Vehicle Routing Problems for Drone Delivery

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 70-85

  Dorling, Kevin ^a   Heinrichs, Jordan ^a   Messier, Geoffrey G ^a   Magierowski, Sebastian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delivery; drone; heuristic; mixed integer program (MIP); simulated annealing (SA); traveling salesman problem (TSP); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); vehicle routing problem (VRP)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BUDGET CONTROL; COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLE ROUTING;

DELIVERY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION MODEL; HEURISTIC; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAM; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMS; SUBOPTIMAL SOLUTION; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS;

DRONES;

EID: 85007470663     PISSN: 21682216     EISSN: 21682232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMC.2016.2582745     Document Type: Article

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