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In this paper the Carrier-Vehicle Travelling Salesman Problem (CV-TSP) is extended to the case of 2 carriers and one small vehicle. The paper defines a minimum-time trajectory mission plan for the visit of a group of target points by the small vehicle. In this scenario, the main goal is to optimize the use of both carriers as a support of the vehicle. A Mixed-Integer Second Order Conic Programming (MISCOP) formulation is proposed for the case of a given order of visit. Additionally, the authors develop a fast heuristic which provides close to optimal results in a decent computational time. To end the paper several simulations are computed to show the effectiveness of the proposed solution.
This work has been supported by the European Commission under the Grant Agreement number 774571 (project PANTHEON- “Precision farming of hazelnut orchards”).
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Fahradyan, T., Bono Rossello, N., Garone, E. (2020). Multiple Carrier-Vehicle Travelling Salesman Problem. In: Mazal, J., Fagiolini, A., Vasik, P. (eds) Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems. MESAS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11995. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43890-6_14
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