path from source to destination taking into account a number of constraints, including delivery time, availability of recharging stations, etc. We deploy our drone delivery system in an indoor testbed environment using a 3D model of Sydney CBD. We describe a graphical user interface to monitor the real-time package delivery in the skyway network.
@article{arxiv.2108.06056,
title = {Package Delivery Using Autonomous Drones in Skyways},
author = {Woojin Lee and Balsam Alkouz and Babar Shahzaad and Athman Bouguettaya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.06056},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
2 pages, 5 figures. This is an accepted demo paper and it is going to appear in the Proceedings of 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp21)