R She, Y Ouyang - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emerging unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies have motivated logistics carriers to seek last-mile parcel delivery through the air so as to benefit from its convenience and …
Nowadays, drones are not just deployed for defense and military establishments, but they are widely used in many applications such as natural disaster monitoring, soil and crop …
The ever-increasing demand for urban delivery services significantly exacerbates the traffic conditions on our already overly congested urban streets. The problem is even worsened by …
J Li, H Liu, KK Lai, B Ram - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the context of frequent public emergencies, emergency logistics distribution is particularly critical, and because of the unique advantages of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the …
Highlights What are the main findings? Developed a combined task scheduling and path planning framework for enabling optimized and safe drone delivery services in an urban …
The range of applications of RPAs in various industries indicates that their increased usage could reduce operational costs and time. Remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) can be …
The use of drones can be a valuable solution for the problem of delivering goods for many reasons. In fact, they can be efficiently employed in time-critical situations when there is a …
Bayesian optimization is a sequential method that can optimize a single and costly objective function based on a surrogate model. In this work, we propose a Bayesian optimization …
We extend the classical SIR epidemic spread model by introducing the “quarantined” compartment. We solve (numerically) the differential equations that govern the extended …