Drone routing for drone-based delivery systems: A review of trajectory planning, charging, and security

AM Raivi, SMA Huda, MM Alam, S Moh - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recently, owing to the high mobility and low cost of drones, drone-based delivery systems
have shown considerable potential for ensuring flexible and reliable parcel delivery. Several …

Aerial: A meta review and discussion of challenges toward unmanned aerial vehicle operations in logistics, mobility, and monitoring

S Wandelt, S Wang, C Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There exists a tremendous number of research surveys on various aspects of UAV logistics,
mobility and monitoring tasks in the literature. These surveys have been published in distinct …

A deep reinforcement learning approach for solving the traveling salesman problem with drone

A Bogyrbayeva, T Yoon, H Ko, S Lim, H Yun… - … Research Part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reinforcement learning has recently shown promise in learning quality solutions in many
combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, the attention-based encoder-decoder …

Dynamic vehicle routing with random requests: A literature review

J Zhang, T Van Woensel - International Journal of Production Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Stimulated by the growing demand for logistics services and the advances in information
technologies, research interest in the dynamic vehicle routing problem with random requests …

Deep reinforcement learning for truck-drone delivery problem

Z Bi, X Guo, J Wang, S Qin, G Liu - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Utilizing drones for delivery is an effective approach to enhancing delivery efficiency and
lowering expenses. However, to overcome the delivery range and payload capacity …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcement learning for humanitarian relief distribution with trucks and UAVs under travel time uncertainty

R Van Steenbergen, M Mes, W Van Heeswijk - … Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Effective humanitarian relief operations are challenging in the aftermath of disasters, as
trucks are often faced with considerable travel time uncertainties due to damaged …

Integrated ground vehicle and drone routing with simultaneous surveillance coverage for evading intentional disruption

F Zandieh, SF Ghannadpour, MM Mazdeh - Transportation Research Part …, 2023 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to examine the use of drones to provide transportation security
during times of intentional disruption. Due to the nature of valuable goods, their …

A new evolutionary optimization algorithm with hybrid guidance mechanism for truck-multi drone delivery system

C Yılmaz, E Cengiz, HT Kahraman - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Synchronization of the Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone (TSP-D) is one of
the most complex NP-hard combinatorial routing problems in the literature. The speeds …

[HTML][HTML] Policy challenges for coordinated delivery of trucks and drones

S Wang, C Zheng, S Wandelt - Journal of the Air Transport Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
The application of drone technology promises to revolutionize the transportation industry.
Particularly, the combination of drones with ground vehicles has tremendous advantages for …

Data-driven robust optimization for a multi-trip truck-drone routing problem

MR Ghiasvand, D Rahmani… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Using drones along with conventional vehicles, such as trucks, can potentially improve the
cost-effectiveness and speed of delivery operations. This research considers a multi-trip …