Abstract
In recent years, e-commerce businesses have seen an increase in the daily volume of packages to be delivered, as well as an increase in the number of particularly demanding customer expectations. In this respect, the delivery mechanism became prohibitively expensive, particularly for the final kilometer. To stay competitive and meet the increased demand, businesses began to look for innovative autonomous delivery options for the last mile, such as autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles/drones, which are a promising alternative for the logistics industry. Following the success of drones in surveillance and remote sensing, drone delivery systems have begun to emerge as a new solution to reduce delivery costs and delivery time. In the coming years, autonomous drone sharing systems will be an unavoidable logistical solution, especially with the new laws/recommendations introduced by the Flight World Organization on how to organize the operations of these special unmanned airline systems. This paper provides a comprehensive literature survey on a set of relevant research issues and highlights the representative solutions and concepts that have been proposed thus far in the design and modeling of the logistics of drone delivery systems, with the purpose of discussing the respective performance levels reached by the various suggested approaches. Furthermore, the paper also investigates the central problems to be addressed and briefly discusses and outlines a series of interesting new research avenues of relevance for drone-based package delivery systems.
Highlights
The logistics and transportation industries are experiencing a rapid growth, which is supported by a strong innovation evolution
Consumer expectations have risen; they expect the products they have purchased online to be delivered as soon as possible and at the lowest possible cost. This results in a situation such that the freight costs that companies must cover to deliver parcels to homes are progressively increasing year after year, as more and more parcels must be delivered to addresses spread across the city
Every logistics company that plans to deploy a drone delivery service is faced with many challenges and important issues, including how to achieve cost savings, how to operate drone fleets, how much reduction in decides expected delivery times could bestation achieved in the thebattery delivery process, the AD
Summary
The logistics and transportation industries are experiencing a rapid growth, which is supported by a strong innovation evolution. Every logistics company that plans to deploy a drone delivery service is faced with many challenges and important issues, including how to achieve cost savings, how to operate drone fleets, how much reduction in decides expected delivery times could bestation achieved in the thebattery delivery process, the AD whether to go to the recharging to swap (according to and its battery to the next to remain in itsdrones current location how to coordinate therange), scheduling ofrequested ground destination(s), vehicles andorautonomous to achieve a wait for the request (as depicted in Figure 1 below) These plans notwithstanding, the logistics related to delivering with drones is still.
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