Optimal Strategies of Autonomous Reconnaissance Missions

The role of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, in society continues to become more significant every day, both in everyday life and in military operations. The extent to which unmanned vehicles are used for both offensive as well as reconnaissance missions is at an all-time high. To expand the number of operational...

Machine and deep learning models for vehicle routing problems: a literature review

Vehicle routing problems (VRPs), a generalization of the traveling salesman problem, are extensively studied combinatorial optimization problems for their practical application. Many solution methods, e.g., exact and heuristic algorithms, have been proposed in the last few decades but require relatively much computation time due to the NP-hard...

The influence of a charging station’s location on its profitability [paper]

With the increasing number of electric vehicles onthe road, the routing problem has become morecomplex. As charging electric vehicles takes longerthan fueling non-electric vehicles, congestion canoccur at charging stations. This might lead to theshortest route not being the fastest route, due tolong waiting times at the stations. By commu...