174 research outputs found
Drone Delivery Optimization
This research has addressed three critical challenges inherent in the
implementation of drone delivery systems, namely, optimizing battery charging
station placement, solving the shortest path problem for drones within their
single battery charge travel distance, and efficiently scheduling multiple
drones across numerous warehouses and delivery locations with diverse demands.
The study has leveraged a 2D grid model with obstacles, providing a practical
foundation extendable to a 3D grid for accommodating complex structures. For
battery station placement, the Miller-Tucker-Zemlin subtour elimination method
has been applied to avoid the formation of charging station clusters. Future
research directions involve the integration of these cases into a holistic
solution, exploration of three-dimensional space, and the pursuit of bi-level
optimization considering the interdependence of battery station placement and
shortest path determination. This study contributes to the emerging field of
drone delivery systems by addressing key optimization challenges and paving the
way for comprehensive, integrated solutions
Approximating the Held-Karp Bound for Metric TSP in Nearly Linear Time
We give a nearly linear time randomized approximation scheme for the
Held-Karp bound [Held and Karp, 1970] for metric TSP. Formally, given an
undirected edge-weighted graph on edges and , the
algorithm outputs in time, with high probability, a
-approximation to the Held-Karp bound on the metric TSP instance
induced by the shortest path metric on . The algorithm can also be used to
output a corresponding solution to the Subtour Elimination LP. We substantially
improve upon the running time achieved previously
by Garg and Khandekar. The LP solution can be used to obtain a fast randomized
-approximation for metric TSP which improves
upon the running time of previous implementations of Christofides' algorithm
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