The Drone Scheduling Problem: A Systematic State-of-the-Art Review

The Drone Scheduling Problem: A Systematic State-of-the-Art Review

Drones are receiving popularity with time due to their advanced mobility. Although they were initially deployed for military purposes, they now have a wide array of applications in various public and private sectors. Further deployment of drones can promote the global economic recovery from the COVI...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems Vol. 23; no. 9; pp. 14224 - 14247
Main Authors: Pasha, Junayed, Elmi, Zeinab, Purkayastha, Sumit, Fathollahi-Fard, Amir M., Ge, Ying-En, Lau, Yui-Yip, Dulebenets, Maxim A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01-09-2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Autonomous aerial vehicles
Batteries
Carrying capacity
Costs
Delivery scheduling
Drone delivery
drone recharge
drone scheduling
Drones
Engines
flight path
Literature reviews
monitoring
Optimization
Rechargeable batteries
Recharging
Schedules
Scheduling
State-of-the-art reviews
Systematics
Transportation
UAV
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Summary:Drones are receiving popularity with time due to their advanced mobility. Although they were initially deployed for military purposes, they now have a wide array of applications in various public and private sectors. Further deployment of drones can promote the global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though drones offer a number of advantages, they have limited flying time and weight carrying capacity. Effective drone schedules may assist with overcoming such limitations. Drone scheduling is associated with optimization of drone flight paths and may include other features, such as determination of arrival time at each node, utilization of drones, battery capacity considerations, and battery recharging considerations. A number of studies on drone scheduling have been published over the past years. However, there is a lack of a systematic literature survey that provides a holistic overview of the drone scheduling problem, existing tendencies, main research limitations, and future research needs. Therefore, this study conducts an extensive survey of the scientific literature that assessed drone scheduling. The collected studies are grouped into different categories, including general drone scheduling, drone scheduling for delivery of goods, drone scheduling for monitoring, and drone scheduling with recharge considerations. A detailed review of the collected studies is presented for each of the categories. Representative mathematical models are provided for each category of studies, accompanied by a summary of findings, existing gaps in the state-of-the-art, and future research needs. The outcomes of this research are expected to assist the relevant stakeholders with an effective drone schedule design.
ISSN:1524-9050
1558-0016
DOI:10.1109/TITS.2022.3155072