This paper considers a version of the flying sidekick travel- ing salesman problem in which parcels are delivered to cus- tomers by either a truck or a set of identical flying drones. The drones’ flights are limited by the battery endurance and each flight is made of a launch, a service to a customer, and a return: launch and return must happen when the truck is stationary. These operations require time and when multi- ple drones are launched and/or collected at the same node, their order becomes relevant. The proposed model takes into account the order of these operations as a scheduling problem, because ignoring it could lead to infeasible solu- tions in the reality due to the possible exceeding of drones endurance. We propose a set of novel formulations for the problem that can improve the size of the largest instances solved in the literature. We provide a comparison among the formulations, between the multiple drones solutions and the single drone ones, and among different variants of the model.

Modeling the Flying Sidekick Traveling Salesman Problem with Multiple Drones / Dell'Amico, Mauro; Montemanni, Roberto; Novellani, Stefano. - In: NETWORKS. - ISSN 1097-0037. - (2021), pp. 1-33. [10.1002/net.22022]

Modeling the Flying Sidekick Traveling Salesman Problem with Multiple Drones

Mauro Dell'Amico;Roberto Montemanni;Stefano Novellani
2021

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This paper considers a version of the flying sidekick travel- ing salesman problem in which parcels are delivered to cus- tomers by either a truck or a set of identical flying drones. The drones’ flights are limited by the battery endurance and each flight is made of a launch, a service to a customer, and a return: launch and return must happen when the truck is stationary. These operations require time and when multi- ple drones are launched and/or collected at the same node, their order becomes relevant. The proposed model takes into account the order of these operations as a scheduling problem, because ignoring it could lead to infeasible solu- tions in the reality due to the possible exceeding of drones endurance. We propose a set of novel formulations for the problem that can improve the size of the largest instances solved in the literature. We provide a comparison among the formulations, between the multiple drones solutions and the single drone ones, and among different variants of the model.
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Modeling the Flying Sidekick Traveling Salesman Problem with Multiple Drones / Dell'Amico, Mauro; Montemanni, Roberto; Novellani, Stefano. - In: NETWORKS. - ISSN 1097-0037. - (2021), pp. 1-33. [10.1002/net.22022]
Dell'Amico, Mauro; Montemanni, Roberto; Novellani, Stefano
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