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Multiple drone and truck combined operations

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  • Bhawesh Sah
  • Mohammad Moshref-Javadi
  • Sung Hoon Chung

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Drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have the capability to improve the responsiveness in parcel distribution process, however, drone delivery suffers from shortcomings such as limited battery life, and weight-carrying constraints. These shortcomings can be overcome if a drone works in conjunction with a truck to make parcel deliveries. In contrast to earlier models which focus on one drone and one truck, in this paper, we propose a novel model in which multiple drones and trucks can work together to fulfil the logistics operations, a drone can depart from a truck and return back to the same or a different truck after completing the operations and a truck can house multiple drones. We present a mixed integer linear programming formulation of the problem and present results from several heuristics such as genetic algorithm (GA), simulated annealing (SA), and greedy search combined with the insertion method.

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  • Bhawesh Sah & Mohammad Moshref-Javadi & Sung Hoon Chung, 2026. "Multiple drone and truck combined operations," International Journal of Operational Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 56(3), pages 269-289.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijores:v:56:y:2026:i:3:p:269-289
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