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arXiv:2108.06056 (cs)
[Submitted on 13 Aug 2021]

Title:Package Delivery Using Autonomous Drones in Skyways

Authors:Woojin Lee, Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzaad, Athman Bouguettaya
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Abstract:Current drone delivery systems mostly focus on point-to-point package delivery. We present a multi-stop drone service system to deliver packages anywhere anytime within a specified geographic area. We define a skyway network which takes into account flying regulations, including restricted areas and no-fly zones. The skyway nodes typically represent building rooftops which may act as both recharging stations and delivery destinations. A heuristic-based A* algorithm is used to compute an optimal path from source to destination taking into account a number of constraints, including delivery time, availability of recharging stations, etc. We deploy our drone delivery system in an indoor testbed environment using a 3D model of Sydney CBD. We describe a graphical user interface to monitor the real-time package delivery in the skyway network.
Comments: 2 pages, 5 figures. This is an accepted demo paper and it is going to appear in the Proceedings of 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp21)
Subjects: Robotics (cs.RO)
Cite as: arXiv:2108.06056 [cs.RO]
  (or arXiv:2108.06056v1 [cs.RO] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2108.06056

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From: Balsam Alkouz [view email]
[v1] Fri, 13 Aug 2021 04:24:27 UTC (10,479 KB)
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