Drones attract increasing attention in the last decades as a means for last mile delivery; they are mainly considered as supplement delivery tools that work jointly with trucks. In this paper, we develop a Covering Salesman Problem with Nodes and Segments Using Drones (CSPNS-D) and formulate...

This paper formulates a team orienteering problem with multiple fixed-wing drones and develops a branch-and-price algorithm to solve the problem to optimality. Fixed-wing drones, unlike rotary drones, have kinematic constraints associated with them, thereby preventing them to make on-the-spot...