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The increasing demand for fast and cost effective last mile delivery solutions has catalyzed significant advancements in drone based logistics. This research describes the development of an AI integrated drone delivery system, focusing on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Maharshi Shastri , Ujjval Shrivastav

We consider the problem of controlling a large fleet of drones to deliver packages simultaneously across broad urban areas. To conserve energy, drones hop between public transit vehicles (e.g., buses and trams). We design a comprehensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Shushman Choudhury , Kiril Solovey , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Marco Pavone

Due to the limitation of the drone's load capacity, various specific tasks need to be accomplished by multiple drones in collaboration. In some transportation tasks, two drones are required to lift the load together, which brings even more…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Peng Zhang , Yongchun Fang , Xiao Liang , He Lin , Wei He

This paper presents a set of new formulations for the Flying Sidekick Traveling Salesman Problem, where a truck and a drone cooperate to delivery parcels to customers minimizing the completion time. The new formulations improve the results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Mauro Dell'Amico , Roberto Montemanni , Stefano Novellani

Recent advancements in unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones, have motivated logistics to use drones for multiple operations. Collaboration between drones and trucks in a last-mile delivery system has numerous benefits and reduces…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Saswata Jana , Partha Sarathi Mandal

We study the resource sharing problem in a drone-based wireless network. We consider a distributed control setting under uncertainty (i.e. unavailability of full information). In particular, the drones cooperate in serving the users while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Vandana Mittal , Setareh Maghsudi , Ekram Hossain

Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, has emerged as an efficient and cost-effective solution for package delivery. Especially, drones are expected to incur lower cost, and achieve fast and environment friendly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Suttinee Sawadsitang , Dusit Niyato , Tan Puay Siew , Ping Wang

Recently, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), as known as drone, has become an alternative means of package delivery. Although the drone delivery scheduling has been studied in recent years, most existing models are formulated as a single…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Suttinee Sawadsitang , Dusit Niyato , Puay Siew Tan , Sarana Nutanong

Current drone delivery solutions mainly focus on single package delivery using one drone. However, the recent developments in drone technology enable a drone to deliver multiple packages in a single trip. We use the nearest destination…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Seunghyun Lee , Babar Shahzaad , Balsam Alkouz , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

In this work, we present a system that enables delivery drones to autonomously navigate and deliver packages at various locations around a house according to the desire of the recipient and without the need for any external markers as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

In this paper, we study the feasibility of sending drones to deliver goods from a depot to a customer by solving what we call the Mission-Feasibility Problem (MFP). Due to payload constraints, the drone can serve only one customer at a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Francesco Betti Sorbelli , Federico Corò , Sajal K. Das , Cristina M. Pinotti

Two cooperating, autonomous mobile robots with arbitrary nonzero max speeds are placed at arbitrary initial positions in the plane. A remotely detonated bomb is discovered at some source location and must be moved to a safe distance away…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jared Coleman , Evangelos Kranakis , Danny Krizanc , Oscar Morales-Ponce

The use of drones in logistics is gaining more and more interest, and drones are becoming a more viable and common way of distributing parcels in an urban environment. As a consequence, there is a flourishing production of articles in the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Mauro Dell'Amico , Roberto Montemanni , Stefano Novellani

Humanitarian logistics service providers have two major responsibilities immediately after a disaster: locating trapped people and routing aid to them. These difficult operations are further hindered by failures in the transportation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Tasnim Ibn Faiz , Chrysafis Vogiatzis , Md. Noor-E-Alam

The application of drones in the last-mile distribution is a research hotspot in recent years. Different from the previous urban distribution mode that depends on trucks, this paper proposes a novel package pick-up and delivery mode and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Fangyu Hong , Guohua Wu , Qizhang Luo , Huan Liu , Xiaoping Fang , Witold Pedrycz

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become important in many applications including last-mile deliveries, surveillance and monitoring, and wireless networks. This paper aims to design UAV trajectories that simultaneously perform multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Mohammadjavad Khosravi , Hamid Saeedi , Hossein Pishro-Nik

We consider the problem of optimizing the distribution operations at a drone hub that dispatches drones to different geographic locations generating stochastic demands for medical supplies. Drone delivery is an innovative method that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Amin Asadi , Sarah Nurre Pinkley , Martijn Mes

Fast shipping and efficient routing are key problems of modern logistics. Building on previous studies that address package delivery from a source node to a destination within a graph using multiple agents (such as vehicles, drones, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Simon Bartlmae , Andreas Hene , Kelin Luo

In this paper, the problem of drone-assisted collaborative learning is considered. In this scenario, swarm of intelligent wireless devices train a shared neural network (NN) model with the help of a drone. Using its sensors, each device…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Mahnoosh Mahdavimoghadam , Rahim Tafazolli , Walid Saad

Drones are currently seen as a viable way for improving the distribution of parcels in urban and rural environments, while working in coordination with traditional vehicles like trucks. In this paper we consider the parallel drone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Roberto Montemanni , Mauro Dell'Amico