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Approximation Algorithms for Drone Delivery Scheduling Problem

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Saswata Jana
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Partha Sarathi Mandal *
DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-37765-5_10delete
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The coordination among drones and ground vehicles for last-mile delivery has gained significant interest in recent years. In this paper, we study multiple drone delivery scheduling problem (MDSP) [3] for last-mile delivery, where we have a set of drones with an identical battery budget and a set of delivery locations, along with profit for delivery, cost and delivery time intervals. The objective of the MDSP is to find conflict-free schedules for each drone such that the total profit gained is maximum subject to the battery constraint of the drones. In this paper, we propose a fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for the single drone delivery scheduling problem (SDSP) and a 1/3-approximation algorithm for MDSP with a constraint on the number of drones. We also describe a deterministic rounding algorithm for the problem by relaxing the integer linear programming(ILP) formulation of the problem.
Keywords:
Approximation Algorithm
Drone Delivery Scheduling
Truck
Last-mile Delivery

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Networked Systems and NETYS
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indian institute of technology system (iit system)
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Citations: 93