3 papers
cs.AI2026
Drive, Pack, Fly: The Travelling Thief Problem with Drone
Kabir Murjani, Abhay Sobhanan
In collection operations, accumulating payload progressively slows the vehicle, imposing a cumulative penalty on routing efficiency. An onboard drone can offset this penalty by ret…
cs.LG2026
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Battery Management of Autonomous Order Pickers
Taniya Shaji, Abhay Sobhanan, Christof Defryn
Battery charging of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in warehouses is a critical operational challenge that heavily impacts both order processing times and throughput. In this study…
cs.NE2025
Arc Routing Problems with Multiple Trucks and Drones: A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm
Abhay Sobhanan, Hadi Charkhgard, Changhyun Kwon
Arc-routing problems underpin numerous critical field operations, including power-line inspection, urban police patrolling, and traffic monitoring. In this domain, the Rural Postma…