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Drone-Fleet-Enabled Logistics: A Joint Design of Flight Trajectory and Package Delivery.
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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) [Sensors (Basel)] 2022 Apr 15; Vol. 22 (8). Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 15. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- In this work, we focus on a drone-fleet-enabled package delivery scenario, in which multiple drones fly from a start point and cooperatively deliver packages to the ground users in the presence of a number of no-fly zones (NFZs). We first mathematically model the package delivery scenario in a rigorous manner. Then, a package value maximization problem is established to optimize the flight trajectory and package delivery under the constraints of drone load and collision as well as NFZs. The formulated problem is a highly challenging mixed-integer non-convex problem. To facilitate solving it, we transform the formulated problem into an equivalent problem with special structure by using some appropriate transformations, based on which a low-complexity algorithm with favorable performance is developed using the penalty convex-concave procedure method. Finally, numerical results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed solution.
- Subjects :
- Algorithms
Unmanned Aerial Devices
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1424-8220
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 35459039
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s22083056