Addressing the"last-kilometre"delivery challenge,unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)and ground vehicles collaborate effectively.However,limited UAV battery energy presents new challenges for air-ground cooperation.Hence,this paper proposes a heuristic air-ground path optimization method,comprehensively considering geography and UAV energy constraints.Firstly,a UAV energy model with multiple parameters is established.Then,constraints including UAV release locations and energy consumption are designed to form an optimization model with integer decision variables.Next,a Two-Stage Heuristic algorithm integrating particle swarm optimization is proposed by decoupling constraints.Finally,comparative experimental results with traditional Traveling Salesman Problem algorithm and Fixed-Range Simulated Annealing algorithm demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can reduce average delivery costs by 12%and 3%,respectively verifying the convergence and effectiveness of the algorithm.
关键词
无人机/路径优化/低空配送/空地协同配送/启发式算法/配送"最后一公里"/混合整数规划
Key words
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Path Optimization/Low-altitude Express Delivery/Collab-orative Distribution of Space and Land/Heuristic Algorithm/Last-kilometre Delivery/Mixed-integer Pro-gramming