Annals of Operations Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Feb. 17, 2025
Language: Английский
Advances in information security, privacy, and ethics book series, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 236 - 290
Published: Jan. 26, 2024
The widespread use of drones across various industries is leading to significant transformations. However, the resulting concerns about data security and privacy are quite significant. This section offers a thorough exploration these important issues, providing insights into challenges they pose potential ways address them. Starting with an overview increasing utility drones, this chapter highlights importance strong protocols for privacy. By examining complexities collection storage, it reveals different types that gather, delves storage techniques, vulnerabilities, setting stage effective countermeasures. At core discussion cybersecurity risks, which range from cyberattacks on drone systems unauthorized access tampering data. To sum up, serves as comprehensive guide understanding, addressing, mitigating related in operations.
Language: Английский
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Drones, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 9(3), P. 158 - 158
Published: Feb. 21, 2025
Last-mile delivery (LMD) is an important aspect of contemporary logistics that directly affects operational cost, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. In this paper, we provide a review the optimization techniques LMD, focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven decision-making, IoT-supported real-time monitoring, hybrid networks. The combination AI IoT improves predictive analytics, dynamic routing, fleet management, but scalability regulatory issues are still major concerns. Hybrid frameworks integrate drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), ground robots, conventional vehicles reduce energy expenditure increase range, especially in urban contexts. Furthermore, sustainable approaches, including electric vehicle fleets shared infrastructures, promise for minimizing environmental impact. However, economic viability, legal frameworks, infrastructure readiness influence feasibility large-scale adoption. This offers perspective changing patterns calling evolution, technological advancement, as well interdisciplinary approaches toward cost-effective, durable, environmentally friendly systems.
Language: Английский
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Composites Part C Open Access, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12, P. 100418 - 100418
Published: Oct. 1, 2023
As drone technology grows in popularity, its application to automate aspects of society is increasing at a similar rate, where drones are now being trialled for delivering payloads over short distances. In order progress the technology, 3D composite printing used develop complicated parts improved aerodynamic design that can be produced efficiently, resultant part has high specific strength and rigidity. This article reports strength, high-temperature Polyamide 6 (Onyx), continuous glass-fibre reinforced Onyx, carbon-fibre Onyx composites characterising their mechanical fracture behaviour. The + CF displayed up 1243 % 1344 improvement Young's modulus tensile neat samples. flexural samples was 316.6 higher than sample. SEM micrographs showed strong bond between hydration products carbon fibres, strengths by preventing micro-crack propagation through fibre pull-out breaking. statistical analysis conducted ensure validity results population establish stress-strain relations, along with estimating errors. addition, carbon-fibre-reinforced compared commercially alternatives producing components. Finally, finite element model developed using numerical homogenisation approach validated predict behaviour study provides direction next generation manufacturers.
Language: Английский
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31
ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 1(3), P. 1 - 40
Published: Feb. 21, 2024
The rising popularity of drones significantly impacts package delivery services, offering both unique opportunities and challenges. This survey explores the diverse applications for last-mile deliveries, highlighting their capacity to access remote areas create new business prospects. Use cases, ranging from critical medical deliveries addressing COVID-19 pandemic needs, underscore transformative potential drone technology. While recognizing drones’ eco-friendly attributes in eliminating harmful gas emissions, addresses battery constraints, necessitating an investigation into physical energy models extend flight autonomy. becomes crucial operational capabilities, especially adverse weather conditions. A reliable communication infrastructure is success operations delivery, during unexpected events, as seamless connectivity plays a key role facilitating efficient control monitoring between ground stations drones. enables dynamic rerouting, enhancing overall reliability. innovative approaches, including collaborations with other vehicles like trucks, trains, buses, optimizing process. Despite potential, concerns about privacy, security, safety, risk management are acknowledged. work also emphasizes responsible ethical implementation, considering associated widespread adoption. In contrast existing articles focused on specific technical aspects, this comprehensive broadens its scope. It covers issues, sustainability healthcare systems, physics models, communications, security safety concerns, real test-beds drone-based systems. not only identifies tackles challenges but integrates broader considerations. addition, extensively motivations, lessons learned, future directions realm delivery. Analyzing literature, it provides valuable insights researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, stakeholders keen understanding evolution technology domain.
