The market of small drones has been recently increasing due to their use in many fields of
application. The most popular drones are multirotors, in particular quadcopters. They are …

The range of operations of electric vehicles (EVs) is a critical aspect that may affect the
user's attitude toward them. For manned EVs, range anxiety is still perceived as a major …

The widespread adoption of EVs is limited by their reliance on batteries with presently low
energy and power densities compared to liquid fuels and are subject to aging and …

Drone logistics is considered as a disruptive business model reshaping logistics in the next
decades. Most prominent potential advantages of drone delivery are cost savings, high …

Finding the cost-optimal battery size in the context of parcel delivery with Electric Vehicles
(EVs) requires solving a tradeoff between using the largest possible battery (so as to …

Drones are becoming increasingly popular in the commercial market for various package
delivery services. In this scenario, the mostly adopted drones are quad-rotors (ie …

Recent works have shown that a coordinated delivery strategy in which a drone collaborates
with a truck using it as a moving depot is quite effective in improving the performance and …

The heterogeneous nature of SystemC-AMS makes it a perfect candidate solution to support
Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPSs), ie, systems that are characterized by a tight …

Driving range is one of the most critical issues for electric vehicles (EVs): running out of
battery charge while driving results in serious inconvenience even comparable to a vehicle …

Lifetime maximization is a key challenge in battery-powered multi-sensor devices. Battery-
aware power management strategies combine task scheduling with dynamic voltage scaling …