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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"drone delivery"”.
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A metaheuristic approach to optimizing a multimodal truck and drone delivery system
… of e-commerce continues to push the bounds of delivery services as customers expect near instant fulfillment at little additional cost. This demand for delivery performance and operational cost efficiency has led to the exploration of the last-mile delivery problem using creative multimodal …
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An Analysis of the Factors Affecting Attitudes toward Drone Delivery and the Moderating Effect of COVID-19
… explored the factors affecting attitudes toward drone delivery and the moderating effect of COVID-19. Government effort to address the COVID-19 pandemic has led to social distancing and shelter-in-place guidelines. Many states have imposed additional regulations, restricting retailers from …
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Trust, Transparency, and Transport: The Impact of Privacy Protection on the Acceptance of Last-Mile Drone Delivery
<p>A common set of problems commercial delivery companies face is finding ways to increase the efficiency and reliability of the “last mile” of a package’s journey, all while reducing operating costs. This need for efficiency has driven many companies to explore using unmanned aerial vehicles …
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Human Factors in Drone Delivery of Automatic External Defibrillators for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Older Adult Considerations
… External Defibrillators (AED) delivered by drone have the potential to improve survival rates of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests (OHCA) due to earlier access to defibrillation. There is a lack of user-centred, and older adult-focused research in this area. The present study evaluated the …
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Control and estimation strategies for autonomous MAV landing on a moving platform in turbulent wind conditions
… autonomous MAVs are promising in the field of drone delivery due to their scalability, deployability, and low cost compared to traditional ground delivery. Hybrid systems, which combine MAVs taking off and landing from/to trucks and the ground vehicles themselves to increase package delivery …
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Privacy Risk Mitigation Strategies for Drone Package Delivery
Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are increasingly used to deliver goods. In an emerging business model, a drone operator partners with multiple businesses to offer drone delivery as a service. Due to regulations requiring drones to broadcast position information, this business model …
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Enhancing Delivery of Operations by Optimizing the Omni-Channel Supply Chain through Delivery as a Service
The need for delivery grew significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic because people avoided activities in public to limit the spread of the virus. The purpose of this research was to evaluate how the pandemic influenced many individual's delivery preferences through the administration of a stated …
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Successes and Challenges in Implementing Food-insecurity Interventions: A Descriptive Case Study of Feeding America Food Banks in Kentucky
… apps, Blockchain donation tracking, and drone delivery. However, the solution’s substantial financial and human resource requirements necessitate the national Feeding America organization's support of its local food banks during execution. Successful implementation of this solution will …
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Safe, intelligent and explainable self-adaptive systems
… smart temperature control system, an autonomous drone delivery system and a self-organizing production system. With our framework, we support the design of systems that are flexible enough to deal with dynamically changing operation contexts, and, at the same time, provide safety assurances and …
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Leveraging Next Generation Mobile Networks for Drone Telemetry and Payload Communication
… Such use cases include but are not limited to drone delivery, precision agriculture, search and rescue and surveillance. As the adoption continues to increase, so do the use cases and drone applications. However, drones have much more to offer, and their capabilities are not to be limited to …
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Security of Cyber-Physical Systems with Human Actors: Theoretical Foundations, Game Theory, and Bounded Rationality
… application domains: the smart electric grid and drone systems. In smart grids, first, a novel analytical framework is developed which generalizes the analysis of a wide set of security attacks targeting the state estimator of the power grid, including observability and data injection attacks. …
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Improving Approximate and Exact Approaches Based on Decision Diagrams and Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization
… exploit state dominance relations for solving a Drone Delivery Scheduling problem. Furthermore, we extend the DP models to FPTAS, providing efficient approximate solutions with provable guarantees. % to prune the search space Overall, this dissertation contributes to both the theoretical and …
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Hybrid Concurrent Planning with Heterogeneous Robot Teams for Timed Goals
… occupied space, such as a cooperative truck-and-drone delivery system and smart warehouse. In these scenarios, we need not only to assign timed goals to robots but also plan all the robots to achieve these goals. Planning and coordinating for robot teams to complete multiple timed goals in a long …
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Stochastic models for analysis and optimization of unmanned aerial vehicle delivery on last-mile logistics
… issues, using unmanned aerial vehicles such as drones for package delivery in last-mile logistics becomes increasingly attractive. However, there are several significant obstacles in terms of technical aspects and performance capabilities of drones like limited flight coverage. In addition, …
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Novel Technology Perspectives for Urban Air Mobility Applications
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment