Drone delivery scheduling optimization considering payload-induced battery consumption rates

M Torabbeigi, GJ Lim, SJ Kim - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2020 - Springer
This paper addresses the design of a parcel delivery system using drones, which includes
the strategic planning of the system and operational planning for a given region. The amount …

Algorithms for routing an unmanned aerial vehicle in the presence of refueling depots

K Sundar, S Rathinam - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider a single Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) routing problem where there are
multiple depots and the vehicle is allowed to refuel at any depot. The objective of the …

Complete coverage path planning for a multi-UAV response system in post-earthquake assessment

A Nedjati, G Izbirak, B Vizvari, J Arkat - Robotics, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a post-earthquake response system for a rapid damage assessment. In
this system, multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are deployed to collect the images …

Optimal routing, aborting and hitting strategies of UAVs executing hitting the targets considering the defense range of targets

X Zhu, X Zhu, R Yan, R Peng - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper is an attempt to investigate optimal routing, aborting and hitting strategies of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) executing hitting tasks. Several factors such as time …

Joint routing and aborting optimization of cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles

R Peng - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper incorporates the abort policy into the routing problem of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAV). In order to serve a number of targets, some UAVs can be deployed each …

Cbss: A new approach for multiagent combinatorial path finding

Z Ren, S Rathinam, H Choset - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional multiagent path finding (MAPF) problems aim to compute an ensemble of
collision-free paths for multiple agents from their respective starting locations to preallocated …

Ms*: A new exact algorithm for multi-agent simultaneous multi-goal sequencing and path finding

Z Ren, S Rathinam, H Choset - 2021 IEEE international …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In multi-agent applications such as surveillance and logistics, fleets of mobile agents are
often expected to coordinate and safely visit a large number of goal locations as efficiently …

A comparative study between optimization and market‐based approaches to multi‐robot task allocation

M Badreldin, A Hussein… - Advances in Artificial …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a comparative study between optimization‐based and market‐based
approaches used for solving the Multirobot task allocation (MRTA) problem that arises in the …

Surveillance planning with Bézier curves

J Faigl, P Váňa - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter concerns surveillance planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is
requested to periodically take snapshots of areas of interest by visiting a given set of …

Tightly bounding the shortest dubins paths through a sequence of points

SG Manyam, S Rathinam, D Casbeer… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2017 - Springer
This article addresses an important path planning problem for robots and Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs), which is to find the shortest path of bounded curvature passing through a …