A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for a Team Orienteering Problem with Fixed-Wing Drones
| Autor: | Sundar, Kaarthik, Sanjeevi, Sujeevraja, Montez, Christopher |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | 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 turns and restricting them to a minimum turn radius. This paper presents the implications of these constraints on the drone routing problem formulation and proposes a systematic technique to address them in the context of the team orienteering problem. Furthermore, a novel branch-and-price algorithm with branching techniques specific to the constraints imposed due to fixed-wing drones are proposed. Extensive computational experiments on benchmark instances corroborating the effectiveness of the algorithms are also presented. Comment: 24 pages including references |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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