Physics-aware Truck and Drone Delivery Planning Using Optimization & Machine Learning

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Combining an energy-efficient drone with a high-capacity truck for last-mile package delivery can benefit operators and customers by reducing delivery times and environmental impact. However, directly integrating drone flight dynamics into the combinatorially hard truck route planning problem is challenging. Simplified models that ignore drone flight physics can lead to suboptimal delivery plans. We propose an integrated formulation for the joint problem of truck route and drone trajectory plann

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