Implementation and critical factors of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in warehouse management: A systematic literature review

C Malang, P Charoenkwan, R Wudhikarn - Drones, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have proven to be a key solution for nearly automated or
smart warehouse operations, enabling receiving, picking, storage, and ship** processes …

Energy-constrained delivery of goods with drones under varying wind conditions

FB Sorbelli, F Corò, SK Das… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study the feasibility of sending drones to deliver goods from a depot to a
customer by solving what we call the Mission-Feasibility Problem (MFP). Due to payload …

On the evaluation of a drone-based delivery system on a mixed euclidean-manhattan grid

FB Sorbelli, CM Pinotti, G Rigoni - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we investigate the use of drones in a delivery scenario formed by two
contiguous areas. In one area the drones can freely fly on straight lines between any two …

Efficient route selection for drone-based delivery under time-varying dynamics

A Khanda, F Corò, FB Sorbelli… - 2021 IEEE 18th …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones can be a valuable solution for the problem of delivering goods for many
reasons. In fact, they can be efficiently employed in time-critical situations when there is a …

[HTML][HTML] Locating charging stations and routing drones for efficient automated stocktaking

P Vichitkunakorn, S Emde, M Masae, CH Glock… - European Journal of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Drones have received growing attention in logistics recently. One possible application is
deploying drones for auditing inventory in warehouses. With the use of drones, warehouses …

Drone-based warehouse inventory management of perishables

G Kapoor, YS Lee, R Sikora, S Piramuthu - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Warehouse inventory management is a complex process. When inventory includes
perishables, the complexity of these processes is compounded with additional requirements …

Dispatching point selection for a drone-based delivery system operating in a mixed Euclidean–Manhattan grid

F Betti Sorbelli, F Corò, SK Das, CM Pinotti… - Annals of Operations …, 2023‏ - Springer
In this paper, we present a drone-based delivery system that assumes to deal with a mixed-
area, ie, two areas, one rural and one urban, placed side-by-side. In the mixed-areas, called …

Routing drones being aware of wind conditions: A case study

L Palazzetti - … Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the manner in which energy consumption in drone deliveries is
affected by windy environmental conditions. We know in fact that the energy consumption of …

Speeding up routing schedules on aisle graphs with single access

FB Sorbelli, S Carpin, F Coro, SK Das… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study the orienteering aisle-graph single-access problem (OASP), a variant
of the orienteering problem for a robot moving in a so-called single-access aisle graph, ie, a …

Optimal routing schedules for robots operating in aisle-structures

FB Sorbelli, S Carpin, F Corò… - … on Robotics and …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the Constant-cost Orienteering Problem (COP) where a robot,
constrained by a limited travel budget, aims at selecting a path with the largest reward in an …