An energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for UAV delivery networks

In recent years, the demand of express industry has increased rapidly, and the express industry is under increasing pressure. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery has become an effective supplement to vehicle delivery due to its low human cost, flexibility and convenience. However, UAVs are of...

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Main Authors: XU Jia, YUAN Ming, WU Sixu, TAN Xin, LUO Jian
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Published: China InfoCom Media Group 2024-06-01
Series:物联网学报
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Online Access:http://www.wlwxb.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.2096-3750.2024.00359/
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YUAN Ming
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TAN Xin
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WU Sixu
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LUO Jian
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description In recent years, the demand of express industry has increased rapidly, and the express industry is under increasing pressure. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery has become an effective supplement to vehicle delivery due to its low human cost, flexibility and convenience. However, UAVs are often limited by factors such as endurance and load capacity, requiring a low-cost and energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for delivery and charging to support collaborative delivery of multiple UAVs. A two-stage self-sustaining multiple UAV cooperative delivery and charging scheduling scheme was proposed. The first stage aims at finding the delivery routes of UAVs to complete all delivery tasks in the region such that the number of UAVs was minimized under the energy and load capacity constraints of UAVs. The UAV delivery scheduling algorithm (UDSA) was proposed, and the approximation of UDSA was proved theoretically. The second stage aims to schedule the charging of UAVs with different arrival times to minimize the maximum charging completion time of all UAVs. An approximate UAV delivery scheduling algorithm (UCSA) was proposed to solve the problem. The simulation results show that, compared with the benchmark algorithm, UDSA can reduce the number of UAVs by 44.17% at most, and UCSA can reduce the maximum charging completion time by 18.87% at most.
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spelling doaj-art-e92cc15163164cd69bca10a44cf002ec2025-01-15T02:54:09ZzhoChina InfoCom Media Group物联网学报2096-37502024-06-018567067576802An energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for UAV delivery networksXU JiaYUAN MingWU SixuTAN XinLUO JianIn recent years, the demand of express industry has increased rapidly, and the express industry is under increasing pressure. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery has become an effective supplement to vehicle delivery due to its low human cost, flexibility and convenience. However, UAVs are often limited by factors such as endurance and load capacity, requiring a low-cost and energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for delivery and charging to support collaborative delivery of multiple UAVs. A two-stage self-sustaining multiple UAV cooperative delivery and charging scheduling scheme was proposed. The first stage aims at finding the delivery routes of UAVs to complete all delivery tasks in the region such that the number of UAVs was minimized under the energy and load capacity constraints of UAVs. The UAV delivery scheduling algorithm (UDSA) was proposed, and the approximation of UDSA was proved theoretically. The second stage aims to schedule the charging of UAVs with different arrival times to minimize the maximum charging completion time of all UAVs. An approximate UAV delivery scheduling algorithm (UCSA) was proposed to solve the problem. The simulation results show that, compared with the benchmark algorithm, UDSA can reduce the number of UAVs by 44.17% at most, and UCSA can reduce the maximum charging completion time by 18.87% at most.http://www.wlwxb.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.2096-3750.2024.00359/UAVdelivery schedulingvehicle routing problemwireless charging scheduling
spellingShingle XU Jia
YUAN Ming
WU Sixu
TAN Xin
LUO Jian
An energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for UAV delivery networks
物联网学报
UAV
delivery scheduling
vehicle routing problem
wireless charging scheduling
title An energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for UAV delivery networks
title_full An energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for UAV delivery networks
title_fullStr An energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for UAV delivery networks
title_full_unstemmed An energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for UAV delivery networks
title_short An energy self-sustaining scheduling scheme for UAV delivery networks
title_sort energy self sustaining scheduling scheme for uav delivery networks
topic UAV
delivery scheduling
vehicle routing problem
wireless charging scheduling
url http://www.wlwxb.com.cn/zh/article/doi/10.11959/j.issn.2096-3750.2024.00359/
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