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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/D8D0EA62-0316-4F9E-B87D-49637C147A26 | ||
| Year | 2025 | ||
| Type of Item | Diploma Work | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | Leonidas-Efraim Spandagos, "Solving the routing problem of a collaborative fleet of ground and unmanned aerial vehicles for package delivery", Diploma Work, School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2025 https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.102313 | ||
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This thesis aims to study a collaborative routing model for ground electric vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) within the context of package delivery. This approach is aimed at transporting goods in a way that is both more efficient and ecologically sustainable, responding to the contemporary need to reduce atmospheric pollution. The proposed model defines the interaction between ground and aerial vehicles as follows: Ground vehicles will act as bases from which drones will be launched from designated parking spots. Subsequently, the drones will distribute the packages directly to neighboring recipients, avoiding the need to move over long distances (which is one of their main limitations), thus providing an efficient solution for delivery. The reduced energy consumption is mainly achieved because the drones carry smaller loads compared to a more conventional model with exclusive use of ground vehicles, which are heavier and transport almost all the packages over long distances. The thesis will focus on the development of an evolutionary algorithm that will take as parameters the data of the vehicle stopping points, the location and demand of the customers, as well as the ranges and capacity limits of the transport means, in order to propose an optimal route with the lowest possible energy consumption.
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