Route Planning for Vehicles with UAVs Based on Set Covering

Qiuchen Gu () and Tijun Fan
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Qiuchen Gu: East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai
Tijun Fan: East China University of Science and Technology Shanghai

A chapter in Smart Service Systems, Operations Management, and Analytics, 2020, pp 275-281 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Due to the complexity of the last mile delivery, the emerging business called “just-in-time delivery” often has a strict service range limit. As a newly received method for last mile delivery, the UAVUAV can expand the service range of just-in-time delivery with the assistance of vehicles. This paper proposes a model based on the set covering model to locate the UAVUAV take-off point. After that, an improved ant colony algorithm is used to obtain the locationLocation result. Finally, the customer’s allocation method is proposed. Both methods are tested with randomly generated data and proved to be effective. It provides a reference for the future practice of the just-in-time delivery business.

Keywords: UAV; Set covering; Location; Route planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30967-1_25

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