Drone scheduling for parcel delivery with an access grade to stops on a fixed truck route

In this paper, we consider a parcel delivery scheduling problem of minimizing the total duration for a truck-drone distribution system to serve a given set of customers. The single carrier truck plays the role of a mobile depot of multiple identical drones, and the drones with unit capacity perform...

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Main Authors: Kotaro YAMADA, Yoshiyuki KARUNO, Riki KATAOKA, Sota SAWADA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers 2024-02-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Mechanical Design, Systems, and Manufacturing
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Online Access:https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jamdsm/18/2/18_2024jamdsm0021/_pdf/-char/en