Minimizing energy and cost in range-limited drone deliveries with speed optimization

This paper introduces the Energy Minimizing and Range Constrained Drone Delivery Problem (ERDDP) in which drones are used to make deliveries a number of customers themselves transported by traditional vehicles that act as launch points. The ERDDP consists (i) selecting points from potential set sites where will take off serve customers, (ii) assignments points, (iii) speed at travel between presents nonlinear model for ERDDP, minimizes total operational cost including an explicit calculation energy consumption drone function speed. limited both service time bound range drone. is reformulated using second order cone programming, subsequently strengthened use perspective cuts, allows off-the-shelf optimization software solve problem. Computational results presented on realistic data quantifies effect various parameters location, assignment decisions.