The interest in using drones in various applications has grown significantly in recent years.
The reasons are related to the continuous advances in technology, especially the advent of …

The operational design and planning of drone-based logistics models is a rapidly growing
area of scientific research. In this paper, we present a structured, comprehensive, and …

This paper deals with the problem of coordinating a truck and multiple heterogeneous
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) for last-mile package deliveries. Existing …

This paper surveys the state-of-the-art optimization approaches in the civil application of
drone operations (DO) and drone-truck combined operations (DTCO) including construction …

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 …

With the rise of e-commerce, there has been a surge in demand for efficient and accessible
last-mile delivery options, leading to the examination of promising new technologies such as …

This paper considers a last-mile delivery system in which a delivery truck operates in
coordination with a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones). Deploying UAVs …

The vehicle routing problem with drones (VRPD) is an extension of the classic capacitated
vehicle routing problem, where not only trucks but drones are used to deliver parcels to …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as drones, have attained
considerable interest in recent years due to the potential of revolutionizing transport and …

The emergence of the Internet of things and the widespread deployment of diverse
computing systems have led to the formation of heterogeneous multi-agent systems (MAS) …