Last-mile delivery concepts: a survey from an operational research perspective

N Boysen, S Fedtke, S Schwerdfeger - Or Spectrum, 2021 - Springer
In the wake of e-commerce and its successful diffusion in most commercial activities, last-
mile distribution causes more and more trouble in urban areas all around the globe …

Unmanned aerial vehicle routing problems: a literature review

A Thibbotuwawa, G Bocewicz, P Nielsen, Z Banaszak - Applied sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) routing is transitioning from an emerging topic to a growing
research area as the 3D flexible utilization of airspace, promogulated by UAVs, is a potential …

UAV mission planning resistant to weather uncertainty

A Thibbotuwawa, G Bocewicz, G Radzki, P Nielsen… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Fleet mission planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is the process of creating flight
plans for a specific set of objectives and typically over a time period. Due to the increasing …

Autonomous obstacle avoidance and target tracking of uav based on deep reinforcement learning

G Xu, W Jiang, Z Wang, Y Wang - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022 - Springer
When using deep reinforcement learning algorithm to complete Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) autonomous obstacle avoidance and target tracking tasks, there are often some …

Planning and distributed control for cooperative transportation of a non-uniform slung-load by multiple quadrotors

F Arab, FA Shirazi, MRH Yazdi - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel control and planning algorithm for cooperative slung-load
transportation using multiple quadrotors. Each aerial robot modeled as a quadrotor is …

Convex decomposition for a coverage path planning for autonomous vehicles: Interior extension of edges

LD Nielsen, I Sung, P Nielsen - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
To cover an area of interest by an autonomous vehicle, such as an Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV), planning a coverage path which guides the unit to cover the area is an …

Applications and classifications of unmanned aerial vehicles: A literature review with focus on multi-rotors

MH Sabour, P Jafary, S Nematiyan - The Aeronautical Journal, 2023 - cambridge.org
During the past two decades, with the advancement of avionics, control systems, design,
product methods, and communication systems, UAVs have gained more interest from both …

Proactive operations management: staff allocation with competence maintenance constraints

E Szwarc, G Bocewicz, P Golińska-Dawson… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Highly qualified staff are the key to successful operations management in any organization.
In this paper, the emphasis is put on the problem of planning the rotational assignment of …

Aerial load transportation with multiple quadrotors based on a kinematic controller and a neural SMC dynamic compensation

F Rossomando, C Rosales, J Gimenez… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2020 - Springer
A novel formation control to transport a cable-suspended payload with two quadrotors is
presented. The control structure is based on a layered scheme combining a kinematic null …

KeepEdge: A knowledge distillation empowered edge intelligence framework for visual assisted positioning in UAV delivery

H Luo, T Chen, X Li, S Li, C Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) delivery is being increasingly used in the field of
logistics. However, it is highly challenging for a UAV to precisely identify the position for …