The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) delivery service is being increasingly used in logistics. However, it challenging for a UAV to precisely identify the position parcel delivering if only aided by GPS, especially some complex environments with weak signals and high interference. For this issue, we present knowledge distillation empowered edge intelligence architecture, KeepEdge, achieve visual...

Background: UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and SUGVs (Sidewalk Unmanned Ground are two prominent options to revolutionize last mile home delivery. However, there is no literature yet addressing a comprehensive assessment of them. To bridge this research gap, paper aimed compare in the context urban parcel delivery from practical, conceptual, technological, commercial, environmental perspective...

This article relates a still-popular motivation for using parceling to an unrecognized cost. The stillpopular motivation is improvement in fit with respect to the item-solution. The cost is uncertainty in fit due to the selection of one out of many possible item-to-parcel allocations. A theoretical framework establishes the reason for this relationship: The same mechanisms that cause larger ite...

In response to the widespread concern about the adequacy, distribution, and disparity of access to a health care workforce, the correct identification of physicians' practice locations is critical to access public health services. In prior literature, little effort has been made to detect and resolve the uncertainty about whether the address provided by a physician in the survey is a practice a...

Commercial aviation distinguishes three indicators for third party risk (TPR): i) Expected number of ground fatalities per aircraft flight hour; ii) Individual risk; and iii) Societal risk. The latter two stem from TPR posed to population by operation hazardous installations. Literature on Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations have focused the development first indicator. However expected i...

In recent months, online sales have experienced a sharp surge also due to the COVID pandemic. this paper, we propose new location and routing problem for last mile delivery service based on parcel lockers introduce mathematical formulation solve it by means of MIP solver (Gurobi). The presence locker stations avoids door-to-door companies but requires that consumers move from home collect their...

this paper aims at analyzing farmers’ responses on quality of agricultural information services provided by public and private sources. the study is based on primary survey of 461 farmers in eight districts of uttar pradesh, india, using a structured questionnaire. farmers’ responses on quality of agricultural information services from public and private sources were analyzed using analysis of ...