Optimization approaches for civil applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or aerial drones: A survey

A Otto, N Agatz, J Campbell, B Golden, E Pesch - Networks, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or aerial drones, are an emerging technology with
significant market potential. UAVs may lead to substantial cost savings in, for instance …

Robotic task sequencing problem: A survey

S Alatartsev, S Stellmacher, F Ortmeier - Journal of intelligent & robotic …, 2015 - Springer
Today, robotics is an important cornerstone of modern industrial production. Robots are
used for numerous reasons including reliability and continuously high quality of work. The …

Joint optimization on trajectory, altitude, velocity, and link scheduling for minimum mission time in UAV-aided data collection

J Li, H Zhao, H Wang, F Gu, J Wei… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the flexibility in 3-D space and high probability of line-of-sight (LoS) in air-to-ground
communications, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been considered as means to …

A review of cutting path algorithms for laser cutters

R Dewil, P Vansteenwegen, D Cattrysse - The International Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
This paper presents a review of the literature on generating cutting paths for laser cutting
machines. Firstly, the cutting path problem is defined including all relevant technical side …

Minimizing the deployment cost of UAVs for delay-sensitive data collection in IoT networks

W Xu, T Xiao, J Zhang, W Liang, Z Xu… - IEEE/ACM …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to collect data
from IoT devices, by finding a data collection tour for each UAV. To ensure the 'freshness' of …

Bundle charging: Wireless charging energy minimization in dense wireless sensor networks

N Wang, J Wu, H Dai - 2019 IEEE 39th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Using a mobile charger to wirelessly charge sensors is a promising yet not well-solved
technique. Existing trajectory planning schemes for wireless charger either (1) fail to …

The travelling salesman problem with neighbourhoods: MINLP solution

I Gentilini, F Margot, K Shimada - Optimization Methods and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The travelling salesman problem (TSP) with neighbourhoods extends the TSP to the case
where each vertex of the tour is allowed to move in a given region. This NP-hard …

Integrated task sequencing and path planning for robotic remote laser welding

A Kovács - International journal of production research, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the problem of integrated task sequencing and path planning in
Remote Laser Welding (RLW). It is shown that finding the appropriate order of welding tasks …

Complexity and approximability of the Euclidean generalized traveling salesman problem in grid clusters

M Khachay, K Neznakhina - Annals of Mathematics and Artificial …, 2020 - Springer
We consider the geometric version of the well-known Generalized Traveling Salesman
Problem introduced in 2015 by Bhattacharya et al. that is called the Euclidean Generalized …

Multi-goal path planning based on the generalized traveling salesman problem with neighborhoods

K Vicencio, B Davis, I Gentilini - 2014 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Often times in mobile robotics, optimizing a sequence of tasks and the paths between those
destinations is an essential factor. In simple cases, this problem can be modeled by the well …