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A segment (barrier) is specified on the plane, as well as depots, where the mobile devices (drones) can be placed. Each drone departs from its depot to the barrier, moves along the barrier and returns to its depot, traveling a path of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Adil Erzin , Anzhela Shadrina

We address the problem of assigning a team of drones to autonomously capture a set desired shots of a dynamic target in the presence of obstacles. We present a two-stage planning pipeline that generates offline an assignment of drone to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Aaron Ray , Alyssa Pierson , Hai Zhu , Javier Alonso-Mora , Daniela Rus

The rapid growth of e-commerce and the increasing demand for timely, cost-effective last-mile delivery have increased interest in collaborative logistics. This research introduces a novel collaborative synchronized multi-platform vehicle…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sumbal Malik , Majid Khonji , Khaled Elbassioni , Jorge Dias

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone is increasingly becoming a promising tool in communication system. This report explains the generation details of a dataset which will be used to designing an algorithm for the optimal placement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jialin Hao

Telecommunication networks frequently face technological advancements and need to upgrade their infrastructure. Adapting legacy networks to the latest technology requires synchronized technicians responsible for migrating the equipment. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Maryam Daryalal , Hamed Pouya

Autonomous drone swarms are a burgeoning technology with significant applications in the field of mapping, inspection, transportation and monitoring. To complete a task, each drone has to accomplish a sub-goal within the context of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Rohith Gandhi Ganesan , Samantha Kappagoda , Giuseppe Loianno , David K. A. Mordecai

Column generation is an iterative method used to solve a variety of optimization problems. It decomposes the problem into two parts: a master problem, and one or more pricing problems (PP). The total computing time taken by the method is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Mouad Morabit , Guy Desaulniers , Andrea Lodi

This paper investigates the optimal infrastructure planning and order assignment problem of an on-demand food-delivery platform with a mixed fleet of drones and human couriers. The platform has two delivery modes: (a) ground delivery and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Yang Liu , Yitong Shang , Sen Li

Unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are becoming increasingly popular due to their low cost and high mobility. In this paper we address the routing and coordination of a drone-truck pairing where the drone travels to multiple locations to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Fanruiqi Zeng , Zaiwei Chen , John-Paul Clarke , David Goldsman

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

We propose a novel framework for swarm-based drone delivery services with in-flight energy recharging. The framework aims to enhance the delivery time of multiple packages by reducing the number of stops and recharging times at intermediate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Balsam Alkouz , Amani Abusafia , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

With the growing penetration of electric trucks, freight transportation is transitioning toward a mixed system comprising both fuel-powered and electric trucks. Enhancing truck platoon formation in such a heterogeneous environment presents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Ying Wang , Ting Bai , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

For the problem of delivering a package from a source node to a destination node in a graph using a set of drones, we study the setting where the movements of each drone are restricted to a certain subgraph of the given graph. We consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Thomas Erlebach , Kelin Luo , Frits C. R. Spieksma

As Urban air mobility scales, commercial drone fleets offer a compelling, yet underexplored opportunity to function as mobile sensor networks for real-time urban traffic monitoring. In this paper, we propose a decentralized framework that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Pengbo Zhu , Meng Xu , Andreas A. Malikopoulos , Nikolas Geroliminis

Swarms of drones are being more and more used in many practical scenarios, such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, search and rescue in hardly-accessible areas, etc.. While a single drone can be guided by a human operator, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Claudio Piciarelli , Gian Luca Foresti

In many manufacturing processes, batch processing is frequently needed for capacity reasons. This applies both to parallel and serial batching. However, while the serial batch processing is largely studied in the literature, as it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Arianna Alfieri , Alessandro Druetto , Andrea Grosso , Fabio Salassa

The coordination among drones and ground vehicles for last-mile delivery has gained significant interest in recent years. In this paper, we study \textit{multiple drone delivery scheduling problem(MDSP) \cite{Betti_ICDCN22} for last-mile…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Saswata Jana , Partha Sarathi Mandal

We consider a remote sensing system in which fixed sensors are placed in a region, and a drone flies over the region to collect information from cluster heads. We assume that the drone has a fixed maximum range, and that the energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Ramkumar Ganapathy , Christopher Thron

Drone swarms are required for the simultaneous delivery of multiple packages. We demonstrate a multi-stop drone swarm-based delivery in a smart city. We leverage formation flying to conserve energy and increase the flight range of a drone…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Xijing Liu , Kevin Lam , Balsam Alkouz , Babar Shahzaad , Athman Bouguettaya

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are being increasingly deployed throughout the globe as a means to streamline monitoring, inspection, mapping, and logistic routines. When dispatched on autonomous missions, drones…