Modeling Internal Logistics by Using Drones on the Stage of Assembly of Products

Unmanned aerial vehicles/drones in vehicle routing problems: a literature review

“…In terms of internal logistics , it is currently observed that this application has only been investigated through product assembly within a manufacturing plant by Olivares et al. (2015) to minimize the energy consumed. Therefore, there exists a research opportunity by including different usages of the drones within a company, like the inventory management, and the loading and unloading of parcels from trucks.…”

“…Besides, this review also found different applications in humanitarian logistics to respond as fast as possible in emergency scenarios including natural disasters, human‐made disastrous incidents, or the delivery of medical supplies (Dorling et al., 2016; Zillies et al., 2016; Cannioto et al., 2017; Oruc and Kara, 2018; Chauhan et al., 2019). Furthermore, some publications also dealt with internal logistics processes of a company during the assembly of products (Olivares et al., 2015) or to gather information of air and soil for agricultural purposes (Tokekar et al., 2016). Likewise, some investigations focused on the usage of drones for the entertainment industry, specifically to film sports events such as car races or a live match transmission (Natalizio et al., 2013; Guerriero et al., 2014; Di Puglia et al., 2017).…”

“…The covered area optimization approaches were addressed to minimize the number of steps to visit the entire area (Rosalie et al., 2018), or to maximize the total area covered by the UAV routes, which is expressed as the clients’ demand maximization (Chauhan et al., 2019). Authors dealing with energy optimization focused on the reduction of energy/battery used while carrying weight in a specific capacitated problem (Olivares et al., 2015) or dealing with the optimization of the energy consumption efficiency while visiting waypoints and capture pictures of a terrain (Scott et al., 2016).…”

Methodology for Indoor Positioning and Landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in a Smart Manufacturing Plant for Light Part Delivery

“…Other uses, like a life-ring delivery system, are also present [24]. Of special interest in industry are the few studies related to the evaluation, design, simulation and modelling of a drone fleet for transporting materials in a manufacturing plant [25][26][27][28].…”

Testing vision picking technology in warehouse operations: Evidence from laboratory experiments

“…For that reason, a growing number of companies have turned their interest to digitalization by adopting logistics 4.0 technologies and smart applications along their business processes in order to handle the growing challenges of cost efficiency, flexibility, adaptability, stability, customer service, and sustainability [14,33]. This emerging trend of automation coupled with the use of advanced Information Technology (IT) systems and smart applications provides a wide range of opportunities and benefits for the logistics sector [15,16]. Especially, in order picking process the use of vision picking through smart glasses can support both time efficiency and picking accuracy [17].…”