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Discrete Optimization on Truck-Drone Collaborative Transportation System for Delivering Medical Resources

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  • Min Lin
  • Yuming Chen
  • Rui Han
  • Yao Chen
  • Douglas R. Anderson

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Under the epidemic, closed management has turned a large number of communities into lonely islands, and the contactless delivery method of UAV has become the rigid demand in this special period. This paper studies a collaborative system of multi-UAV multitruck transportation, which can deliver emergency materials such as medicine to remote areas or closed communities. In this system, delivery tasks are assigned to multiple trucks and multiple drones on each truck can perform delivery tasks in parallel, thereby improving delivery efficiency. We study the routing problem of this system specifically for medical supplying road network and establish mixed-integer model and hybrid algorithm. We show by experiments that the number of trucks has more significant impact on the optimal solution than the number of drones and the performance of hybrid particle swarm optimization is better than the performance of the other algorithms.

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  • Min Lin & Yuming Chen & Rui Han & Yao Chen & Douglas R. Anderson, 2022. "Discrete Optimization on Truck-Drone Collaborative Transportation System for Delivering Medical Resources," Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Hindawi, vol. 2022, pages 1-13, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnddns:1811288
    DOI: 10.1155/2022/1811288
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    1. Sabuncu, Özlem & Bilgehan, Bülent, 2024. "Revolutionizing healthcare 5.0: Blockchain-driven optimization of drone-to-everything communication using 5G network for enhanced medical services," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).

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