trajectory optimisation

Routing a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles: a trajectory optimisation-based framework

  • Walton P. Coutinho
  • Jörg Fliege
  • Maria Battarra
  • Anand Subramanian
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Nonlinear Programming, Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Systems governed by Differential Equations Optimization Tags , ,

    We consider an aerial survey operation in which a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is required to visit several locations and then land in one of the available landing sites while optimising some performance criteria, subject to operational constraints and flight dynamics. We aim to minimise the maximum flight time of the UAVs. To … Read more

    Integrated Trajectory-Location-Routing for Rapid Humanitarian Deliveries using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Panagiotis Angeloudis
  • Jose Javier Escribano Macias
  • Washington Ochieng
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences Tags , ,

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have the potential to provide an economical solution to the challenges of post-disaster land-based relief operations. Beyond regulatory concerns, technical and particularly airspace integration limitations inhibit their deployment in practice. To address these issues and ensure uninterrupted optimal operations, we present a novel approach consisting of an integrated trajectory-location-routing algorithm that seeks … Read more