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Optimal Delivery with a Faulty Drone

Optimal Delivery with a Faulty Drone

  • cooperative-robots
  • online-algorithms
Jared Coleman, Evangelos Kranakis, Danny Krizanc, Oscar Morales-Ponce
37th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2025)
August 15, 2025
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Abstract

We introduce and study a new cooperative delivery problem inspired by drone-assisted package delivery. We consider a scenario where a drone, en route to deliver a package to a destination (a point on the plane), unexpectedly loses communication with its central command station. The command station cannot know whether the drone's system has wholly malfunctioned or merely experienced a communications failure. Consequently, a second, helper drone must be deployed to retrieve the package to ensure successful delivery. The central question of this study is to find the optimal trajectory for this second drone. We demonstrate that the optimal solution relies heavily on the relative spatial positioning of the command station, the destination point, and the last known location of the disconnected drone.


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