Recently, drones, have been utilized in many real-life applications including healthcare
services. For example, providing medical supplies, blood samples, and vaccines to people …

Given a set of demand and potential facility locations and a set of fully available charged
drones, an agency seeks to locate a pre-specified number of capacitated facilities and …

Given a set of a spatially distributed demand for a specific commodity, potential facility
locations, and drones, an agency is tasked with locating a pre-specified number of facilities …

Purpose Previously use of drones as a relief distribution vehicle was studied in several
studies where required number of drones and the best locations for the relief centers were …

Currently, industry and academia are undergoing an evolution in developing the next
generation of drone applications. Including the development of autonomous drones that can …

In the last decade, aerial delivery system has been considered as a promising response to
increasing traffic jams and incremental demand for transportation. In this study, a distance …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones are increasingly proposed for medical uses
due to their potential to transport medical supplies quickly and efficiently. A prototype …

Truck-drone delivery systems have been proposed for sustainable and economical last-mile
distribution, especially in urban environments. To widen the service range, some works have …

Drone operation, a new driving force for logistics innovation, is struggling to overcome
practical challenges. One of the concerns for drone utilization is limited flight ranges, and …

Observing mobile or static targets in the ground using flying drones is a common task for
civilian and military applications. We introduce the minimum cost drone location problem …