This research project deals with the exact and heuristic resolution of optimization problems related to vehicle routing and scheduling. The VRPs studied are associated with problems involving: (i) pickup and delivery, including those related to the rebalancing of bike sharing systems; (ii) routing and trajectory optimization of unmanned aerial vehicles; (iii) variants with multiple attributes […]
In the past few years, the development of computer technology together with methodological advances in Operations Research has motivated the investigation of more complex variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem. These variants are often inspired by real-world applications and they often include challenging objective functions and constraints. In the literature, such problems are referred to […]
The field of robotics is vast, in particular Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems (RMFS). While the industrial area already has implementations in this type of system and there are several studies that analyze the use of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), RMFS (which is also based on the same concept as AGVs) is focused on the use […]
This project aims to create a robust and efficient navigation system for multi-copters (Drones or UAVs) to perform autonomous flights in confined but partially known environments. The flight test is carried out at the Latin-American Robotics Competition annually, as well as within the LASER. The flight height of the Drone can be estimated by embedded […]
