The vehicle routing problem with drones: several worst-case results
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...The limited capacity of the energy unit is usually modeled as maximal operation time [274, 292], maximal flying distance [104, 244], or the limited number of addresses a drone can visit during one flight [75, 237]....
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...[287] Decentral H, EmpCS, Exp several drones, UGVs a general framework: no specific drone characteristics are formulated other (environmental protection and disaster management) [292] P several drones, several trucks limited flight time, delivery of 1 package per sortie transport...
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...4) Synchronization [89,158,312] [262] [3,37,41,58,106,140,186,215,287,292] No synchronization [81,165–167,274] [78,122,141,200,243,244,248] [82,186,212,271,281,296] et al....
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...Battery swaps and refueling usually require assistance of a human operator [292]; however, there exist fully automated platforms able to exchange or to recharge the battery of a drone in just a couple of minutes [53, 268, 269, 275]....
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...Also in this operation type, most common objectives aim at minimizing the makespan (eg, completion time of a route) [3, 41, 186, 243, 271, 292] and the cost [37, 167, 271], such as energy consumption [287] or the number of required drones [122]....
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...Three recent papers are Murray and Chu [7], Agatz et al. [1], and Gambella et al. [5]....
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...Three recent papers are Murray and Chu [7], Agatz et al....
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...The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a well-studied problem [6,10]....
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