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Ground Vehicle and Drone Collaborative Delivery Planning using Genetic Algorithm

  • Song, Kyowon (Civil & Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Moon, Jung-Ho (Unmanned Aircraft System Engineering, Cheongju University)
  • Received : 2020.02.05
  • Accepted : 2020.08.24
  • Published : 2020.12.31
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Abstract

Global e-commerce and delivery companies are actively pursuing last-mile delivery service using drones, and various delivery schedule planning studies have been conducted. In this study, separate individual route networks were constructed to reflect drone route constraints such as prohibited airspace and truck route constraints such as rivers, which previous studies did not incorporate. The A* algorithm was used to calculate the shortest path distance matrix between the starting point and destinations. In addition, we proposed an optimal delivery schedule plan using genetic algorithms and applied it to compare the efficiency with that of vehicle-only delivery.

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