Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2443 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144331)
Principal Investigator: Bhuiyan, Tanveer Hossain
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 79,326
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 1/1/23 - 9/30/23
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Engineering and Integrated Design
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Ctr For Adv Mfg & Lean Systems
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Optimizing Mixed-fleet of Drones and Ground Vehicles for Efficient Delivery of Time-Sensitive Products
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho National Laboratory)
CFDA: 0
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1 and 1.1.4; This research project seeks to model how to efficiently deploy a hybrid fleet of ground vehicles and aerial drones for the direct delivery of goods (e.g., prepared food) from a central depot (e.g., retail business location) to the customers maintaining a specified pickup time window requirement. Both aerial drones and ground vehicles are stationed at the central depot. Ground vehicles are used to deliver the products when a drone-based delivery is not possible for some locations due to several reasons, such as delivery locations being outside the delivery range of drones, package weight exceeding the drones weight-carrying capacity, and weather (e.g., strong wind gust) preventing delivery by drones. They may also be used to create a more efficient delivery schedule. The optimization tool development will help take the modelling and optimization methods and prepare them as part of a tool to create effective routing and scheduling for actual deployment by industry partners.
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