Language: Английский
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IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 70(1), P. 3885 - 3897
Published: Jan. 17, 2024
AI-enabled logistics unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are progressively revealing their unique advantages for future smart cities. Nevertheless, the existing research on UAV path planning lacks to simultaneously consider energy consumption constraints, customer time windows, impacts of wind speed and direction. This omission renders models inappropriate real-world transportation systems. Besides, UAVs still constrained by limited payload battery due highly automatic delivery process. Consequently, we investigate effect direction flight states, establishes pertinent parameters resolution methods impacted conditions, delves into issue that concurrently considers impact conditions. To resolve proposed trajectory optimization issue, large-scale neighborhood search algorithm (LNS) is amalgamated with genetic (GA), forming GA-LNS, address static problem, while dynamic concepts employed in decoding process GA-LNS solve problem. Simulation results demonstrate devised algorithms yield superior solutions within a plausible timeframe, reducing distribution costs approximately 9% comparison conventional GA. Unlike no-wind scenarios, incorporates conditions circumvents issues related constraints satisfaction bias evident prior cases. Furthermore, can provide high-efficiency, low-energy-consumption, low-delay strategy scenario UAV-assisted data collection.
Language: Английский
Citations
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Sensors, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 24(10), P. 3064 - 3064
Published: May 11, 2024
The evolving technologies regarding Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have led to their extended applicability in diverse domains, including surveillance, commerce, military, and smart electric grid monitoring. Modern UAV avionics enable precise aircraft operations through autonomous navigation, obstacle identification, collision prevention. structures of are generally complex, thorough hierarchies intricate connections exist between. For a comprehensive understanding design, this paper aims assess critically review the purpose-classified electronics hardware inside UAVs, each with corresponding performance metrics thoroughly analyzed. This includes an exploration different algorithms used for data processing, flight control, protection, communication. Consequently, enriches knowledge base offering informative background on various design processes, particularly those related applications. As future work recommendation, actual relevant project is openly discussed.
Language: Английский
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Sensors, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 24(4), P. 1205 - 1205
Published: Feb. 13, 2024
This article aims to present the results of a bibliometric analysis relevant literature and discuss main research streams related topic risks in drone applications. The methodology conducted consisted five procedural steps, including planning research, conducting systematic review literature, proposing classification framework corresponding contemporary trends risk applications, compiling characteristics publications assigned each highlighted thematic groups. used PRISMA method. A total 257 documents comprising articles conference proceedings were analysed. On this basis, eight categories use drones associated with their operation distinguished. Due high content within two these categories, further division into subcategories was proposed illustrate topics better. investigation made it possible identify current pointed out existing gaps, both area assessment its application areas. obtained from can provide interesting material for industry academia.
Language: Английский
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Vehicles, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6(3), P. 1383 - 1414
Published: Aug. 12, 2024
Urban air mobility (UAM) is a revolutionary approach to transportation in densely populated cities. UAM involves using small, highly automated aircraft transport passengers and goods at lower altitudes within urban suburban areas, aiming transform how people parcels move these environments. On average, can reduce travel times by 30% 40% for point-to-point journeys, with even greater reductions of 50% major cities the United States China, compared land transport. includes advanced airborne options like electric vertical takeoff landing (eVTOL) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones). These technologies offer potential ease traffic congestion, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, substantially cut areas. Studying applications eVTOLs UAVs parcel delivery passenger poses intricate challenges when examined through lens operations research (OR). By OR approaches, we mean mathematical programming, models, solution methods addressing eVTOL- UAV-aided parcel/people problems. Despite academic practical importance, there no review paper on UAV-based optimization problems sector. The present paper, applying systematic literature review, develops classification scheme problems, dividing them into routing scheduling UAVs, infrastructure planning, safety security, trade-off between efficiency sustainability. methodologies characteristics proposed each problem are discussed. Finally, study gaps future directions presented alongside concluding remarks.
Language: Английский
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Decision Making Advances, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2(1), P. 73 - 82
Published: Feb. 12, 2024
The development of electronic commerce has resulted in an increase the number shipments their transfer systems. Delivery companies strive to respond emerging situations, meet customer needs, and achieve profit through optimization operations. imperative is establish a delivery system that line with principles sustainable development. This paper defines task choosing model for shipment proposes AROMAN method its resolution. applicability proposed demonstrated by solving defined territory city Belgrade.
Language: Английский
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Drones, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 8(6), P. 233 - 233
Published: May 30, 2024
Using Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to monitor the condition of nodal transportation assets—airports, seaports, heliports, vertiports, and cargo terminals—presents a transformative approach traditional inspection methods. The focus on assets rather than linear like roads, railways, bridges, waterways fills gap in addressing dynamic challenges specific hubs. This study reviews scholarly literature applying UAV-based remote sensing (URS) techniques assess various hubs, which are critical junctures global logistics networks. Utilizing systematic review framework, this reviewed 486 publications from 2015 2023 extract insights evolving discourse URS applications. findings suggest that these emerging methods resulted substantial enhancements time saving, cost efficiency, safety, reliability. Specifically, presents evidence how approaches can overcome constraints conventional by enabling rapid, high-precision mapping surveillance complex constrained environments. highlight role UAVs enhancing operational workflows decision making planning maintenance. By bridging between practices innovative technology, research offers significant implications for stakeholders field, advocating shift towards more dynamic, cost-effective, precise asset management strategies.
Language: Английский
Citations
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