EURO 2025 Leeds
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1098. Close-enough multi-UAV general routing problem for monitoring

Invited abstract in session MD-17: Drone Routing, stream Combinatorial Optimization.

Monday, 14:30-16:00
Room: Esther Simpson 2.08

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Michel Gendreau
MAGI and CIRRELT, Polytechnique Montréal
2. Huan Liu
School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Central South University
3. Guohua Wu
School of Automation, Central South University

Abstract

We introduce the Close-enough Multi-UAV General Routing Problem (CMUAVGRP), in which homogeneous UAVs perform monitoring tasks involving nodes with disk neighborhoods and edges, aiming to minimize the total travelled distance. A two-phase iterative method is proposed: first, a variable neighborhood descent is designed to generate routes excluding disk neighborhoods in a general routing phase, and, second, a second-order cone programming procedure is developed to optimize representative points for each required node in a close-enough routing phase. The two phases operate iteratively under an adaptive iterated local search framework until termination criteria are met. Extensive experiments demonstrate the efficiency of this two-phase algorithm and the superiority of disk neighborhoods.

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Status: accepted


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